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Resolved, That a committee of seven be appointed to consider and report upon the best means
of further providing for the payment of the interest on the State debt, for the disposition
of the system of internal improvements, and for the continuance of operations on the
canal.
1Cyrus Edwards introduced the resolution in the House of Representatives on February 20, 1841, and the House adopted it. The House appointed a select committee
of nine persons, including Abraham Lincoln, pursuant to the resolution. On February 23, the select committee issued majority
and minority reports, which the House tabled.
Journal of the House of Representatives, of the Twelfth General Assembly of the State
of Illinois, At Their Second Session (Springfield, IL: William Walters, 1840), 455, 478
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