Lincoln writes for James Rutledge bill to James Odham for board and horse feed while Odham carried mail for year (1830-31), at $27.00 Bill is signed by James Rutledge and attested by Bowling Green.Photocopy.

[No roll calls are taken and Lincoln's name does not appear in proceedings.House Journal.]

Stuart introduces bill, in Lincoln's handwriting, for state road from Wabash River to Yellow Banks on Mississippi (which passes January 16, 1835.)An Act of the Illinois Legislature to Lay Out a State Road from the Wabash to the Yellow Banks of the Mississippi River, [12 January 1835], CW, 1:32-33.

Lincoln votes yea (31 yeas, 19 nays) on resolution instructing governor to sue public printer for failing to print complete "House Journal" and laws of regular session. After amendment, Gallatin Saline bill is read third time.House Journal.

Lincoln's name does not appear in proceedings, but he is probably present to hear report on antiabolitionist memorials from six states. Report deplores slavery but denounces abolitionists for scattering "fire brands of discord and disunion."House Journal.

Lincoln writes and signs, for Stuart & Lincoln, a declaration and praecipe in Reed et ux. v. Arnold and Butler.Herndon-Weik Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.

Lincoln writes and files with the Sangamon County Circuit Court a declaration in Cannan v. Kenney, signing "Stuart & Lincoln for plff."Herndon-Weik Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.

Lincoln attacks Polk's war policy. He defends his "spot resolutions" and attempts to disprove Polk's contention that Mexicans began war. "The President is, in no wise, satisfied with his own positions," he declares. ". . . He is a bewildered, confounded, and miserably perplexed man. God grant he may be able to show, there is not something about his conscience, more painful than all his mental perplexity!"Globe; Speech in United States House of Representatives: The War with Mexico, 12 January 1848, CW, 1:431-42.

Lincoln attends House, for his name does not appear on list of absentees. Journal.