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Resolved, That the President of the State Bank of Illinois be requested to inform this House what real estate compose the item of $471,995[.]46 in the report of that institution made on the 1st day of December last, the kind
thereof, where situated, and the value of each piece of real property; and also inform
this House how the said real estate has increased in value to the sum of $473,422[.]75, as shown by the report of the Bank made on the 16th inst.; and also, to inform this House of the prospect of collecting the suspended debt, of $662,811[.]84, and whether real estate has not been taken as security for such debt, or some
part thereof; and whether such real estate, if taken as such security, is not a part
of the item of real estate mentioned in their said reports made on the 1st and 16th
December last[.]
1Daniel Baldwin introduced the resolution in the House of Representatives on February 6, 1841, and the House adopted it. On February 13 Thomas Mather, president of the State Bank of Illinois, responded to this request for information. The House referred this communication
to the Committee on Banks and Corporations. The Committee on Banks and Corporations
reported back the communication on February 16, and the House discharged the committee
from further consideration.
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), 341, 395, 408.
Printed Transcription, 1 page(s), 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), 341