<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1851-06-02'>Monday, June 2, 1851.</date>
            <place key='39.5333, -89.2833' teiForm='name'>Taylorville, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Christian Circuit Court convenes. <name type='case' key='L01604'>Woods v. Ketchum et al.</name>, action for trespass vi et armis, is dismissed by plaintiff at his costs. Lincoln appears for defendant. <name type='case' key='L01591'>Tanner v. Ketchum et al.</name>, in which jury failed to agree November 21, 1850, is continued.
<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

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         <dateline>
            <date value='1851-06-03'>Tuesday, June 3, 1851.</date>
            <place key='39.5333, -89.2833' teiForm='name'>Taylorville, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln's signature is written in blank space in court record for this date opposite case of <name type='case' key='L01513'>Barret &amp; Barret v. Eastham et al.</name>. All defendants except two default and court orders land divided. Lincoln writes and files affidavit that he published notice of cross bill for Yates in this case in "Illinois Journal." He appears for defendant in <name type='case' key='L01523'>Duncan v. Simpson</name>, suit to collect $2,450 for timber cut on Duncan's land.
<bibl default='NO'>Record; Photocopy.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

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         <dateline>
            <date value='1851-06-04'>Wednesday, June 4, 1851.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln returns from circuit.
<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%3A161' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Orville H. Browning and Nehemiah Bushnell</xref>, 5 June 1851, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:105.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
            <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> buys $1.29 in merchandise from John Williams &amp; Co.
<bibl default='NO'>Pratt, <title corresp='books_Pratt3'>Personal Finances</title>, 145.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1851-06-05'>Thursday, June 5, 1851.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln again writes his friends Browning and Bushnell of Quincy 
about Hoyt case evidence.
<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%3A161' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Orville H. Browning and Nehemiah Bushnell</xref>, 5 June 1851, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:105.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln collects from auditor $250 salary for Judge Justin Harlan of 
Fourth Judicial Circuit.
<bibl default='NO'>Photocopy.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1851-06-09'>Monday, June 9, 1851.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
[Illinois Supreme Court for Third Grand Division begins session at Ottawa.]
</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1851-06-11'>Wednesday, June 11, 1851.</date>
            <place key='41.3333, -88.8333' teiForm='name'>Ottawa, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln, for defendants, opposes Stephen A. Douglas and Logan in 
<name type='case' key='L03169'>Dunlap v. Smith &amp; Dunlap</name> in Northern Grand 
Division of Supreme Court. After decision of Supreme Court December 
28, 1850, Judge Davis refused to allow Dunlap's claim to discharge 
his debt to assignees of State Bank in notes and certificates of 
bank, and Dunlap appealed.
<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1851-06-12'>Thursday, June 12, 1851.</date>
            <place key='41.3333, -88.8333' teiForm='name'>Ottawa, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
            <name type='case' key='L03169'>Dunlap v. Smith &amp; Dunlap</name> is concluded. Supreme 
Court later decides against Lincoln's client, holding that act 
liquidating bank authorized its debtors to discharge their 
indebtedness in notes and certificates of bank unless indebtedness 
arose as subscription to bank's stock.
<bibl default='NO'>Record; 12 Ill., 399.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1851-06-13'>Friday, June 13, 1851.</date>
            <place key='41.3333, -88.8333' teiForm='name'>Ottawa, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln and Wingate represent relators in <name type='case' key='L00933'>People ex rel. Stephenson v. Marshall</name>. On February 11, 1851 legislature united Gallatin and Saline Counties, making Equality county seat. Saline County Court, claiming this act unconstitutional, applies for mandamus to compel Marshall, circuit judge, to hold regular term of court at Raleigh in Saline County.
<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1851-06-16'>Monday, June 16, 1851.</date>
            <place key='41.3333, -88.8333' teiForm='name'>Ottawa, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Trial of <name type='case' key='L00933'>People ex rel. Stephenson v. Marshall</name> is concluded. Lincoln and Wingate win case when Supreme Court holds action of legislature invalid without sanction of people of counties, declares law unconstitutional, and awards mandamus.
<bibl default='NO'>Record; 12 Ill. 391.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1851-06-21'>Saturday, June 21, 1851.</date> 
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield,
  IL</place>. </dateline>
         <p> Lincoln buys Robert pair of shoes for 75&#162;. 
  <bibl default='NO'>Irwin Journal.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1851-06-23'>Monday, June 23, 1851.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln takes up Sangamon &amp; Alton Railroad cases. "What points, 
in our Rail Road cases, were decided at the Spring term of your 
Circuit Court?" he asks William Martin, "and how were they decided? 
Will the Secretary, with his Books, be out here at our fall terms? or 
will we be driven to try to prove the ordering of the calls, by 
depositions?"
<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%3A162' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to William Martin</xref>, 23 June 1851, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:105-6.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1851-06-26'>Thursday, June 26, 1851.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln writes and files in Sangamon Circuit Court mortgage foreclosure bill in <name type='case' key='L02583'>Baker v. Moffett &amp; Allen</name>, and fills out summons form.
<bibl default='NO'>Herndon-Weik Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1851-06-28'>Saturday, June 28, 1851.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
By virtue of decree in chancery in <name type='case' key='L01513'>Barret &amp; Barret v. Eastham et al.</name>, decided by Christian Circuit Court August 22, 1850, Lincoln, as commissioner, executes and signs deed conveying properties in Taylorville to complainants.
<bibl default='NO'>Deed Record, Christian County, III, 857-59.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1851-06-30'>Monday, June 30, 1851.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln appears before N. W. Matheny, clerk of Sangamon Circuit 
Court, and has Christian County deed acknowledged.
<bibl default='NO'>Deed Record, Christian County, III, 857-59.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>