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         <dateline>
            <date value='1836-08-01'>Monday, August 1, 1836.</date>
            <place key='39.9788, -89.8420' teiForm='name'>New Salem, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln receives highest vote of 17 legislative candidates. In New Salem he
            gets 107 votes, 23 more than any other candidate. He leads in Athens and is third in
            Springfield, receiving 783 votes to 798 for Edwards and 811 for W. F. Elkin. Lincoln
            votes for Whigs, including John T. Stuart, who is defeated for Congress by William L.
               May.<bibl default='NO'>Election Returns.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

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         <dateline>
            <date value='1836-08-02'>Tuesday, August 2, 1836.</date>
            <place key='39.9788, -89.8420' teiForm='name'>New Salem, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln is one of 132 signers of petition to county commissioners court
            asking for "scrapers" on public roads to encourage labor and "facilitate, cheapen and
            comfort the business and traveling public." New "road tax to be levied this fall will
            produce more labor."<bibl default='NO'>IHi&#8212;Original.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

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         <dateline>
            <date value='1836-08-22'>Monday, August 22, 1836.</date>
            <place key='39.9788, -89.8420' teiForm='name'>New Salem, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln writes and attests will of Joshua Short, farmer of New Salem
               area.<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln1;node=lincoln1%3A80' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Will of Joshua Short</xref>,
               22 August 1836, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>,
            1:51.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>