1
Resolved, That the committee on Finance be instructed to enquire into the expediency of so
amending the present revenue law as to require one justice of the peace in each precinct,
to assess the taxable property in such bounds, in the respective counties, with a
view of dispensing with a large portion of the expenditures accruing under the existing
revenue laws, and report by bill or otherwise.
1Achilles D. Dollins introduced the resolution in the House of Representatives on December 16, 1840, and the House adopted it. The Committee on Finance, on which
served Abraham Lincoln, took no action on the resolution.
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), 124.
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), 124