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Resolved, That the Board of Commissioners of the Illinois and Michigan canal be requested to communicate to this House any information
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they may possess relative to the feasibility and probable cost of rendering the Fox river navigable to the northern boundary line of this State.
1Joseph W. Churchill introduced the resolution in the House of Representatives on January 12, 1839, and the House adopted it. On January 19, the Board of Commissioners
of the Illinois and Michigan Canal responded, and the House tabled this communication and the accompanying report.
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), 203-204, 243.
Printed Transcription, 2 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), 203-204