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Resolved, That the committee on Finance be instructed to enquire int[o] the expediency of this Legislature passing a law authorizing the Bank [of] Illinois to locate a Branch of said bank at the city of Springfield, to b[e] made the fiscal agent of the State of Illinois, and that they report by bill [or] otherwise.
1Oliver Shepley introduced the resolution in the House of Representatives on December 21, 1840, and the House adopted it. On January 4, 1841 the Committee
on Finance, which included Abraham Lincoln as a member, reported back the resolution, and the House discharged it 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), 140, 181.
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), 140