<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1836-12-05'>Monday, December 5, 1836.</date>
            <place key='38.9500, -89.0833' teiForm='name'>Vandalia, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln and other eight members of Sangamon delegation, nicknamed Long Nine
            because of their height, attend opening session of Tenth General Assembly. He votes four
            times for Newton Cloud for Speaker, but James Semple is elected. On Lincoln's motion
            House elects David Prickett clerk.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>House Journal</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1836-12-06'>Tuesday, December 6, 1836.</date>
            <place key='38.9500, -89.0833' teiForm='name'>Vandalia, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> House continues with election of doorkeeper. Jefferson Weatherford, one of
            seven candidates, is elected. House is waiting for Gov. Duncan's address and adjourns
            soon after noon.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>House Journal</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1836-12-07'>Wednesday, December 7, 1836.</date>
            <place key='38.9500, -89.0833' teiForm='name'>Vandalia, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Select committee appointed to draft House rules reports and recommends two
            new standing committees, "Roads &amp; Canals, Agriculture," and "Commerce and
            Manufactures." Report recommending nine members on each standing committee is
               adopted.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>House Journal</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1836-12-08'>Thursday, December 8, 1836.</date>
            <place key='38.9500, -89.0833' teiForm='name'>Vandalia, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> [No session of House.]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1836-12-09'>Friday,
  December 9, 1836.</date> 
            <place key='38.9500, -89.0833' teiForm='name'>Vandalia, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Gov. Duncan addresses legislature, denouncing President
  Jackson's policies. He points out difficulties attendant on sale of state bonds
  to finance internal improvements, necessity of militia, need of public
  education, and recommends that state purchase stock reserved in state bank.
  <bibl default='NO'> 
               <title>House
  Journal</title>.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1836-12-10'>Saturday, December 10, 1836.</date>
            <place key='38.9500, -89.0833' teiForm='name'>Vandalia, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln is appointed to two of 14 standing House committees: important
            Committee on Finance, and minor Penitentiary Committee.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>House Journal</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1836-12-12'>Monday, December 12, 1836.</date>
            <place key='38.9500, -89.0833' teiForm='name'>Vandalia, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> [House meets in morning. Lincoln's name is not mentioned in
               proceedings.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>House Journal</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> Supreme Court convenes and remains in session until March 2, 1837.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1836-12-13'>Tuesday, December 13, 1836.</date>
            <place key='38.9500, -89.0833' teiForm='name'>Vandalia, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln writes Mary Owens at New Salem of his depressed feelings since
            leaving home. He mentions fight among Democratic candidates for U.S. Senator,
            uncompleted state house, John Taylor's petition for new county [Menard], and opposition
            of Morgan delegation. He thinks there is good chance of moving capital to
               Springfield.<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%3A85' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Mary S.
                  Owens</xref>, 13 December 1836, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 1:54-55.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1836-12-14'>Wednesday, December 14, 1836.</date>
            <place key='38.9500, -89.0833' teiForm='name'>Vandalia, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln moves report of auditor be tabled and 2,000 copies printed. Motion
            adopted. He votes for Archibald Williams of Quincy for U.S. senator on three ballots.
            Richard M. Young of Jonesboro is elected.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>House Journal</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1836-12-15'>Thursday, December 15, 1836.</date>
            <place key='38.9500, -89.0833' teiForm='name'>Vandalia, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln votes with majority to refer divorce petition of Henry King to
            Committee on Petitions. He votes yea on granting second reading to bill repealing act to
            improve cattle, passed last session.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>House Journal</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1836-12-16'>Friday, December 16, 1836.</date>
            <place key='38.9500, -89.0833' teiForm='name'>Vandalia, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Dubois and Lincoln call for vote on amendment to "act to provide for
            receiving a distributive share of the surplus revenue of the United States on deposit."
            Lincoln votes nay on resolution: "That it is unconstitutional and foreign to the duties
            of . . . the Legislature to grant bills of divorce."<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>House Journal</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1836-12-17'>Saturday, December 17, 1836.</date>
            <place key='38.9500, -89.0833' teiForm='name'>Vandalia, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Senate sitting with House elects W. B. Scates judge of third judicial
            circuit. Lincoln votes for S. D. Marshall, who is elected prosecuting attorney of same
            circuit. House adopts Senate resolution "requiring the treasurer . . . to demand specie
            on the drafts of the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States for her proportion
            of the public deposits."<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>House Journal</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1836-12-19'>Monday, December 19, 1836.</date>
            <place key='38.9500, -89.0833' teiForm='name'>Vandalia, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> "Little Bull law," deemed undemocratic by voters, is repealed 81 to 4.
