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Resolved, That the Auditor of Public Accounts be requested to furnish this House all the information in his possession relative to the amount of the bonus paid, or
which may become due
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from the Bank of Illinois: and that the said Auditor be authorized to check upon said Bank in favor of the State for the amount so due.21On December 27, 1836, William Moore introduced the resolution in the House of Representatives, and the House adopted it. On December 29, the House received a communication on
the subject, which the House referred to the Committee on Finance, of which Abraham Lincoln was a member.
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), 128-29, 135.
2The charter of the Bank of Illinois, extended by an act passed in 1835, required the Bank to pay into the State Treasury, annually, a bonus
of one half percent on all capital stock paid into the Bank.
Laws of the State of Illinois (1841), x-xii.
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), 128-29