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[Resolved,] that the committee on Finance be instructed to enquire into the expediency, at the
present session, of creating a sinking Fund, to be exclusively applied to the payment
of the interest on State Bonds, for the final extinguishment of the same.
1John H. Murphy introduced the resolution in the House of Representatives on December 28, 1839, and the House adopted it.
Journal of the House of Representatives, of the Eleventh General Assembly of the State
of Illinois, at Their Called Session (Springfield, IL: William Walters, 1839), 100.
Printed Transcription, 1 page(s), Journal of the House of Representatives, of the Eleventh General Assembly of the State of Illinois, at Their Called Session (Springfield, IL: William Walters, 1839), 100