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Resolved, That the committee on Finance be instructed to inquire into the expediency of increasing
the capital stock of the Bank of Illinois to an amount equal to that of the State Bank of Illinois.
1Harvey T. Pace introduced the resolution in the House of Representatives on January 4, 1839, and the House adopted it. On January 5, Pace introduced a companion
resolution which the House also adopted. The Committee on Finance, on which sat Abraham Lincoln, reported back the resolutions on January 28 with HB 217.
Illinois House Journal. 1838. 11th G. A., 1st sess., 168, 174, 295.
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), 168