JOINT RESOLUTION of the two Houses, authorizing the Fund Commissioner to appoint an
agent.
1Preamble.
Whereas, doubts have arisen, as to the power of the Fund commissioner to appoint an agent to act for him in bonding railroad iron at the port of New Orleans, be it therefore
Fund Com’r[Commissioner] to appoint agent
Resolved, And declared by the House of Representatives, the Senate concurring herein, that the Fund commissioner be, and he is hereby authorized to appoint an agent with full power to act for him in
this behalf, 2confirming the obligation of such bonds as have been signed by the agent, or hereafter
may be signed, and to do all other acts respecting the railroad iron which the Fund
commissioner could legally do, as such agent of the Fund commissioner.
WM. L. D. EWING,Speaker of the House of Representatives. S. H. ANDERSON,
Speaker of the Senate.
1On December 24, 1840, Ebenezer Peck introduced the resolution in the House of Representatives, and the House adopted it the same day. On December 24, the Senate amended the resolution
by adding text and then adopted the resolution as amended. On January 6, 1841, the
House approved the amendments of the Senate.
Journal of the House of Representatives, of the Twelfth General Assembly of the State
of Illinois (Springfield, IL: William Walters, 1840), 152, 158, 193; Journal of the Senate of the Twelfth General Assembly of the State of Illinois (Springfield, IL: William Walters, 1840), 111, 115.
2On December 24, 1840, the Senate amended the resolution by adding the text from this point to the end.
Journal of the Senate of the Twelfth General Assembly of the State of Illinois, 115.
Printed Document, 1 page(s), Laws of the State of Illinois, Passed by the Twelfth General Assembly (Springfield, IL: William Walters, 1841), 359,