<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1841-02-01'>Monday, February 1, 1841.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln votes nay on three amendments to act to establish ferry at Peoria.
            He reports from Committee on Finance and recommends passage of bill authorizing certain
            debtors to discharge indebtedness in internal improvement scrip. Bill reorganizing
            judiciary is passed, 45-43, Lincoln voting nay.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>House Journal</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1841-02-02'>Tuesday, February 2, 1841.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln votes in favor of reducing size of future counties from 400 to 325
            square miles.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>House Journal</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> In Supreme Court, Lincoln and Strong for appellant and Logan for appellee
            argue <name type='case' key='L04225'>Elkin et al. v. People for use of
               Fleming, McIntire &amp; Co.</name> (Judgment of Sangamon Circuit Court affirmed
            January 12, 1842.)<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> Lincoln writes and signs praecipe, bond for costs, and declaration in
            Sangamon County Court case, <name type='case' key='L04154'>Neff, Wanton
               &amp; Co. v. Francis</name>.<bibl default='NO'>Herndon-Weik
               Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1841-02-03'>Wednesday, February 3, 1841.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln's name appears on two of three roll calls.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>House Journal</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> In Supreme Court, <name type='case' key='L04147'>Nichols v.
               Ruckells</name>, appeal from Sangamon, is argued by Logan and Lincoln for defendant.
            (On January 26, 1842, judgment of lower court is affirmed with costs.)<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> Lincoln writes Stuart on politics. He says he is "neither dead, nor quite
            crazy yet." Springfield is talking "the same everlasting subject&#8212;that of
            filling offices." He denounces judiciary bill.<bibl default='NO'>DNA&#8212;Unpublished letter.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1841-02-04'>Thursday,
  February 4, 1841.</date> 
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield,
  IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln introduces bill to supplement
  Springfield and Alton Turnpike Co. charter. On his motion, bill is referred to
  Committee on Internal Improvements. Act creating board of auditors to settle
  accounts of contractors on public works is passed, Lincoln voting aye.
  <bibl default='NO'> 
               <title>House
  Journal</title>.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Lincoln writes praecipe and
  declaration in <name type='case' key='L02786'>Brown v. Thomas
  &amp; Crowder</name>, assumpsit suit.<bibl default='NO'>Photocopy.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1841-02-05'>Friday, February 5, 1841.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln writes Stuart suggesting E. B. Webb for district attorney. "I
            really have my heart set upon Webb's appointment . . .; the whole party would be
            gratified with it." He informs Stuart of talk among Democrats of altering congressional
            district. In legislature, he presents remonstrance against Sangamon milldam.<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%3A255' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to John T.
                  Stuart</xref>, 5 February 1841, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 1:233.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1841-02-06'>Saturday, February 6, 1841.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Democrats table Whig resolution designed to suspend judiciary bill. Vote is
            45-35, Lincoln voting nay. He votes in favor of allowing fund commissioners to give
            state bonds for internal improvement and canal scrip, where holders desire it.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>House Journal</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1841-02-08'>Monday, February 8, 1841.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> On Lincoln's motion, House resolves itself into Committee of the Whole to
            consider committee reports on public lands. Lincoln writes circular for Whig committee
            protesting judiciary act. Signers are S. H. Little, E. D. Baker, J. J. Hardin, E. B.
            Webb, J. Gillespie, and Lincoln.<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%3A257' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Circular from Whig Committee
                  Against the Judiciary Bill</xref>, [8?] February 1841, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 1:234-37.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1841-02-09'>Tuesday, February 9, 1841.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln from select committee reports with amendments bill providing for
            election of public binder. Ross of Fulton from select committee reports act to divide
            money between counties of Cass, Menard, and Sangamon, with amendments. On Lincoln's
            motion, consideration is indefinitely postponed.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>House Journal</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1841-02-10'>Wednesday, February 10, 1841.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Bill authorizing debtors to discharge indebtedness in Illinois internal
            improvement scrip is passed 57-33, Lincoln voting aye. His name appears on seven roll
            calls resulting from moves of Whig members to forestall passage of new judiciary bill,
            council of revision having vetoed act. Bill finally passes 46-43.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>House Journal</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1841-02-11'>Thursday, February 11, 1841.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln's name appears on nine roll calls.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>House Journal</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1841-02-12'>Friday, February 12, 1841.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Senate resolution providing five additional Supreme Court judges is amended
            to provide also for president, acting commissioner, and treasurer of canal board.
