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Resolved, That the Board of Public Works be requested to inform this House when a report may be expected from Mr. Burr, engineer of the Wabash river.
1Jesse K. Dubois introduced the resolution in the House of Representatives on January 12, 1839, and the House adopted it. On January 16 William Kinney, president of the Board of Public Works, responded, and the House tabled this communication.
On January 25, Kinney transmitted to the House the report of David Burr, principal engineer of the project to improve navigation on the Wabash River. The House table the report, ordering it printed for distribution.
Journal of the House of Representatives of the Eleventh General Assembly of the State
of Illinois, at Their First Session, Begun and Held in the Town of Vandalia, December
3, 1838 (Vandalia,IL: William Walters, 1838), 204, 220, 280.
Printed Transcription, 1 page(s), Journal of the House of Representatives of the Eleventh General Assembly of the State of Illinois at their First Session (Vandalia, IL: William Walters, 1838), 204