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That in the opinion of the committee, it is inexpedient to legislate on the subject
at present, and pray to be discharged from the further consideration of said subject.
1On January 2, 1834, Peter Butler introduced a resolution in the House of Representatives, instructing the Committee on Public Accounts and Expenditures to look into the expediency
of drafting a law to compensate certain witness in criminal cases. On January 7, John D. Hughes reported the committee’s response. The House voted against an amendment that would
have instructed the Committee on the Judiciary to report a bill providing compensation
in such cases, by a vote of 20 yeas to 32 nays. The House then discharged the Committee
on Public Accounts and Expenditures from further consideration of the subject.
Illinois House Journal. 1835. 9th G. A., 1st sess., 239.
Printed Transcription, 1 page(s), Journal of the House of Representatives of the Ninth General Assembly of the State of Illinois, at Their First Session (Vandalia, IL: J. Y. Sawyer, 1835), 239