RESOLUTION in relation to unsurveyed lands in Illinois.
1Instructions concerning surveys.
Resolved by the House of Representatives
, (the Senate concurring herein,) That our Senators in Congress be instructed, and our Representatives requested, to use their best exertions to
procure an appropriation sufficient to put all the unsurveyed lands in the State of
Illinois under immediate contract; and that they urge on the Commissioner of the General Land Office the necessity
of prompt attention to this subject, in order that the numerous settlers thereon may
be enabled to purchase the land on which they reside.
1On December 10, 1838, James Craig introduced the resolution in the House of Representatives. The Senate passed the resolution on December 20. On January 5, 1839, the committee
on Enrolled Bills reported that they had laid the resolution before the Council of Revision.
Journal of the House of Representatives of the Eleventh General Assembly of the State
of Illinois, at Their First Session, (Vandalia, IL: William Walters, 1838), 52, 123, 164, 175; Journal of the Senate of the Eleventh General Assembly of the State of Illinois, at
Their First Session (Vandalia, IL: William Walters, 1838), 39, 97, 136.
2On February 18, 1838, Zadok Casey, a Democratic Congressman from Illinois, presented the joint resolution in the U.S. House of Representatives, which referred it to the Committee on Public Lands.
House Journal, 25th Cong., 3rd sess., 18 February 1838, 572.
Printed Document, 1 page(s), Laws of the State of Illinois, Passed by the Eleventh General Assembly (Vandalia, IL: William Walters, 1839), 298,