January 26, 1858

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         <dateline> 
            <date value='1858-01-26'>Tuesday, January 26,
  1858.</date> 
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>. </dateline>
         <p> In the Illinois
  Supreme Court, Lincoln, Jackson Grimshaw, and Orville Hickman Browning file an
  answer for defendant and Illinois Secretary of State Ozias M. Hatch in the case
  of <name type='case' key='L04112'>People ex rel. Lanphier &amp; Walker v.
  Hatch</name>. In 1857, the Illinois General Assembly passed a bill to create
  senatorial and representative districts and to apportion the representation to
  the General Assembly. Republican Governor Bissell inadvertently signed the
  bill, and his private secretary reported to the House of Representatives that
  the Governor had approved the bill. Governor Bissell realized his mistake,
  scratched out his name, and vetoed the bill. The Democrats wanted to test the
  validity of Bissell's striking his signature after the secretary had announced
  the passage of the bill. The People, on the relation of Lanphier and Walker,
  public printers for the state, sued Hatch, the Secretary of State and
  record-keeper of the laws, in the Illinois Supreme Court for a writ of mandamus
  to compel him to furnish a true copy of the apportionment bill for printing. 
  <bibl default='NO'>Order, 26 January 1858, <title>People ex rel. Lanphier &amp; Walker v.
  Hatch</title>, Journal Record SC 2nd GD 1855-1864 [CGD], 131; Opinion, January
  1858 Term, <title>People ex rel. Lanphier &amp; Walker v. Hatch</title>,
  Journal &amp; Opinion Record SC CGD 1855-1861, 197-202, both in Illinois
  Supreme Court, Illinois State Archives, Springfield, IL.</bibl> 
         </p>
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