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Resolved, That the Board of Canal Commissioners be required to furnish to this House a statement, showing as nearly as they are able, the liabilities to be paid by the State, in case of the suspension of operations on the Illinois and Michigan Canal, namely: the amount of back money due to the contractors for work already performed, the amount to which they may be entitled for scaling, the full cost of machinery, houses and other improvements, which they have incurred, and the amount of damages to which they would be entitled, together with any other incidental charges against the State in the event of such suspension.
1Richard Murphy introduced the resolution in the House of Representatives on December 12, 1839, and the House adopted it.
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), 30.

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