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<date value='1853-01-17'>Monday,
January 17, 1853.</date>
<place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield,
IL</place>.</dateline>
<p>[The legislature passes a law
appropriating funds to pay Lincoln and two others for "services rendered to the
state." Lincoln receives $149 for serving on a commission formed "to take
evidence in relation to certain claims." <bibl default='NO'>"An Act to Pay Certain Persons
Therein for Services Rendered to the State," 17 January 1853, <title>General
Laws of the State of Illinois</title> (1853), 448.]</bibl>
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