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Resolved, That the Board of Public Works be requested to furnish this House without delay, a full and perfect statement of the amount of property now on hand, whether real or personal, purchased on account of the system of internal improvements, embracing lands, lots, depots, offices, shops, iron, and the varieties thereof, timbers, locomotives, tools and mechanical implements, where they are, and the expediency of selling them, with their opinion of the sum they would bring upon sale, and how far the proceeds of such sale would go towards paying the interest to be due and payable on the debt incurred on account of the system of internal improvements on the 1st January next.
1John A. McClernand introduced the resolution in the House of Representatives on November 28, 1840, and the House adopted it.
Journal of the House of Representatives, of the Twelfth General Assembly of the State of Illinois, Convened by Proclamation of the Governor, Being Their First Session (Springfield, IL: William Walters, 1840), 36.

Printed Transcription, 1 page(s), Journal of the House of Representatives, of the Twelfth General Assembly of the State of Illinois, Convened by Proclamation of the Governor, Being Their First Session (Springfield, IL: William Walters, 1840), 36