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tant trust committed to your care; your whole time has been faithfully devoted to the public service; and I may venture to assert, that at no session of the Legislature since the formation of our State government has so much business been performed. Measures of great importance, too, have been adopted, and such as we all ardently desire may result to the best interests of the entire State; whether they will fully accomplished the great and desirable objects for which they were intended, cannot at present be satisfactorily determined, yet I entertain no doubt but the people of the Wabash counties on the east, the Ohio on the south, the Mississippi on the west, the Lake on the north, as well as those of the interior will ultimately be benefitted by your legislative labors.

Political controversy has been but seldom indulged in during the ses sion; the legitimate business of legislation has been rarely interrupted by mere declamation.

So far as I am concerned, as your presiding officer, although differing in political opinions with many of you, I have received throughout the session kindness and courtesy from all, and can truly declare, that no expression or act of yours has left any rankling in my bosom, but on the contrary, you will each of you return to your constituents, your families, and friends with my best wishes for your continued prosperity and happi

ness.

In commencing the labors of the session, I had serious doubts that a want of experience might occasionally lead me estray, I have, however, endeavored to discharge my duty faithfully, and if have succeeded with as much satisfaction to the Senate as they so recently have unanimously expressed, I have attained to the highest and proudest desires of my heart.

ISAAC S. BERRY,

Secretary of the Senate.

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and seminaries of learning

Acts, to amend acts therein named

Adams county. See Counties.

Adjournment sine die

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85, 98, 127

200, 210, 298, 404, 429
77, 86, 127, 139, 229, 234
331, 364, 387, 395, 426, 429

470, 506, 526

337

357, 383, 523, 531, 533, 534

Agricultural Society, Union 252, 280, 283, 318, 390, 397, 409, 480, 499

Lamoille. See Associations.

Alexander county. See Petitions.

Alton and Mount Carmel Railroad. See Railroads.

Apple river. See Rivers.

Apportionment of representation 61, 64, 74, 78, 85, 119, 239, 243, 272,

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Appropriations, certain moneys to meet contingencies
certain property to pay State debts

285, 291, 292
299, 324

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158

for 1843-4 454, 460, 485, 489, 491, 493, 496, 513, 525

supplement

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525

232, 235, 241

239, 284

480, 506, 526

Associations, Naperville Cemetery

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470, 505, 526

533

Oak Grove Cemetery 272, 280, 304, 328, 379, 295, 415, 424
Asylum, Illinois Deaf and Dumb, report from President
Attachment law 110, 167, 170, 185, 217, 239, 243, 244, 284, 394, 430
Attorneys, State's, appointment of
63, 74, 89, 103, 105, 140, 167

to elect

Attorneys and counsellors at law

Auditors, board of, to settle accounts with R. F. Barret,

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140, 194

471,490

422, 454

32, 58, 87, 323, 339

59

486, 509

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Banks, State Bank of Illinois, communications from President 209, 225

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State Bank and Bank of Illinois
Cairo Bank, to repeal charter

commissioners to appoint

471, 506, 524

64, 75, 86, 507, 509, 510, 512
507,508

paper, to prohibit reception of for revenue

Barnett, Robert F., attended

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58, 69, 100, 101, 190, 238

327

4

306

88, 206, 251
393, 452, 497

See Relief.

Benefit. See Relief.

Benton county. See counties.

Berry, Isaac Shelby, elected Secretary. See Elections.

leave

Bills of exchange and promissory notes

253

110

Births and deaths, voluntary mode of registering 369, 466, 476, 503,527,

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Boyer, Frederick. See Estates.

historical essay

Bridges, Cleaveland, H. W.

Dixon Company

Breese, Hon. Sidney, elected United States Senator. See Elections.

252, 286, 291
444, 476

149

Embarrass river, stone pier under

239, 279, 282

Pickatonica river, in Stephenson county

369, 391, 455

Rock river

185, 215, 234, 249, 269, 369, 376, 419, 448

Company

340, 417, 482

free

346, 364, 395, 414, 424

Rockford

369, 418, 429

toll

285, 295, 299

232

Sangamon river 471, 492, 497, 499, 501, 503, 523,525, 530,531,

Shoal Creek

241, 272, 313, 388

Stephenson county, commissioners court to assess tolls 471, 490

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Canal, Illinois and Michigan, completion of 124, 155, 235, 236, 309, 339,
344, 345, 348, 352, 353, 354, 361, 362, 367, 375, 377, 381, 382, 383

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Canal round Des Moines and Rock river rapids. See Rivers,

Carlyle. See Towns.

Carpenter, Milton, elected State Treasurer. See Elections.
Carroll county. See Petitions.

Cass county. See Counties.

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