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Resolved, That the Governor be requested to communicate to this House any vacancies which may have happened in any office in this State, the filling of which will devolve on the present Assembly.
1William F. Elkin introduced the resolution in the House of Representatives on January 15, 1840, and the House adopted it.
Illinois House Journal. 1839. 11th G. A., 1st sess., 180.

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), 180