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<date value='1851-01-13'>Monday, January 13, 1851.</date>
<place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
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U.S. District and Circuit Courts adjourn.
<bibl default='NO'>Register, 14 January 1851.</bibl>
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<name type='case' key='L04939'>Webster & Huntington v. French et al.</name>, remanded to
Sangamon Circuit Court January 19, 1850, and appealed again December
12, 1851, again comes before Supreme Court. Case turns on time bids
for Quincy House were offered. Logan and Lincoln argue for
plaintiffs, Edwards and Browning for defendants.
<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
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Lincoln writes to Senator James A. Pearce of Maryland recommending
Charles H. Constable, Illinois Whig, for Oregon judgeship.
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<xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln2;node=lincoln2%3A151' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to James A. Pearce</xref>, 13 January 1851, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:97.</bibl>
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