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Resolved by the General Assembly, That the committee on Finance of both Houses be instructed to enquire into the condition of the Treasury of the State, with a view to the examination and liquidation of the accounts subsisting between
the Hon. John Dement, late Treasurer of the State of Illinois, and make report thereon to their respective Houses.2
1On December 27, 1836, Daniel Stone introduced the resolution in the House of Representatives, and the House adopted it. On December 29, the Senate concurred in the resolution. On January 6, 1837, the House Committee on Finance,
of which Abraham Lincoln was a member, reported its findings, and its Senate counterpart did the same on January 7.
Illinois House Journal. 1836. 10th G. A., 1st sess., 128, 138-139, 181-83; Illinois Senate Journal. 1836. 10th G. A., 1st sess., 123-24, 166-68.
2On the same day, the House of Representatives tabled a resolution relating to the accounts of John Dement as treasurer, and the Senate adopted, but the House of Representatives tabled, another resolution concerning the same topic.
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), 128