<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1837-02-01'>Wednesday, February 1, 1837.</date>
            <place key='38.9500, -89.0833' teiForm='name'>Vandalia, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Death of David Nowlin, representative from Monroe, is announced. After
            appointment of committee to make funeral arrangements, House adjourns.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>House Journal</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1837-02-02'>Thursday, February 2, 1837.</date>
            <place key='38.9500, -89.0833' teiForm='name'>Vandalia, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> House, Lincoln voting yea, changes hour of assembly from 10 to 9 o'clock.
            [Hour is moved back to 10 week later.] He votes yea on second reading of bill granting
            several divorces. He does not vote on four afternoon roll calls.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>House Journal</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1837-02-03'>Friday, February 3, 1837.</date>
            <place key='38.9500, -89.0833' teiForm='name'>Vandalia, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Bill to erect county of Bureau is reported from committee. Lincoln votes
            for indefinite postponement, but motion fails.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>House Journal</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1837-02-04'>Saturday, February 4, 1837.</date>
            <place key='38.9500, -89.0833' teiForm='name'>Vandalia, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Act for relief of clerk of county commissioners' court of Franklin is
            referred to select committee of Harris of Macoupin, Dollins of Franklin, and Lincoln.
            Joint committee reports that $10,378.22&#189; is due and should be paid to builders
            of new capitol.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>House Journal</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1837-02-06'>Monday, February 6, 1837.</date>
            <place key='38.9500, -89.0833' teiForm='name'>Vandalia, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Act to extend charter of Bank of Kaskaskia is tabled 39 to 37, Lincoln
            voting yea. Douglas moves to table bill extending act incorporating Bank of Illinois at
               Shawneetown.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>House Journal</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1837-02-07'>Tuesday, February 7, 1837.</date>
            <place key='38.9500, -89.0833' teiForm='name'>Vandalia, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln votes nay on five amendments to bill extending act incorporating
            Shawneetown Bank, and yea with majority ordering it engrossed for third reading.
            Afternoon is devoted to amendments to school fund distribution act. Lincoln adds
            amendment which is adopted.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>House Journal</title>; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln1;node=lincoln1%3A95' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Amendment to an Amendment
                  Introduced in Illinois Legislature to an Act distributing the School Funds to the
                  Counties</xref>, [7 February 1837], <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 1:71.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1837-02-08'>Wednesday, February 8, 1837.</date>
            <place key='38.9500, -89.0833' teiForm='name'>Vandalia, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Senate resolution setting February 13, 1837 as last day for new business
            and 28th for adjournment is adopted, 60 to 10, Lincoln voting nay. He votes with
            majority to compensate Vandalia citizens for new state house, erected in 1836 without
            authority. He votes yea on passage of bill extending Shawneetown Bank
               incorporation.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>House Journal</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1837-02-09'>Thursday, February 9, 1837.</date>
            <place key='38.9500, -89.0833' teiForm='name'>Vandalia, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Douglas presents Sangamon petition for division of county. On Lincoln's
            motion bill is referred to select committee of Douglas, Dawson, Harris, Reddick, and
            himself. David Prickett is elected prosecuting attorney of first judicial circuit which
            includes Sangamon. Lincoln votes for him.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>House Journal</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1837-02-10'>Friday, February 10, 1837.</date>
            <place key='38.9500, -89.0833' teiForm='name'>Vandalia, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln votes against act to forbid circulation of state bank notes smaller
            than $5. He writes and reports from committee on Finance bill to relocate part of state
            road from Springfield to Lewiston. It is read twice and ordered engrossed.<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%3A96' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Bill Introduced in Illinois
                  Legislature to Relocate part of a State Road from Springfield to Lewiston</xref>,
               [10 February 1837], <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>,
               1:71-72.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1837-02-11'>Saturday,
  February 11, 1837.</date> 
            <place key='38.9500, -89.0833' teiForm='name'>Vandalia,
  IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> First direct move to gain capital for
  Springfield is made in attempt to repeal act of 1833 on permanent seat of
  government following referendum.<anchor corresp='n003' id='a003'/> Lincoln leads move for repeal and Dement of Fayette
  [Vandalia, county seat] opposes.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>House Journal</title>.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <note place='unspecified' id='n003' anchored='yes' target='a003'>Vote taken August 4, 1834 when Ninth General Assembly was
  elected produced virtual tie between Alton (8,157), Vandalia (7,730), and
  Springfield (7,075). Geographical Center (790), Peoria (424), and Jacksonville
  (273) were eliminated, setting the stage for contest between three leaders.
