Papers Of Abraham Lincoln

RESOLUTION asking of Congress a bounty to soldiers of late war.
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Instructions.

Resolved by the House of Representatives , (the Senate concurring herein,) that our Senators in Congress be instructed, and our Representatives requested, to use their exertions to secure the passage of a law granting, to the volunteers and militia in the late war with Great Britain and the Indian tribes, a bounty in land.

Resolved, That we most cordially believe it is due from the Government to the soldier, to give him a home on the land which his valor has maintained.

1On December 13, 1838, James Copeland introduced the resolution in the House of Representatives, and the House adopted it the same day. The Senate concurred in the resolution on December 20. On January 5, 1839, the Committee on Enrolled Bills reported to the House that they had laid the resolution before the Council of Revision.
Journal of the House of Representatives of the Eleventh General Assembly of the State of Illinois, at Their First Session (Vandalia, IL: William Walters, 1838), 82-83, 123, 175; Journal of the Senate of the Eleventh General Assembly of the State of Illinois, at Their First Session (Vandalia, IL: William Walters, 1838), .