Papers Of Abraham Lincoln

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Resolved, That the Board of Public Works be requested to furnish this House with a tabular statement showing the amount paid and due, as well as the amount required to complete the following contracts, to wit:

The grading and bridging of 20 miles of the central Railroad, from Galena southerly:

The grading and superstructure of the same from Rock river to Illinois river:

The grading and superstructure, from Peru south eleven miles:

The grading and timber for superstructure from Cairo North:

The grading and superstructure of the Peoria and Warsaw Railroad, from Peoria to Farmington, and from Farmington to Canton:

The grading and superstructure of the Peoria and Warsaw Railroad, from Warsaw to Carthage and from Carthage to McComb:

The grading and superstructure of the Pekin and Bloomington Railroad from Pekin to Tremont:

The northern cross Railroad from Meridocia to Springfield, from Quincy to Columbus, and from Sidney, East, 36 miles, to Wabash; grading and timber for superstructure:

The Alton and Mount Carmel Railroad, from Alton to Edwardsville, grading and superstructure; and from Mount Carmel to Fairfield, grading and timber for superstructure:

The Alton and Shawneetown Railroad from Shawneetown to Equality, grading and timber for superstructure:

The Rushville and Erie Railroad from Rushville to Erie:

The great Wabash mail route:

The Darwin and Charlestown turnpike road from Darwin to Marshall, grading:

And that the said Board of Public Works furnish this House with their opinion as to the amount that will be required to indemnity the contractors on all roads under contract, and not embraced in the foregoing.

1William H. Henderson introduced the resolution in the House of Representatives on January 2, 1840, and the House adopted it. The Board of Public Works responded on January 6 with the requested tabular statement, which the House read and tabled.
Journal of the House of Representatives, of the Eleventh General Assembly of the State of Illinois, at Their Called Session (Springfield, IL: William Walters, 1839), 120-21, 132.