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Resolved, That the Governor be requested to transmit to this House all communications which he may have received from Mr. Delafield, and the bankers to whom bonds have been sold, and which are now in a state of litigation
relative to said bonds.
1Richard Murphy introduced the resolution in the House of Representatives on December 16, 1840, and the House adopted it. On December 21, the House received
communication from Governor Thomas Carlin in response to this resolution, accompanied with correspondence between Carlin and
Joseph Delafield. The House referred this correspondence to the Committee on Finance,
on which sat Abraham Lincoln, for action.
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, 143.
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