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Resolved, That the commissioner of Public Works for the fourth Judicial Circuit, communicate to this House an exhibit of the amount of money expended by him upon the improvements of the Grand
Rapids of the Great Wabash river; and also a report of the progress and condition of said work, and the probable amount
it will cost to complete the same[.]
1Joseph G. Bowman introduced the resolution in the House of Representatives on December 13, 1839, and the House adopted it. On December 23 Milton K. Alexander, commissioner of the fourth judicial circuit, responded, and the House referred his
communication to the Committee on Internal Improvements.
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), 36, 76.
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