Whereas
By the authority of the several acts of Congress a number of locations of land warrants was made in the present State of Illinois previous to the General Survey of the Lands of the General Govern[ment] and [the] lines of said surveys do not correspond with the lines of the Public surveys, and Whereas The said public surveys was connected with said locations (commonly called private surveys) by calculation assuming as a data the area represented in said surveys which is found by admeasurement to be incorrect by which the Fractions adjoining said surveys does not contain the area represented on the Plats in the Land Offices which fact has in some instances prevented the sale of said Fractions and in other instances citizens purchasing sai[d] Fractions have been disappointed in the quantity of Land sold them

Therefore Resolved by [the] House of Representatives (the Senate co General Assembly of the state of Illinois That our Senators be instructed and our Representatives requested to use their exertion to procure the passage of a Law remedying the above namend greveince

Resolved That the Governor be requested to transmit to each of our Senators and Representative a copy of the foregoing