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Resolved, That the commissioners of the Illinois and Michigan canal be directed to report to this House, the entire amount of money by them disbursed since the commencement of operations
on said canal, under the head of contingent expenses, particularizing in said report
each item of said disbursement, and the particular object to which each payment was
made with the date of such payment.
1Isaac P. Walker introduced the resolution in the House of Representatives on December 13, 1839, and the House adopted it. On December 23, the commissioners
of the Illinois and Michigan Canal responded, and the House tabled this 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, 76.
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