            Lincoln votes with majority.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>House Journal</title>; William E. Baringer, <title>Lincoln's Vandalia: A Pioneer Portrait</title> (New Brunswick, NJ:
               Rutgers University Press, 1949), 6-7.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1836-12-20'>Tuesday,
  December 20, 1836.</date> 
            <place key='38.9500, -89.0833' teiForm='name'>Vandalia,
  IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Douglas, from committee on Petitions,
  reports bill for new county to be formed out of Sangamon. On Lincoln's motion
  it is referred to select committee of Wilson of Sangamon, Richardson of
  Schuyler, and himself. He introduces resolution asking doorkeeper if assistant
  is necessary.<bibl default='NO'> 
               <title>House
  Journal</title>; Photocopy;
  <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln1;node=lincoln1%3A86' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Resolution in the Illinois
  Legislature to Request Doorkeeper of the House to Make a Statement Concerning
  Need for an Assistant Doorkeeper</xref>, [20 December 1836],
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 1:55.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1836-12-21'>Wednesday, December 21, 1836.</date>
            <place key='38.9500, -89.0833' teiForm='name'>Vandalia, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln reports committee bill with amendments for Sangamon County
            division, says bill is compromise, and favors it because county can be divided only by
            vote of people. He is opposed to offering to people territory too small for
               acceptance.<bibl default='NO'>Illinois State Register, Vandalia, 12
               January 1837;<title>House Journal</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1836-12-22'>Thursday, December 22, 1836.</date>
            <place key='38.9500, -89.0833' teiForm='name'>Vandalia, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Day is devoted to Sangamon division bill. Linder's motion to have only
            people in new county vote brings debate in which Linder, Douglas, Webb, and Lincoln take
            part. Linder's afternoon motion to eliminate referendum clause brings Lincoln again into
               debate.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>House Journal</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1836-12-23'>Friday, December 23, 1836.</date>
            <place key='38.9500, -89.0833' teiForm='name'>Vandalia, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Smith of Wabash proposes resolutions which become system of internal
            improvements. McClernand of Gallatin reports committee reply to Gov. Duncan's charges
            against President Jackson. Party fight ensues with Hardin of Morgan leading Whigs.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>House Journal</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1836-12-24'>Saturday, December 24, 1836.</date>
            <place key='38.9500, -89.0833' teiForm='name'>Vandalia, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln writes John McNamar that he has received petition to change state
            road. If McNamar does not wish this change he should get up remonstrance. Lincoln
            attends legislature, reporting, from select committee, amendments to Van Buren County
               bill.<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%3A90' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to John
                  McNamar</xref>, 24 December 1836, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 1:60; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln1;node=lincoln1%3A89' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Bill Introduced in Illinois
                  Legislature to Organize the County of Van Buren</xref>, [24 December 1836], <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 1:57-60; <title>House Journal</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1836-12-26'>Monday, December 26, 1836.</date>
            <place key='38.9500, -89.0833' teiForm='name'>Vandalia, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> [House celebrates Christmas; no session.]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1836-12-27'>Tuesday, December 27, 1836.</date>
            <place key='38.9500, -89.0833' teiForm='name'>Vandalia, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> House devotes most of day to accounts of John Dement, former state
            treasurer. Whigs, led by Hardin of Morgan, ask that "all the money which appeared to be
            due from said Auditor's supplemental report" be turned over by Dement. Hardin's
            resolution is tabled, Lincoln voting nay.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>House Journal</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1836-12-28'>Wednesday, December 28, 1836.</date>
            <place key='38.9500, -89.0833' teiForm='name'>Vandalia, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> House is notified of death of Resolve Graham, member from Gallatin. House
            adopts resolutions of regret and adjourns.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>House Journal</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1836-12-29'>Thursday, December 29, 1836.</date>
            <place key='38.9500, -89.0833' teiForm='name'>Vandalia, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Funeral services for Resolve Graham are held in capitol; House and Senate
            attend. Hogan of Madison delivers funeral address, and House follows cortege to edge of
            town on its way to Gallatin County.<bibl default='NO'>Illinois State
               Register, 30 December 1836.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1836-12-30'>Friday,
  December 30, 1836.</date> 
            <place key='38.9500, -89.0833' teiForm='name'>Vandalia,
  IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln votes with majority to table
  resolution instructing Election Committee to inquire into expediency of voting
  by ballot. He votes to table resolution asking Congress for alternate sections
  of land along creeks and rivers for purpose of improving them.
  <bibl default='NO'> 
               <title>House
  Journal</title>.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Lincoln signs bond of Charles
  Gregory as treasurer.<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%3A91' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Bond of Charles Gregory as
  Treasurer of Illinois</xref>, 30 December 1836,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 1:60-61.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1836-12-31'>Saturday, December 31, 1836.</date>
            <place key='38.9500, -89.0833' teiForm='name'>Vandalia, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> [Lincoln's name does not appear in proceedings. No roll calls are taken.
            Dawson of Sangamon proposes resolution that is strikingly similar to Homestead Law
            enacted by Congress in 1862.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>House Journal</title>.</bibl>]</p>
      </div2>