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Resolved, That the Committee on Finance be instructed to enquire into the expediency of repealing
all laws creating and authorizing the system of internal improvements of this State, and of enacting such other laws as will authorize the sale of all the works and
property of every description thereunto belonging[.]
1Joseph W. Ormsbee introduced the resolution in the House of Representatives on November 28, 1840, and the House tabled 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