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Resolved ^Resolved^, By the General Assembly of the State of Illinois, That the Public printer, be and he is hereby required to print 28002 copies of the Laws of the present session: And 1000-copies of the Journals of each
house both Houses of this General assembly.3 And that he is further, required to cause said Laws to be bound, in good, substantial
half binding, similar to the manner in which the private acts, of last session, were
bound; also, that the Journals be folded, stiched, and covered, in the same manner, that they were of the last session, in accordance,
with a law passed at the present session, regulating & defining the duties of public printer
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^ Printing Journals^ Adopted
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Printing Laws &c[etc].
1Newton Cloud introduced this resolution in the House of Representatives on January 20, 1835. The House referred the resolution to the Committee of the Whole
and made it the order of the day for the evening session. On January 22, the House
discharged the Committee of the Whole from further consideration and referred the
resolution to a select committee. The select committee reported back the resolution
on January 23 with an amendment. The House amended the resolution by filling in the
first blank with “2800.” The House voted 30 to 22 against filling the second blank
with “1200,” Abraham Lincoln voting in the negative. The House filled the second blank with “1000.” The House
passed the resolution as amended. On January 26, the Senate referred the resolution to the Committee on Finance. The Committee on Finance reported
back the resolution on January 27 without amendment, recommending its adoption. The
Senate concurred in the resolution.
Journal of the House of Representatives of the Ninth General Assembly of the State
of Illinois, at their First Session, Begun and Held in the Town of Vandalia, December
1, 1834 (Vandalia, IL: J. Y. Sawyer, 1835), 335-36, 348, 350, 364, 411; Journal of the Senate, of the Ninth General Assembly of the State of Illinois, at
their First Session, Begun and Held in the Town of Vandalia, December 1, 1834 (Vandalia, IL: J. W. Sawyer, 1835), 320, 334, 336.
2On January 23, 1835, the House of Representatives amended the resolution by filling in the first blank with “2800.”
Journal of the House of Representatives of the Ninth General Assembly of the State
of Illinois, at their First Session, Begun and Held in the Town of Vandalia, December
1, 1834 (Vandalia, IL: J. Y. Sawyer, 1835), 364.
3On January 23, 1835, the House of Representatives amended the resolution by filling in the second blank with “1000.”
Journal of the House of Representatives of the Ninth General Assembly of the State
of Illinois, at their First Session, Begun and Held in the Town of Vandalia, December
1, 1834 (Vandalia, IL: J. Y. Sawyer, 1835), 365.
Handwritten Document, 2 page(s), Folder 278, GA Session: 9-1,
Illinois State Archives [Springfield, IL]