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<date value='1849-02-13'>Tuesday, February 13, 1849.</date>
<place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
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Lincoln presents five memorials of citizens of Illinois for grant of
land to aid railroad (Journal), and speaks on railroad grants.
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<xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln2;node=lincoln2%3A31' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Remarks in U. S. House of Representatives Concerning Disposal of the Public Lands</xref>, 13 February 1849, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:26-27.</bibl>
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He votes to amend yesterday's "Journal" to show that while rules were
suspended to allow Wallace of South Carolina to address House on
Wilmot Proviso, same courtesy was refused Ashmun of Massachusetts.
<bibl default='NO'>Globe.</bibl>
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