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Resolved, That the charges made in the Illinois State Register, of the 25 inst., against John Tillson, are unfounded[.2]
1On January 25, 1840, William L. D. Ewing laid before the House of Representatives a communication from John Tillson, Jr. The House referred the communication to the Committee on Finance. On February 1, Wyatt B. Stapp from the Committee on Finance, on which sat Abraham Lincoln, reported back the communication with a majority report on the charges against Tillson. In response to this report, Archibald Williams introduced the resolution in the House, and the House tabled it. Other members of the Committee on Finance issued a minority report, which the House tabled. The House re-considered its previous vote on the resolution but, in the middle of the vote, re-considered and again tabled the resolution.
Illinois House Journal. 11th G. A., special sess., 251, 319, 325.
2The December 25, 1839, edition of the Register accused Tillson, one of the fund commissioner for the new state capitol in Springfield, of refusing to allow a New York bank to pay the initial $50,000 of a loan from the Bank of Illinois to pay for the new building. The piece explicitly called out his “bungling management.”
Illinois State Register, 25 December 1839, 2:2.

Printed Transcription, 1 page(s), Journal of the House of Representatives, of the Eleventh General Assembly of the State of Illinois, at Their Called Session (Springfield, IL: William Walters, 1839), 319