<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1846-12-02'>Wednesday, December 2, 1846.</date>
            <place key='40.0000, -89.8333' teiForm='name'>Petersburg, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Menard Circuit Court opens for special three-day term. Lincoln appears for
            four supervisors of Menard County indicted for failure to do their duty; jury finds
            William Young and William McNeely not guilty and prosecution drops case against Bennett
            Abell and Bluford Atterbury. <name type='case'>James v. Engle</name> is
            by agreement dismissed at defendant's cost. Lincoln &amp; Herndon appear for
            plaintiff. Lincoln writes bond for costs in <name type='case'>Elmore v.
               Moon</name>.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1846-12-03'>Thursday,
  December 3, 1846.</date> 
            <place key='40.0000, -89.8333' teiForm='name'>Petersburg,
  IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> In <name type='case'>People v. Ammai Merrill</name>, indictment for giving payment in
  counterfeit coin, jury finds defendant guilty; he is sentenced to three years.
  Lincoln, Herndon, and Robbins appear for defendant.
  <bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Lincoln
  writes affidavit in <name type='case'>People v. Lane</name>.
  <bibl default='NO'>Photocopy.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1846-12-04'>Friday, December 4, 1846.</date>
            <place key='40.0000, -89.8333' teiForm='name'>Petersburg, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> In <name type='case'>Elmore v. Moon</name>, jury finds
            defendant guilty and assesses damages at $50. Court awards $317.32 to complainants in
               <name type='case'>John Bennett et al. v. Richard E. Bennett et
            al.</name>, and orders real estate sold as per bill of complaint. In chancery case of
               <name type='case'>Waggoner v. Lukins</name>, jury awards land to
            complainant on payment of $125.34. Lincoln is for plaintiffs in all three cases.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> He writes court order in three cases: <name type='case'>Bennett, executor v. Bennett et al.</name>; <name type='case'>Backenstos v. Backenstos</name>; <name type='case'>Wright v. Adams et
               al.</name>
            <bibl default='NO'>Photocopy; Herndon-Weik Collection, Library of
               Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

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         <dateline>
            <date value='1846-12-06'>Sunday, December 6, 1846.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln writes to Hezekiah M. Wead, Lewistown attorney, about case Wead has
            on U.S. Circuit Court docket.<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%3A409' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Hezekiah M.
                  Wead</xref>, 6 December 1846, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 1:391.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1846-12-07'>Monday, December 7, 1846.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln writes assignment of errors in <name type='case'>Wilcoxon v. Roby (SC)</name> and signs Logan's 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='1846-12-12'>Saturday, December 12, 1846.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> In U.S. Circuit Court, <name type='case'>Donaldson v.
               Reynolds and Walker</name> is continued by agreement. Peters is attorney for
            plaintiff and Lincoln for defendant.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> Stephen A. Douglas is elected to U.S. Senate, by legislature, over Cyrus
            Edwards, Whig.</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1846-12-14'>Monday, December 14, 1846.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Supreme Court opens winter term. Defendant, Lincoln's client in <name type='case'>Edgar County v. Mayo</name>, is ruled to join in error by
            December 21, 1846.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> Lincoln writes abstract and assignment of errors for Supreme Court case,
               <name type='case'>Wafer v. heirs of William Stover</name>, but case is
            evidently dropped.<bibl default='NO'>Herndon-Weik Collection, Library of
               Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1846-12-15'>Tuesday, December 15, 1846.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln writes petition to review <name type='case'>Cowls v.
               Cowls (SC)</name> and signs "Webb &amp; Lincoln."<bibl default='NO'>Herndon-Weik Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1846-12-16'>Wednesday, December 16, 1846.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> By consent of parties in <name type='case'>Wren v. Moss et
               al. (SC)</name>, court orders decree of Peoria Circuit Court reversed with costs
            against Thomas Wren. Lincoln and Powell represent plaintiff and Peters defendants.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1846-12-17'>Thursday, December 17, 1846.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> In <name type='case'>Roney v. Monaghan (SC)</name>, from
            Lake County involving sufficiency of evidence to sustain judgment for damages, defendant
            is ruled to join in error by December 21, 1846. Lincoln writes and signs reply to
            assignment of errors. Morris and Pearson appear for appellant and Lincoln for
               appellee.<bibl default='NO'>Record; Herndon-Weik Collection, Library
               of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> Lincoln writes and files return of Judge Browne to writ of alternative
            mandamus issued by Supreme Court February 10, 1844 in<name type='case'>People v. Browne</name>, who signs.<bibl default='NO'>Photocopy.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1846-12-18'>Friday,
  December 18, 1846.</date> 
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield,
  IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> In <name type='case'>People v. Browne</name>, Washburne, attorney for plaintiff, and
  Lincoln, for defendant, argue plaintiff's motion to have writ of alternative
  mandamus made peremptory. Court denies motion. Douglas gives brilliant levee at
  state house in honor of his election to U.S. Senate.
  <bibl default='NO'>Record; <title>Sangamo
  Journal</title>, 24 December 1846.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1846-12-19'>Saturday, December 19, 1846.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> In <name type='case'>Wilcoxson v. Roby (SC)</name>, suit on
            penal bond from Stephenson County, court orders appellant to file abstracts by December
            23, 1846. Lincoln is attorney for appellant and Jesse B. Thomas for appellee. Appellant
            is ordered to assign errors in <name type='case'>Garrett v. Stevenson
               (SC)</name>, appeal from Tazewell County. Lincoln appears for appellant.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> Lincoln writes assignment of errors in <name type='case'>Shaffer and Shaffer v. Weed (SC)</name>, signing for Constable and Lincoln.<bibl default='NO'>Herndon-Weik Collection, Library of Congress, Washington,
               DC.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1846-12-30'>Wednesday, December 30, 1846.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Whig members of legislature meet in "Sangamo Journal" office to select
            candidate to fill congressional seat left vacant by resignation of E. D. Baker. Lincoln
            declines, and Judge William Brown is chosen. <name type='case'>Chauncey
               v. Jackson</name> is argued before Supreme Court by O. C. Skinner for plaintiff and
            Lincoln for defendant.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Sangamo Journal</title>, 14 January 1847; Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1846-12-31'>Thursday, December 31, 1846.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Defendant in <name type='case'>Roney v. Monaghan
            (SC)</name>, is ordered to join in errors on transcript filed December 14, 1846, joinder
            in error to be made before January 4, 1847. Morris and Pearson appear for appellant and
            Lincoln for appellee.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> Lincoln buys two books ("Miss Leslie's Cookery," 87&#162;, "Miss
            Leslie's Housekeeper," 80&#162;), lamp shades, $1.50, and $3.17 in groceries.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Irwin Ledger and Journal</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>