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Resolved by the House of Representatives, That the Governor be requested, to furnish this House with all the information in his power, or which he can obtain from the several laws
and accounting officers of this state, the amount of appropriations that have been made, by former legislatures, for the
benefit of the Illinois and Michigan canal; the amount of money received by the late Canal Commissioners for lands and town
lots, sold by said commissioners; the quantity of Canal lands that pre-
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emption rights have been granted, and who to; and the quantity that has been donated
to individuals.
1On December 9, 1834, John D. Hughes proposed the resolution in the House of Representatives. On December 11, the House amended the resolution and adopted it. On December 13,
Governor Joseph Duncan responded with a report from the Auditor of Public Accounts that included the information
requested. The House referred the report to the Committee on Internal Improvements.
That committee reported on December 18, and the House discharged the committee from
further consideration of the report.
Illinois House Journal. 1835. 9th G. A., 1st sess., 87-88, 114, 133.
Printed Transcription, 2 page(s), Journal of the House of Representatives of the Ninth General Assembly of the State of Illinois, at Their First Session (Vandalia, IL: J. Y. Sawyer, 1835), 87-88