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<date value='1837-03-01'>Wednesday, March 1, 1837.</date>
<place key='38.9500, -89.0833' teiForm='name'>Vandalia, IL</place>.</dateline>
<p> Lincoln votes with majority to pass bill increasing by $2,000,000 capital
stock of Bank of Illinois at Springfield, and also to pass "act for the relief of
persons in cases of ejectment." His name is entered on roll of attorneys in office of
Supreme Court clerk.<bibl default='NO'>
<title>House Journal</title>; Record.</bibl>
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<date value='1837-03-02'>Thursday, March 2, 1837.</date>
<place key='38.9500, -89.0833' teiForm='name'>Vandalia, IL</place>.</dateline>
<p> Lincoln votes with majority, 55 to 17, to pass act clarifying internal
improvement act. Amended act regulates sale of bonds, and pledges credit of state to pay
principal and interest. Lincoln votes with majority to pass bill distributing school
fund.<bibl default='NO'>
<title>House Journal</title>.</bibl>
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<date value='1837-03-03'>Friday, March 3, 1837.</date>
<place key='38.9500, -89.0833' teiForm='name'>Vandalia, IL</place>.</dateline>
<p> Lincoln and Dan Stone of Sangamon protest antiabolitionist resolutions
adopted January 20, 1837. Difference between their views and those expressed by House
was moral—injustice of slavery. They declare that "promulgation of abolition
doctrines tends rather to increase than abate" evils of slavery. Protest is made part of
"House Journal."<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%3A101' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Protest in Illinois
Legislature on Slavery</xref>, 3 March 1837, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 1:74-76.</bibl>
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<date value='1837-03-04'>Saturday,
March 4, 1837.</date>
<place key='38.9500, -89.0833' teiForm='name'>Vandalia, IL</place>.</dateline>
<p> Lincoln and Senator Browning are tellers of election which
results in choice of Thomas Ford as judge of circuit which includes Chicago. E.
C. Berry is elected president of Bank of Vandalia. Lincoln is one of 51 signers
of $50,000 bond of Charles Oakley as fund commissioner appointed under internal
improvement act.<bibl default='NO'>
<title>House
Journal</title>; Photocopy;
<xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln1;node=lincoln1%3A102' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Bond for Charles Oakley as
Fund Commissioner</xref>, 4 March 1837,
<title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 1:76.</bibl>
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<date value='1837-03-06'>Monday, March 6, 1837.</date>
<place key='38.9500, -89.0833' teiForm='name'>Vandalia, IL</place>.</dateline>
<p> House meets and adjourns sine die.<bibl default='NO'>
<title>House Journal</title>.</bibl>
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<dateRange from='1837-03-07' to='1837-03-08'>March 7, 1837-March 8,
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<place key='' teiForm='name'>En route</place> to <place key='39.9788, -89.8420' teiForm='name'>New Salem,
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<date value='1837-03-13'>Monday, March 13, 1837.</date>
<place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
<p> Spring term of Sangamon Circuit Court opens. Judge Dan Stone of sixth
circuit presides by agreement with Stephen T. Logan, judge of first circuit.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
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<date value='1837-03-14'>Tuesday, March 14, 1837.</date>
<place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
<p> Lincoln represents David Woldridge in two cases. In <name type='case' key='L03505'>Hawthorn v. Woldridge</name>, an assumpsit case, the
parties reach an agreement in which the court dismisses the case and the defendant pays
all court costs. In <name type='case' key='L03506'>Woldridge v.
Hawthorn</name>, a trespass vi et armis case, the parties reach an agreement where the
court dismisses the case and they each pay half the court costs.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
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<date value='1837-03-15'>Wednesday, March 15, 1837.</date>
<place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
<p> Stuart & Lincoln have three cases in the Sangamon County Circuit
Court. In two of the cases, Lincoln defends his New Salem friends, Felix Green and
Tarleton Lloyd. In <name type='case' key='L04723'>Torrey v. Green</name>,
an assumpsit case, the plaintiff seeks $250 in damages. In <name type='case' key='L04721'>Torrey v. Lloyd</name>, an assumpsit case, the plaintiff
seeks $200 in damages. Stuart & Lincoln also represent the defendant, Nicholas
Sintz, in <name type='case' key='L04080'>Demint et al. v. Sintz</name>, a
trespass on the case action where the plaintiff seeks $1,000 in damages. In all three
cases the court orders the defendants to file pleas.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
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<date value='1837-03-16'>Thursday, March 16, 1837.</date>
<place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
<p> In <name type='case' key='L04080'>Demint et al. v.
Sintz</name>, the plaintiff's attorneys Baker & Hewett, request a continuance
and the court continues the case until the next term. In <name type='case' key='L04722'>Torrey v. Green</name> Lincoln files a demurrer for his New Salem
friend, William Green.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
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<date value='1837-03-17'>Friday, March 17, 1837.</date>
<place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
<p> Stuart & Lincoln file a demurrer for Tarleton Lloyd in <name type='case' key='L04721'>Torrey v. Lloyd</name>. The court grants
their petition for partition of lands in <name type='case' key='L02957'>Carrico v. Carrico et al.</name>. Stuart & Lincoln represent Sarah J.
Broadwell in another partition case, <name type='case' key='L02765'>Broadwell v. Broadwell et al.</name>. On their motion, the court grants an alias
summons against two of the defendants and continues the case. Lincoln and Thomas
represent the defendant in an attachment suit, <name type='case' key='L03689'>Johns v. Raley</name>.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
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<date value='1837-03-18'>Saturday, March 18, 1837.</date>
<place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
<p> Stuart & Lincoln, represent Elizabeth Baker in her divorce case,
<name type='case' key='L02577'>Baker v. Baker</name>. The court orders
the clerk to issue an alias summons to Greene County and continues the case. Stuart,
Lincoln, Logan, and Baker represent the defendants in a debt case, <name type='case' key='L04798'>Ware v. Duncan et al.</name>. Judge Dan Stone, who was
apparently employed as an attorney by one of the litigants, continues the case.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
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<date value='1837-03-27'>Monday, March 27, 1837.</date>
<place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
<p> [Morgan Circuit Court opens five-day term at Jacksonville. Judge William
Brown presides. There is no evidence that either Stuart or Lincoln attends Morgan Court
during three terms in 1837.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>]</p>
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