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Sec [Section]1 Be it enacted by the people of the state of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That so much of the work on the Great Wabash river as has been let and is now under contract under a compact between the States of Indiana and Illinois, shall be prosecuted in the manner prescribed by the terms of said compact and the
contracts made pursuant thereto, to final completion.
Sec. 2. A special Commissioner shall be elected by the present General Assembly to superintend said work on behalf of this state who shall hold his office until the first day of January 1841, and until his successor
is shall be elected and qualified, who shall perform the same duties in relation to
said work which by law were heretofore required to be done by the Commissioner of
the board of Public Works for the fourth Judicial Circuit, under an act entitled “an act to establish and maintain a general system of Internal
Improvement;” and said Commissioner shall be paid the sum of dollars per day, when necessarily employed, as a compensation for his services.
Sec. 3. It shall be the duty of such Commissioner to confer with the Commissioner or
authorized agent of the State of Indiana, and to adopt such measures as shall be best calculated to expedite the construction
and early completion of said work.
Sec. 4. The Commissioner aforesaid shall have power to draw upon the fund Commissioners
or other person or persons appointed and authorized to hold the funds belonging to,
and provided for, the purposes of Internal Improvement, for such sum or
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sums of money which shall be equal to that furnished by the State of Indiana for the construction of said work aforesaid, or shall hereafter be furnished and
paid by the said State of Indiana, not exceeding the amount originally appropriated for said work by the act aforesaid.
Sec. 5. The said Commissioner aforesaid shall execute to the Governor of the State of
Illinois a bond with good and sufficient security to be approved by the secretary of State
in the sum of twenty thousand dollars, conditioned for the faithful performance of
the duties enjoined on him by the provisions of this act.
Sec. 6. This act to be in force from and after the passage thereof.
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A Bill for an act to provide for the completion of the work under contract on the
Great Wabash river under the compact between the States of Indiana and Illinois.
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1Joseph G. Bowman introduced HB 167 in the House of Representatives on January 20, 1840. The House referred the bill to a select committee. The select
committee reported back the bill on January 28 with an amendment, in which House
concurred. On January 30, representatives offered amendments, and the House referred
the bill and proposed amendments to another select committee. The select committee
reported back the bill on January 31 with an amendment, in which the House concurred.
The House engrossed the bill, but did not read it a third time.
Journal of the House of Representatives, of the Eleventh General Assembly of the State
of Illinois, at Their Called Session, Begun and Held at Springfield, December 9, 1839 (Springfield, IL: William Walters, 1839), 212, 264, 296, 300, 311, 316-17.
Handwritten Document, 4 page(s), Folder 158, HB 167, GA Session 11-S, Illinois State Archives (Springfield, IL) ,