Lincoln gives notice he will "on monday next, or some day thereafter," ask leave to introduce bill entitled an "act to limit the jurisdiction of Justices of the Peace." Day is given over largely to such notices. State education convention, to which Lincoln is delegate, meets.House Journal; Photocopy; Notice to Illinois Legislature of a Bill to Limit Jurisdiction of Justices of Peace, [5 December 1834], CW, 1:26.