Lincoln completes survey begun yesterday. On March 5, 1834 county commissioners allow him six dollars from funds of township.County Commissioners Record D, 5 March 1834; Record in office of County Supt. of Schools of Sangamon County.

[On June 2, 1834, county commissioners allow him $6.50 additional.Record D.]

In letters to two fellow Whigs, Lincoln expresses a desire to run for Congress. Lincoln asks his "personal friend" Richard S. Thomas, of Virginia, Illinois, to correct the "mistaken" notion of "any one" under the impression "that Lincoln don't want to go to Congress." Lincoln also makes his ambition known to Alden Hull, "to whom I may, without fear, communicate a fact which I wish my particular friends...to know." Lincoln considers Hull, of Tazewell County, to be "a good whig, and an honorable man." Abraham Lincoln to Alden Hull, 14 February 1843, CW, 1:306-7; Abraham Lincoln to Richard S. Thomas, 14 February 1843, CW, 1:307.

Lincoln receives letter from Herndon defending Polk.Abraham Lincoln to William H. Herndon, 15 February 1848, CW, 1:451-52.

He votes to table motion to expunge Ashmun's January 3, 1848 amendment, and presents petition praying that Congress make same bounty land provision for veterans of War of 1812 as for Mexican War soldiers.Globe.