  <bibl default='NO'>Theodore C. Pease, ed.,
  <title>Illinois Election Returns, 1818-1848</title>, vol. 18 of
  <title>Collections of the Illinois State Historical
  Library</title> (Springfield: Illinois State Historical Library, 1923),
  94-96.</bibl> 
         </note>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1837-02-13'>Monday, February 13, 1837.</date>
            <place key='38.9500, -89.0833' teiForm='name'>Vandalia, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln reports from committee petition for three new counties. Committee,
            finding 1,437 names on petition for Sangamon division and 2,213 names on remonstrance,
            unanimously recommends rejection. He makes similar report on petitions from Montgomery
            and Shelby counties. Bridge bill in Lincoln's hand is introduced by William
               McMurty.<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%3A97' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Report to Illinois Legislature
                  on Petitions and Remonstrances Concerning Establishment of New Counties</xref>,
               [13 February 1837], <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 1:72;
                  <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln1;node=lincoln1%3A98' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Bill Introduced in Illinois
                  Legislature to Supplement "An Act to Erect Certain Bridges, Approved January 22,
                  1831"</xref>, [13 February 1837], <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 1:72-73.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1837-02-14'>Tuesday, February 14, 1837.</date>
            <place key='38.9500, -89.0833' teiForm='name'>Vandalia, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Fight to move capital occupies House through afternoon. Move to table bill
            until December 1839 is defeated 42 to 38.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>House Journal</title>; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln1;node=lincoln1%3A99' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Amendments Introduced in
                  Illinois Legislature to Senate Bill Permanently Locating the Seat of Government of
                  the State of Illinois</xref>, [14 February 1837], <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 1:73.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1837-02-15'>Wednesday, February 15, 1837.</date>
            <place key='38.9500, -89.0833' teiForm='name'>Vandalia, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln votes yea on bill to incorporate Illinois Beet-Sugar, Silk and
            Vegetable Oil Manufacturing Co. He opposes move to table bill relocating
               penitentiary.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>House Journal</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1837-02-16'>Thursday, February 16, 1837.</date>
            <place key='38.9500, -89.0833' teiForm='name'>Vandalia, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln reports from Committee on Finance annual income and expenses of
            state. Income is $57,895.15 and expenditures $55,151.95. Committee believes too little
            is allowed for contingent fund, and adds $15,000, producing deficit of $12,256.82.<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%3A100' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Report to Illinois Legislature
                  on Amount of Annual Revenue and Current Expenses</xref>, [16 February 1837],
                  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 1:74.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1837-02-17'>Friday, February 17, 1837.</date>
            <place key='38.9500, -89.0833' teiForm='name'>Vandalia, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Senate bill for permanent location of capital is before House. Motion to
            organize board to examine geographical center of state as possible site is defeated.
            Bill is tabled 39 to 38.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>House Journal</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1837-02-18'>Saturday, February 18, 1837.</date>
            <place key='38.9500, -89.0833' teiForm='name'>Vandalia, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Capital bill tabled yesterday is taken up. Motion to table until July 4,
            1837 fails after discussion. On Lincoln's motion, bill is tabled until Monday. He also
            has tabled motion to submit bill to referendum. He votes yea on resolution to adjourn
            February 27, 1837.<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), 105-7.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1837-02-20'>Monday, February 20, 1837.</date>
            <place key='38.9500, -89.0833' teiForm='name'>Vandalia, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln votes nay on tabling bill to amend act for construction of Illinois
            and Michigan Canal, approved January 9, 1836. [Bill is taken up on February 21, 1837,
            and passed 78 to 2.]<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>House Journal</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1837-02-21'>Tuesday, February 21, 1837.</date>
            <place key='38.9500, -89.0833' teiForm='name'>Vandalia, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln votes yea on bill amending act incorporating town of Alton, and yea
            on bill continuing charter of Bank of Kaskaskia. Motion to keep capital removal bill
            tabled is defeated 41 to 40, and bill is discussed.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>House Journal</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1837-02-22'>Wednesday, February 22, 1837.</date> 
            <place key='38.9500, -89.0833' teiForm='name'>Vandalia, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Omnibus divorce
  bill is amended to read, "and all other persons who are desirous of being
  divorced." Bill and proposed amendment are referred to Committee of the Whole.
  Lincoln votes with majority in refusing to put internal improvement bill to
  vote of people.<bibl default='NO'> 
               <title>House
  Journal</title>.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1837-02-23'>Thursday, February 23, 1837.</date>
            <place key='38.9500, -89.0833' teiForm='name'>Vandalia, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln and Sangamon delegation oppose move for constitutional
               convention.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>House Journal</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1837-02-24'>Friday, February 24, 1837.</date>
            <place key='38.9500, -89.0833' teiForm='name'>Vandalia, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Capital removal bill is read third time. Lincoln moves to amend by adding
            meaningless provision that "General Assembly reserves the right to repeal this act at
            any time hereafter," which is adopted, and the bill passes 46 to 37. Sangamon delegation
            votes yea.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>House Journal</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1837-02-25'>Saturday, February 25, 1837.</date>
            <place key='38.9500, -89.0833' teiForm='name'>Vandalia, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Senate reports concurrence in House amendments to relocation bill. Council
            of Revision reports rejection of internal improvement bill. Lincoln votes with majority
            to repass bill, 53 to 20. [Bill passes Senate Monday 23 to 13.]<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>House Journal</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1837-02-27'>Monday, February 27, 1837.</date>
            <place key='38.9500, -89.0833' teiForm='name'>Vandalia, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Bill to appropriate residue of Vermilion Saline lands to Vermilion County
            for bridge across Big Vermilion River is referred to select committee of five, which
            includes Lincoln. Evening session is devoted to discussion on per diem of members.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>House Journal</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1837-02-28'>Tuesday, February 28, 1837.</date>
            <place key='38.9500, -89.0833' teiForm='name'>Vandalia, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Senate joins House to select permanent seat of government. Springfield
            leads 20 towns on first ballot, and receives majority on fourth (Springfield 73,
            Vandalia 16, Jacksonville 11, Peoria 8, Alton 6, Illiopolis 3). Six other towns receive
            one vote each.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>House Journal</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>