<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1851-02-01'>Saturday, February 1, 1851.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Illinois Central bill is still under consideration.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Senate Journal</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1851-02-03'>Monday, February 3, 1851.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Senate postpones vote on Illinois Central bill until February 5, 1851.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Senate Journal</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1851-02-04'>Tuesday, February 4, 1851.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Supreme Court rules in <name type='case'>Harris v. Shaw et 
al.</name>, affirming lower court decision that county did not 
contract with Harris that county seat remain forever at Tremont.
<bibl default='NO'>13 Ill., 456.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1851-02-05'>Wednesday, February 5, 1851.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Amendments to Illinois Central bill are offered and considered by Senate.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Senate Journal</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1851-02-06'>Thursday, February 6, 1851.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Senate passes, 23 to 2, Illinois Central bill.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Senate Journal</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1851-02-10'>Monday, February 10, 1851.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
House of Representatives passes Illinois Central incorporation bill 
by unanimous vote.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>House Journal</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1851-02-12'>Wednesday, February 12, 1851.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln spends 7&#162; for pound of nails.
<bibl default='NO'>Irwin Journal.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1851-02-17'>Monday, February 17, 1851.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
[Legislature adjourns.]
</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1851-02-18'>Tuesday, February 18, 1851.</date> 
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield,
  IL</place>. </dateline>
         <p> Lincoln does paper work in three cases involving
  Alton &amp; Sangamon Railroad Co. He writes and files declaration in suit
  against Joseph Klein. He revises declaration, which Herndon wrote, and writes
  praecipe in action against Thomas Kirkpatrick. In third suit, against John M.
  Burkhardt, he revises and files Herndon's declaration. <bibl default='NO'>Herndon-Weik
  Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1851-02-19'>Wednesday, February 19, 1851.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln writes long letter to William Martin of Alton, commissioner 
for sale of stock, as to liability of stockholders and procedure in 
collecting overdue installments.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln2;node=lincoln2%3A152' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to William Martin</xref>, 19 February 1851, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:98-100.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1851-02-20'>Thursday, February 20, 1851.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln writes to D. A. Smith of Jacksonville, attorney for defendant in <name type='case' key='L02073'>Atwood v. Caldwell et al.</name>, pending in Supreme Court. "I learn that Caldwell has execu[ted his] bond and qualified under the decree. I am now anxio[us to] know whether the arrangement has been made <uLine>to your sat[isfac]tion;</uLine> and I do not like to ask Caldwell. Will you write [me] by return mail?"
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln2;node=lincoln2%3A153' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to David A. Smith</xref>, 20 February 1851, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:100.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1851-02-21'>Friday, February 21, 1851.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln writes and files in Sangamon Circuit Court notice that he will take depositions in <name type='case' key='L02619'>Alton &amp; Sangamon RR v. Klein</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='1851-02-22'>Saturday, February 22, 1851.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln votes in special election for constable and justice of peace.
<bibl default='NO'>Election Returns.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln writes legal papers in fourth Alton &amp; Sangamon case, 
against James A. Barret, from whom railroad seeks $2,000 damages. He 
writes and signs praecipe, declaration, and list of stockholders, 
filing in Sangamon Circuit Court. Lincoln lists himself as owner of 
six shares worth $600.
<bibl default='NO'>Herndon-Weik Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, DC; Photocopy.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1851-02-24'>Monday, February 24, 1851.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln replies to another letter from William Martin. He does not 
think cases referred to by Martin in support of their position are in 
point. "We have sued for payments which <uLine>we say</uLine> the 
Directors have required. We must prove that the Directors 
<uLine>did</uLine> require them. Our exact question is 'Can we prove 
this without producing the books containing the orders requiring the 
payments?' "
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln2;node=lincoln2%3A154' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to William Martin</xref>, 24 February 1851, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:100-1.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln buys $4.04 in merchandise.
<bibl default='NO'>Irwin Ledger.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1851-02-25'>Tuesday, February 25, 1851.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln writes and files notices that depositions will be taken in remaining three Alton &amp; Sangamon cases. He writes and signs "Parker &amp; Lincoln" to declaration in <name type='case' key='L01079'>Hicks v. Meeker</name>, Tazewell County case in which plaintiff accuses defendant of raping his daughter and asks $1,000 damages, and mails it to Pekin.
<bibl default='NO'>Herndon-Weik Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1851-02-26'>Wednesday, February 26, 1851.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln writes to Isaac Gibson, secretary of Alton &amp; Sangamon, 
that company books must be introduced in trial if cases are to be won.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln2;node=lincoln2%3A155' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Isaac Gibson</xref>, 26 February 1851, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:101.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform' type='New'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1851-02-27'>Thursday,
  February 27, 1851.</date> 
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield,
  IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p>Lincoln writes to William Martin of
  Alton, Illinois, regarding the case of 
  <name type='case' key='L02610'>Alton &amp; Sangamon RR v.
  Barret</name>, scheduled to come before the Sangamon County Circuit Court in
  the March term. Lincoln &amp; Herndon represent the railroad, which is suing
  James A. Barret, who refused to pay his subscription payments for railroad
  stock. Barret stopped the payments after the railroad altered the construction
  of a route line. Barret owned property along the railroad's original proposed
  route. The route alteration bypassed Barret's property. Lincoln explains to
  Martin, a commissioner for the sale of stock in the railroad, that Barret "has
  sent in a proposal" in an attempt to resolve the issue. Lincoln asks Martin to
  respond to the question of whether or not "the board...[has] the legal
  authority to release a stockholder in whole or in part" from his subscription
  obligation. <bibl default='NO'>Abraham Lincoln to William Martin, 27 February 1851,
  <title>Alton &amp; Sangamon RR v. Barret</title>, Private Collection; CW
  11:6.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>