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Resolved, That the Governor be requested to furnish this House with a list of all convicts that have been pardoned since the first organization
of the State Government; the name of the convicts pardoned; for what crimes convicted; when pardoned;
for what reasons pardoned; and by what Governor pardoned.
1On January 19, 1837, John Dougherty introduced the resolution in the House of Representatives. The House refused to table the resolution by a vote of 17 yeas to 63 nays, with
Abraham Lincoln voting nay. After attempts at amendment, the House refused to adopt the resolution
by a vote of 39 yeas to 42 nays, with Lincoln voting nay.
Illinois House Journal. 1836. 10th G. A., 1st sess., 225-26.
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), 225