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Resolved, That the Secretary of State be, and he is hereby authorised and required to deliver over to the present Board of Canal Commissioners of the Illionois and Michigan Canal, all such surveys, maps, charts, reports and other papers, made by former Board of Canal Commissioners, as may be necessary for the construction of the Canal.2
1On January 16, 1836, Samuel Hackelton introduced the resolution in the House of Representatives and the House adopted it. On the same day, the Senate adopted a similar resolution.
Illinois House Journal. 1835. 9th G. A., 2nd sess., 360.
2On January 9, 1836, the General Assembly passed an act for the construction of the Illinois and Michigan Canal. Section 7 of the act authorized the Governor to appoint a new three-person Board of Commissioners. Governor Joseph Duncan appointed William F. Thornton, Gurdon S. Hubbard, and William B. Archer, and the Senate confirmed their appointments on January 13.
John H. Krenkel, Illinois Internal Improvements, 1818-1848 (Cedar Rapids, IA: Torch Press, 1958), 40-41 Illinois Senate Journal. 1835. 9th G. A., 2nd sess., 294-96.
Printed Transcription, 1 page(s), Journal of the House of Representatives, at the Second Session of the Ninth General Assembly, of the State of Illinois (Vandalia, IL: J. Y. Sawyer, 1835), 360