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<date value='1840-01-23'>Thursday, January 23, 1840.</date>
<place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
<p> Lincoln favors issuing scrip to continue work on canal. He explains that
people near canal also favor it and are willing to run risk. He helps table resolution
authorizing suit against signers of bond executed in Springfield to obtain state house.
(See March 22, 1838.)<bibl default='NO'>
<title>House Journal</title>.</bibl>
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