            Lincoln votes aye on amendment. Whig bill to suspend judiciary act is referred to
            Committee on Finance.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>House Journal</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1841-02-13'>Saturday, February 13, 1841.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Amendment to election bill providing secret ballot is lost, Lincoln voting
            against it. House adopts Senate resolution favoring one term for President. Whigs vote
            against this move aimed at William Henry Harrison.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>House Journal</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1841-02-15'>Monday,
  February 15, 1841.</date> 
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield,
  IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln reports from Committee on
  Finance, with amendments, act supplemental to charter of Springfield and Alton
  Turnpike Co. On his motion, bill is tabled. Act for debtor relief is refused
  second reading, Lincoln voting nay.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>House Journal</title>.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1841-02-16'>Tuesday, February 16, 1841.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Senate bill for act regulating sale of property is referred to select
            committee of which Lincoln is member. House resolves itself into Committee of the Whole
            on apportionment bill. After various proposed amendments and parliamentary moves, bill
            is ordered engrossed, Lincoln voting nay.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>House Journal</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1841-02-17'>Wednesday, February 17, 1841.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> On Lincoln's motion, Springfield and Alton Turnpike Co. bill is taken from
            table and placed in orders of day. He moves to amend Springfield charter to allow all
            entitled to vote for state officers to hold office.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>House Journal</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1841-02-18'>Thursday, February 18, 1841.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln votes to reduce attorney general's salary from $1,500 to $1,000 but
            opposes similar move in respect to members of Supreme Court. I. N. Morris is elected
            president of board of canal commissioners. Lincoln votes for W. F. Thornton. He votes
            for Jacob Fry, who is elected acting commissioner of canal board.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>House Journal</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1841-02-19'>Friday, February 19, 1841.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln votes for Hardin of Morgan's amendment to Cass County boundary
            bill. He opposes move to extend Menard County boundaries.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>House Journal</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1841-02-20'>Saturday, February 20, 1841.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Apportionment bill passes House 46-37, Lincoln voting aye. He is put on
            committee to report on payment of interest on state debt, disposition of internal
            improvements, and canal.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>House Journal</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1841-02-22'>Monday, February 22, 1841.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> On question of printing 500 copies of report on Bank of Illinois, Lincoln
            votes nay. He votes with majority to construct railroad from LaSalle to Dixon and to
            charter Illinois and Rock River Railroad Co. to construct road.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>House Journal</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1841-02-23'>Tuesday, February 23, 1841.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln opposes all moves against Bank of Illinois. Motion by Trumbull of
            St. Clair to repeal bank's charter fails, 31-42. Bill providing for canal loan is
            refused second reading 34-36, Lincoln voting aye.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>House Journal</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1841-02-24'>Wednesday, February 24, 1841.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Morning is devoted to consideration of state bank bill. Lincoln defends
            bank. In evening session he introduces amendment to bill for payment of interest on
            public debt, which is adopted. Attempt to stop internal improvements is opposed by
            Lincoln and other Whigs.<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%3A268' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Discussion in Illinois
                  Legislature Concerning the State Bank</xref>, 24 February 1841, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 1:242-43.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1841-02-25'>Thursday,
  February 25, 1841.</date> 
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield,
  IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> On motion of Lincoln, bill supplemental
  to charter of Springfield and Alton Turnpike Co. is taken up and ordered
  engrossed. He takes active part in bank bill discussion. It finally passes, 43
  ayes and 38 nays, Lincoln voting nay.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>House Journal</title>.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1841-02-26'>Friday, February 26, 1841.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Petition of John Stuart presented by Lincoln is referred to select
            committee of Lincoln, Woodson of Greene, and Threlkeld of Coles. When Wickliffe Kitchell
            of Montgomery opposes Lincoln's canal bill amendment, Lincoln tells story of man who
            kept firing at squirrel in tree that turned out to be a louse on his eyebrow. Lincoln
            and 34 other House Whigs sign protest against judiciary reorganization.<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%3A270' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Remarks in Illinois
                  Legislature Concerning a Bill for Completion of the Illinois and Michigan
               Canal</xref>, 26 February 1841, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 1:243-44; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln1;node=lincoln1%3A271' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Whig Protest in Illinois
                  Legislature Against the Reorganization of the Judiciary</xref>, 26 February 1841,
                  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 1:244-49.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' type='Revised' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1841-02-27'>Saturday, February 27, 1841.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Bill for completion of Illinois and Michigan Canal passes 37-33, Lincoln voting
    aye. Speaker appoints standing committee on unfinished business composed of Lincoln, Leary of
    Cook, and Woodson of Greene. Lincoln votes to memorialize Congress to continue Cumberland Road
    to Mississippi.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>House Journal</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> At Robert Irwin &amp; Co., bank and general store, Lincoln opens a personal
    account with a balance of $32.50 in credit.<bibl default='NO'>Account (copy), 27
     February 1841, Irwin &amp; Corneau Account Book, 252, microfilm, IHi, Springfield,
    IL.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>