Resolved by the General Assembly of the State of Illinois, That the Legislature of the State of Indiana be requested to pass a law, at its present session, declaring at what points the State of Indiana will meet the State of Illinois, at the line dividing the two States, in the construction of the easterly ends of the Northern Cross railroad and the Alton and Shelbyville railroad in Illinois, to the end that the State of Illinois may meet the State of Indiana in the construction of the said works, and their continuation of the said works to the intersection of the Erie and Wabash canal in Indiana; and, also, that the Legislature of Indiana provide in said act that, if the State of Illinois deem it proper to construct such connection from the State line to the said canal, herself, and on her own account, the right of way for such construction be indefeasibly granted to her: Provided said State of Illinois elect to do so during the present session of her Legislature.

Resolved, That the Governor be requested to transmit the above resolution to the Governor of the State of Indiana, with a request to lay the same before the Legislature of that State, now in session.