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         <dateline> 
            <date value='1839-03-01'>Friday,
  March 1, 1839.</date> 
            <place key='38.9500, -89.0833' teiForm='name'>Vandalia, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Bill appropriating $20,000 for Big Muddy River improvement
  comes back from Senate with amendments which House adopts. Motion to table
  fails, 49 to 12, Lincoln voting nay with others from Sangamon. He votes yea on
  Senate bill for relief of purchasers of canal lots and lands.
  <bibl default='NO'> 
               <title>House
  Journal</title>.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

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         <dateline> 
            <date value='1839-03-02'>Saturday,
  March 2, 1839.</date> 
            <place key='38.9500, -89.0833' teiForm='name'>Vandalia, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Dawson of Sangamon moves that House appropriate $2,000 each to
  Menard, Logan, and Dane counties. Motion fails, it being introduced only to
  call attention to Senate amendment granting $2,000 to Scott County. Lincoln and
  Dawson call for vote and amendment fails 51 to 13. [House adjourns
  <ital>sine die</ital> 4 March 1839.] 
  <bibl default='NO'> 
               <title>House
  Journal</title>.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> State Representative Lincoln
  writes to Bond County resident William S. Wait, who apparently has concerns
  about the recently passed "Revenue law." Lincoln argues that the state needs
  the new property tax because "the wants of the Treasury were
  <uLine>increasing</uLine> with the increase of population." Lincoln maintains
  that the measure "does not increase the tax upon the '<uLine>many poor</uLine>'
  but upon the '<uLine>wealthy few</uLine>.'" He points out that while the tax may
  be unpopular with "the wealthy...<uLine> they</uLine> are not sufficiently
  numerous to carry the elections."<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%3A171' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to William
  S. Wait</xref>, 2 March 1839, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 1:147-48.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

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         <dateline>
            <date value='1839-03-04'>Monday, March 4, 1839.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Stuart &amp; Lincoln have four cases in Sangamon Circuit Court. Steele
            confesses judgment for $186.03 in <name type='case' key='L04773'>Vaughn
               v. Steele &amp; Smith</name>. <name type='case' key='L03614'>Iles
               v. Hobbs</name>, and <name type='case' key='L03739'>Keeland v. Bragg
               &amp; Ware</name> are dismissed at plaintiff's cost. <name type='case' key='L04794'>VanBergen v. H. M. Armstrong &amp; Co.</name>, suit to
            collect debt of $300, is dismissed at defendant's cost. They appear for plaintiff.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

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         <dateline>
            <date value='1839-03-05'>Tuesday, March 5, 1839.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Two chancery cases are Stuart &amp; Lincoln's only business in court.
            They represent complainant in <name type='case' key='L03020'>Patterson et
               al. v. Casey et al.</name>, and defendants in <name type='case' key='L02718'>Bohannan v. Suter et al.</name> In latter case, petitions, exhibits,
            and notice of publication are filed and William Butler appointed guardian.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

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         <dateline>
            <date value='1839-03-06'>Wednesday, March 6, 1839.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Judge William Thomas, commissioned judge of First Circuit February 26,
            1839, takes place of Judge Thomas Ford, and presides until Circuit Court closes March
            16, 1839. William Butler, appointed guardian in <name type='case' key='L02718'>Bohannan v. Suter et al.</name>, files his answer.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1839-03-07'>Thursday, March 7, 1839.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Stuart &amp; Lincoln have five cases in circuit court. Two are
            dismissed and one continued. In <name type='case' key='L03115'>Darling v.
               Norred</name>, court orders land divided equally. Treat appears for plaintiff and
            Stuart &amp; Lincoln for defendant. They get judgment by default for $455.59 on
               <name type='case' key='L02575'>Bailey v. Low</name>.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1839-03-08'>Friday, March 8, 1839.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> On motion of Stuart &amp; Lincoln, leave is given plaintiff to withdraw
            note filed in <name type='case'>Klein &amp; Co. v. Thomas P.
            Smith</name>. Commissioners in <name type='case' key='L03115'>Darling v.
               Norred</name> file report. Asa D. Wright, one of defendants in <name type='case' key='L02565'>Atwood &amp; Jones v. Douglas &amp; Wright</name>,
            files plea. Stuart &amp; Lincoln represent plaintiffs.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1839-03-09'>Saturday, March 9, 1839.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p>
            <name type='case' key='L03213'>Eastham v. Clark &amp; Sanks</name>,
            and <name type='case' key='L03815'>Langford v. Dryer, Cofflin &amp;
               Co.</name>, are dismissed by Stuart &amp; Lincoln representing plaintiffs. <name type='case' key='L02565'>Atwood &amp; Jones v. Douglas &amp;
               Wright</name> is continued. James M. Shackelford is made party to judgment which
            Lincoln obtained for Erastus Wright against C. G. Brooks October 15, 1838.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1839-03-11'>Monday,
  March 11, 1839.</date> 
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield,
  IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Stuart &amp; Lincoln dismiss one case at
  cost of their client, and win seven others by default, obtaining total damages
  of $1,515.38. As attorney for Simeon Francis, Lincoln writes report, which
  Baker signs, in <name type='case' key='L03381'>Francis v.
  Mitchell et al.</name> Mitchell, late postmaster of Springfield, failed to give
  deed to lot.<bibl default='NO'>Record; Photocopy.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

