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Resolved, That the committee on Finance, to which was referred a resolution in relation to
increasing the capital stock of the Bank of Illinois, be instructed to inquire into the expediency of providing that a part of the increased
capital be loaned to citizens of this State, the payment of which to be secured by mortgage upon unencumbered real estate lying
in the State of Illinois.
1Harvey T. Pace introduced the resolution in the House of Representatives on January 5, 1839, as a companion to a resolution adopted by the House on January 4. The House adopted the resolution. On January
28, the Committee on Finance, on which sat Abraham Lincoln, reported back the resolutions 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), 174