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Lincoln writes and signs Samuel Rogers' name to Rogers' bill as trustee of school section. Photocopy.

[Lincoln is allowed $15 as surveyor and $2.50 for making plat of road from Musick's Ferry on Salt Creek via New Salem to county line in direction of Jacksonville. Report of Lincoln, Michael Killian and Hugh Armstrong is accepted. Armstrong is granted $3.75 for five days as axeman and John A. Kelso and Robert Lloyd same amount as chainmen. Record D, 82.]



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Lincoln signs receipt for clerk of County Commissioners Court: "Recd of C. R. Matheny Clerk $10.00 deposited by me at the last term [Mar. 3] of com. court on application for a road." IHi—Original.

[Lincoln is appointed by County Commissioners' Court "to survey the road from Athens to Sangamo Town in place of Charles Winn and that the viewers have to next court to make their report." Record D, 91.]



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Dr. Charles Chandler, for whom Chandlerville, Illinois is named, overtakes Lincoln on way to Springfield. Dr. Chandler is hurrying to land office to enter 80 acres ahead of Henry Ingalls. [Some time later Lincoln surveys this land for Dr. Chandler, and also farm for Ingalls adjoining Chandlerville.] IHi—Journal, XXIV, 438; XXVIII, 282.


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         <dateline>
            <date value='1834-06-02'>Monday, June 2, 1834.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place> (?)
         </dateline>
         <p> Lincoln writes and signs Samuel Rogers' name to Rogers' bill as trustee of
            school section.<bibl default='NO'>Photocopy.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> [Lincoln is allowed $15 as surveyor and $2.50 for making plat of road from
            Musick's Ferry on Salt Creek via New Salem to county line in direction of Jacksonville.
            Report of Lincoln, Michael Killian and Hugh Armstrong is accepted. Armstrong is granted
            $3.75 for five days as axeman and John A. Kelso and Robert Lloyd same amount as
               chainmen.<bibl default='NO'>Record D, 82.</bibl>]</p>
      </div2>

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         <dateline> 
            <date value='1834-06-03'>Tuesday,
  June 3, 1834.</date> 
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln signs receipt for clerk of County Commissioners Court:
  "Recd of C. R. Matheny Clerk $10.00 deposited by me at the last term [Mar. 3]
  of com. court on application for a road."<bibl default='NO'>IHi&#8212;Original.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> [Lincoln is
  appointed by County Commissioners' Court "to survey the road from Athens to
  Sangamo Town in place of Charles Winn and that the viewers have to next court
  to make their report."<bibl default='NO'>Record D,
  91.</bibl>]</p>
      </div2>

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         <dateline>
            <date value='1834-06-04'>Wednesday, June 4, 1834.</date>
            <place key='39.9788, -89.8420' teiForm='name'>New Salem, IL</place> and <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield,
            IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Dr. Charles Chandler, for whom Chandlerville, Illinois is named, overtakes
            Lincoln on way to Springfield. Dr. Chandler is hurrying to land office to enter 80 acres
            ahead of Henry Ingalls. [Some time later Lincoln surveys this land for Dr. Chandler, and
            also farm for Ingalls adjoining Chandlerville.]<bibl default='NO'>IHi&#8212;<title>Journal</title>, XXIV, 438; XXVIII,
            282.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

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