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Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate concurring herein[)], that the Inspectors of the Penitentiary of this State be requested to make an estimate of the probable cost of completing
said Penitentiary, argeeable to the plan adopted, when the same was commenced and report to this General Assembly as early as practicable.
Also report the probable expense of procuring ten acres of ground within three miles
of the present location of the penitentiary, and the building and completing the same, agreeable to the before mentioned plan.
And the comparative advantages of the two points to the State, for profitably employing the convicts therein confined[.]
1On December 23, 1836, Thomas Atwater introduced the resolution in the House of Representatives. The Senate adopted the resolution on December 24. On January 12, 1837, Speaker of
the House James Semple presented the response from the Inspectors of the Penitentiary to the House . The House referred the response to the Committee on the Penitentiary,
of which Abraham Lincoln was a member.
Illinois House Journal. 1836. 10th G. A., 1st sess., 97, 120, 246; Illinois Senate Journal. 1836. 10th G. A., 1st sess., 107.
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), 97