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Resolved, That the committee on Finance be instructed to report a bill for an act defining the duties of Treasurer, and providing for the fiscal management and safe keeping of the revenue of this State.2
1On December 17, 1836, Edward Smith introduced the resolution in the House of Representatives, and the House adopted it. The Committee on Finance, of which Abraham Lincoln was a member, took no further action.
Illinois House Journal. 1836. 10th G. A., 1st sess., 67.
2The House of Representatives took no action on this resolution, but the House and Senate did pass an act in this session for the safe keeping and security of the public money.

Printed Transcription, 1 page(s), Journal of the House of Representatives of the Tenth General Assembly of the State of Illinois, at Their First Session (Vandalia, IL: William Walters, 1836), 67