Lincoln receives "dunn" from P. H. Hood & Co. for $5.38 and one from Walter Harper & Co. for $8.50 for goods purchased by Mrs. Lincoln. He hesitates to pay them, because, as he recalls, she told him when she left that no bills remained unpaid.Abraham Lincoln to Mary Todd Lincoln, 2 July 1848, CW, 1:495-96.

In House Lincoln speaks on bill changing time of holding courts in western Virginia and raising judge's salary from $1,600 to $2,500. He votes to strike out salary raise.Remarks in U. S. House of Representatives Concerning Salary of Judge of Western District in Virginia, 28 June 1848, CW, 1:494-95.