Whereas, the speedy location and completion of the Cumberland road, west of Vandalia, through this State, to the Mississippi river, is a subject of vital interest to this State, and more especially to the counties through which the same must pass; and whereas the delay on the part of the General Government to continue said road to the western borders of this State has occasioned repeated and deep complaints on the part of our citizens, and has, to a very great degree, retarded the prosperity and per-

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manent settlement of the counties through which the same must pass, and while our citizens are thus kept in suspense, it must necessarily check, to a great degree, all enterprise and permanent improvements on said contemplated route: Therefore,

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the General Assembly of the State of Illinois, That our Senators in Congress be instructed and our Representatives requested to use their best exertions to procure the passage of a law in Congress providing, for the speedy location of said road to some eligible point on the Mississippi river.

Resolved, That while the General Assembly express our decided preference for said road to pass by way of Alton; yet we believe the claims of Alton are such as to hazard nothing by leaving the direction of the road to the General Government.

Resolved, That the Governor be requested to cause copies of the foregoing preamble and resolutions to be forwarded to each of our members in Congress