1On December 19, 1838, Jonas Rawalt introduced the resolution in the House of Representatives. The House received a reply from Governor Thomas Carlin on December 28.
                  
         Journal of the House of Representatives of the Eleventh General Assembly of the State
                        of Illinois, at Their First Session, (Vandalia, IL: William Walters, 1838), 112, 114-15.
                  
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