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Resolved, That the President of the State Bank be requested to inform this House without delay, whether the Branch of said Bank heretofore located at Chicago, and directed to be removed therefrom under the provisions of an act in relation to the State Bank of Illinois, approved January 31, 1840, has been established at some other place as required by the provisions of the said act, and if not so established elsewhere, the reasons for so disregarding the law in that behalf.
1John A. McClernand introduced the resolution in the House of Representatives on December 17, 1840, and the House adopted it.
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), 129.

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), 129