An Act for the redemption for the Wiggins Loan
1Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois represented in general assembly, that the Governor be and he is hereby authorized
to receive from Samuel Wiggins the one hundred thousand dollars in Bonds Issued to him in Eighteen hundred and thirty
or the same amount of other Bonds of equal value issued by the authority of this State. or one hundred and Ten thousand dollars in auditors warrants canal or Internal Improvement
Scrip. In discharge of a Bond given by the State Bank of Illinois in June Eighteen hundred and thirty six for the assumption of a Loan of one hundred
thousand dollars commonly called the Wiggins Loan
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1John J. Hardin introduced HB 230 in the House of Representatives on February 12, 1841. The House referred the bill to the Committee on Finance, of
which Abraham Lincoln was a member. The Committee on Finance reported back the bill on February 27, and
the House discharged the committee from further consideration. The House took no
further action.
Journal of the House of Representatives, of the Twelfth General Assembly of the State
of Illinois, At Their Second Session, Begun and Held in the City of Springfield, December
7, 1840 (Springfield, IL: William Walters, 1840), 376, 558.
Handwritten Document, 2 page(s), Folder 166, HB 230, GA Session 12-2,
Illinois State Archives (Springfield, IL) ,