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Resolved, That the President of the State Bank be requested to inform this House, whether the State Bank of Illinois did resume specie payments on the day named, in the order of the Board of Directors,
for the resumption of specie payments, and whether said bank has continued paying
specie for their notes since that time, and if not, whether she has suspended specie
payments altogether, or in any particular instances, and if so, the cause or reason
thereof[.]
1Richard Murphy introduced the resolution in the House of Representatives on January 25, 1841, and the House adopted it. On February 13 Thomas Mather, president of the State Bank of Illinois, responded to this resolution. 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), 276, 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), 276