Please come right up.
Yours as ever,
A. LINCOLN.
TO J. GILLESPIE.
SPRINGFIELD, Feb 7, 1858
MY DEAR SIR: Yesterday morning the court overruled the demurrer to
Hatches return in the mandamus case. McClernand was present; said nothing
about pleading over; and so I suppose the matter is ended.
The court gave no reason for the decision; but Peck tells me
confidentially that they were unanimous in the opinion that even if the
Gov'r had signed the bill purposely, he had the right to scratch his name
off so long as the bill remained in his custody and control.
Yours as ever,
A. LINCOLN.
TO H. C. WHITNEY.
SPRINGFIELD, December 18, 1857.
HENRY C. WHITNEY, ESQ.
MY DEAR SIR:--Coming home from Bloomington last night I found your letter
of the 15th.
I know of no express statute or decisions as to what a J. P. upon the
expiration of his term shall do with his docket books, papers, unfinished
business, etc., but so far as I know, the practice has been to hand over
to the successor, and to cease to do anything further whatever, in
perfect analogy to Sections 110 and 112, and I have supposed and do
suppose this is the law. I think the successor may forthwith do whatever
the retiring J.
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