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Resolved, That the Board of Commissioners of Public Works, be requested to communicate to
this House the terms and conditions of the compact or agreement entered into between the said
board and the Board of Internal Improvements of the State of Indiana, as authorized and directed by the 18th section of the act to establish and maintain
a general system of Internal Improvements.
1Joseph G. Bowman introduced the resolution in the House of Representatives on December 13, 1839, and the House adopted it. On December 18 William Prentiss, secretary of the Board of Public Works, responded, and the House tabled his communication.
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), 34, 53.
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