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         <dateline>
            <date value='1839-03-12'>Tuesday, March 12, 1839.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Stuart &amp; Lincoln have eight cases in circuit court; two come to
            trial. They get $3 judgment for William Butler against A. W. Center, but lose <name type='case' key='L03967'>May v. Weber, Ruckle &amp; Co.</name>, in
            which court awards plaintiff $208.50. Lincoln asks that defendant in <name type='case' key='L03196'>William Edwards v. Oliver H. P. Rush</name> be held to
               bail.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> Lincoln writes and files bill in <name type='case' key='L03163'>Duncan v. Goforth &amp; Brooker</name>, Springfield hatters.<bibl default='NO'>Photocopy.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> He writes report of James W. Simpson that real estate title has been
            conveyed to George W. Wilson as ordered in <name type='case' key='L04899'>Wilson v. Simpson et al.</name>
            <bibl default='NO'>Herndon-Weik Collection, Library of Congress,
               Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1839-03-13'>Wednesday, March 13, 1839.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> [Lincoln is not engaged in any of eight cases called in circuit court.
            Stuart replies to Douglas' letter of March 4, 1839, declining Douglas' proposals to
            recanvass votes in congressional election of August 6, 1838. Stuart also declines to
            resign his claim to office and run race over.<bibl default='NO'>Original
               owned by Mrs. Logan Hay, Springfield, Ill.</bibl>]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1839-03-14'>Thursday, March 14, 1839.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Stuart &amp; Lincoln file defendant's answer and exhibits in <name type='case' key='L03116'>Darling v. Norred &amp; Baker</name>. In
            similar case of <name type='case' key='L03115'>Darling v. Norred</name>
            they enter motion for summons to commissioners who reported March 8, 1839, and ask time
            to bring witnesses before commissioner's report is approved.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1839-03-15'>Friday, March 15, 1839.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Stuart &amp; Lincoln obtain divorce for complainant, Samuel Rogers, in
               <name type='case' key='L04460'>Rogers v. Rogers</name>. Alimony of
            $1,000 is granted. They lose <name type='case' key='L03691'>Johnson v.
               Dryer, Cofflin &amp; Co.</name> when judgment of justice of peace is affirmed for
            $39.88. When court orders land sold in <name type='case' key='L03115'>Darling v. Norred</name>, they ask appeal to Supreme Court, which is granted.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1839-03-16'>Saturday, March 16, 1839.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Three cases of Stuart &amp; Lincoln are called on last day of term.
               <name type='case' key='L03744'>Todd v. Kendall</name> is dismissed by
            agreement, and <name type='case' key='L03743'>Kendall v.
            Richardson</name>, ejectment suit, is dismissed by plaintiff. They appear for plaintiff
            in first and defendant in second case. They obtain leave to take deposition of W. D.
            Chitton in <name type='case' key='L04521'>St. John v. Chitton et al.</name>
            <bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1839-03-30'>Saturday, March 30, 1839.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Stuart &amp; Lincoln receive from James Manary $168.80 in full payment
            of judgment obtained March 12, 1838, in Sangamon Circuit Court in <name type='case' key='L03715'>Eli Judy v. James Manary and William Cassity</name>.<bibl default='NO'>Execution Docket D.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>