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Resolved, That the committee on Finance be instructed to report a bill to this House, so amending the revenue law, as to make it bear equally upon all merchants.
1William W. Happy introduced the resolution in the House of Representatives on December 13, 1839, and the House adopted it. The Committee on Finance, of which
Abraham Lincoln was a member, took no action.
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), 34.
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), 34