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Resolved, That the committee on Finance be instructed to inquire into the expediency of so
amending the license law as to place all articles, manufactured in this State, upon an equality, so far as the sale of the same is concerned; and that they be
requested to report by bill or otherwise.
1Robert Smith introduced the resolution in the House of Representatives on February 20, 1839, and the House adopted it. On February 25, 1840, the Committee
on Finance, on which sat Abraham Lincoln, reported back the resolution without a report or bill, and the House discharged
it from further consideration.
Journal of the House of Representatives of the Eleventh General Assembly of the State
of Illinois, at Their First Session, Begun and Held in the Town of Vandalia, December
3, 1838 (Vandalia, IL: William Walters, 1838), 459, 504-505.
Printed Transcription, 1 page(s), 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), 459