<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1836-01-01'>Friday, January 1, 1836.</date>
            <place key='38.9500, -89.0833' teiForm='name'>Vandalia, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> [Lincoln's name does not appear in proceedings. His unusual three-day
            absence from House is accounted for by introduction, January 2, 1836, of report of
            Committee on Public Accounts and Expenditures, by John D. Hughes of St. Clair. Report,
            listing state expenses for 1836 at $89,150, is in Lincoln's hand, showing that he spent
            these days in committee gathering and discussing statistics.<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln1;node=lincoln1%3A71' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Report to Illinois Legislature
                  on State Expenses</xref>, [2 January 1836], <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 1:45.</bibl>]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1836-01-02'>Saturday, January 2, 1836.</date>
            <place key='38.9500, -89.0833' teiForm='name'>Vandalia, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln votes on amendments to "act to incorporate the stockholders of the
            Alton Exporting Co." He votes yea on granting second reading to bill from Education
               Committee.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>House Journal</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1836-01-04'>Monday, January 4, 1836.</date>
            <place key='38.9500, -89.0833' teiForm='name'>Vandalia, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln casts four negative votes: on passage of act concerning justices of
            peace and constables; on passage of act for electing county commissioners court clerks;
            on motion to refer to select committee Vermilion Saline lands bill; and on amendment to
            Saline bill.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>House Journal</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1836-01-05'>Tuesday, January 5, 1836.</date>
            <place key='38.9500, -89.0833' teiForm='name'>Vandalia, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln votes with majority to pass Vermilion Saline bill. He votes nay on
            resolutions proposed January 2, 1836 condemning Whig party and lauding Democratic
            presidential ticket for 1836. Resolutions are adopted 31 to 20.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>House Journal</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1836-01-06'>Wednesday, January 6, 1836.</date>
            <place key='38.9500, -89.0833' teiForm='name'>Vandalia, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln votes on two roll calls.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>House Journal</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1836-01-07'>Thursday, January 7, 1836.</date>
            <place key='38.9500, -89.0833' teiForm='name'>Vandalia, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Illinois and Michigan Canal bill is returned to House with amendments. It
            passes 38 to 14, Lincoln voting for it. He votes nay with majority in refusing to move
            penitentiary from Alton.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>House Journal</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1836-01-08'>Friday,
  January 8, 1836.</date> 
            <place key='38.9500, -89.0833' teiForm='name'>Vandalia, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln votes nay on advancing election bill to third reading.
  As House quickly finishes its current business, three votes on adjournment for
  day are taken. Lincoln votes nay thrice, but House adjourns.
  <bibl default='NO'> 
               <title>House
  Journal</title>.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1836-01-09'>Saturday, January 9, 1836.</date>
            <place key='38.9500, -89.0833' teiForm='name'>Vandalia, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln votes on two private bills, and for Senate amendment to railroad
            incorporation bill.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>House Journal</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> Brown of Tazewell and McLean introduces bill in Lincoln's hand for road
            from Peoria to Pekin.<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln1;node=lincoln1%3A72' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Bill Introduced in Illinois
                  Legislature to Establish a State Road from Peoria to Pekin</xref>, [9 January
               1836], <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 1:45-47.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1836-01-10'>Sunday, January 10, 1836.</date>
            <place key='38.9500, -89.0833' teiForm='name'>Vandalia, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> House members attend funeral of Benjamin A. Clark of Wayne, who died
            Saturday. [On January 11, 1836 members vote their day's pay to widow and children.]<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>House Journal</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1836-01-11'>Monday, January 11, 1836.</date>
            <place key='38.9500, -89.0833' teiForm='name'>Vandalia, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Senate bill for Sangamon River bridge is amended by Lincoln to require
            bridge at or near New Salem.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>House Journal</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1836-01-12'>Tuesday, January 12, 1836.</date>
            <place key='38.9500, -89.0833' teiForm='name'>Vandalia, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> 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.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>House Journal</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1836-01-13'>Wednesday, January 13, 1836.</date>
            <place key='38.9500, -89.0833' teiForm='name'>Vandalia, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> On Lincoln's motion, House recedes from amendment to Sangamon County bridge
            bill requiring bridge at New Salem. Gallatin Saline bill passes after further amendment,
            Lincoln voting yea.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>House Journal</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1836-01-14'>Thursday, January 14, 1836.</date>
            <place key='38.9500, -89.0833' teiForm='name'>Vandalia, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> House discusses Springfield state bank bill most of morning, which Senate
            amended. Sangamon delegation votes yea. Lincoln votes yea on bill incorporating Illinois
            Central Railroad Co.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>House Journal</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1836-01-15'>Friday, January 15, 1836.</date>
            <place key='38.9500, -89.0833' teiForm='name'>Vandalia, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> On Lincoln's motion, Senate bill on cattle is discussed in Committee of the
            Whole. Nicknamed "little bull law," it required young bulls to be penned up and provided
            prizes for best bulls in each county. Bill passes 24 to 16.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>House Journal</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1836-01-16'>Saturday, January 16, 1836.</date>
            <place key='38.9500, -89.0833' teiForm='name'>Vandalia, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln moves reconsideration of House committee amendment to Alton
            exporting company incorporation bill. Despite his objections, House adopts (24 to 18)
            amendment making stockholders liable for debts of corporation.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>House Journal</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1836-01-18'>Monday, January 18, 1836.</date>
            <place key='38.9500, -89.0833' teiForm='name'>Vandalia, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> In brief session, House hears that passed bills have been correctly
            enrolled, that Council of Revision has approved them, and adjourns sine die on motion of
            Stuart of Sangamon without roll call.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>House Journal</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <dateRange from='1836-01-19' to='1836-01-20'>January 19,
               1836-January 20, 1836.</dateRange>
            <place key='' teiForm='name'>En route</place> to <place key='39.9788, -89.8420' teiForm='name'>New Salem, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> &#8212;. New Salem. Lincoln surveys 12-acre tract for David Hart, and
            writes technical notes.<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln1;node=lincoln1%3A70' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Notes of a Survey Made for
                  David Hart</xref>, 1836, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 1:44.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>