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Resolved, That the committee on Finance be instructed to enquire into the expediency of requiring
the Commissioners
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of the School Fund to draw for and receive the whole amount of the School Fund belonging
to this State now, on deposite in the Commercial Agency at St. Louis, or any other bank, and forthwith deposite the same in the Treasury of this State, and that the same fund be made to leave an interest of six per cent per annum, and that they report by bill or otherwise.
1On December 23, 1836, John Dawson introduced the resolution in the House of Representatives. On December 24, the Committee on Finance, which included Abraham Lincoln, reported back and the House discharged them from further consideration of the subject.
In 1835, the General Assembly had passed an act that also instructed the commissioners of the school fund to withdraw all funds on
deposit in the St. Louis branch of the Bank of the United States.
Illinois House Journal. 1836. 10th G. A., 1st sess., 95-96, 121.
Printed Transcription, 2 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), 95-96