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Resolved, That the committee on Finance be instructed to inquir[e] into the expediency of so amending the revenue law as to authorize th[e] appointment of two or more assessors in each county.
1William W. Happy introduced the resolution in the House of Representatives on January 11, 1839, and the House adopted it. The Committee on Finance, on which
sat Abraham Lincoln, did not report back the resolution with a bill or make a report.
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), 198.
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), 198