Board resolutions, 1837-1914.

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Board resolutions, 1837-1914.

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Illinois and Michigan Canal Board of Canal Commissioners and Trustees resolutions concern state bond sales; illegal timber cutting on canal land; plank road right-of-way requests; $4,000 construction loan to Isaac Hardy for a La Salle hotel; canal indebtedness; railroad swing bridges; and Chicago sewage disposal.

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Illinois and Michigan Canal (Ill.)

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After the U.S. Congress granted nearly a hundred miles of public lands (between Lake Michigan and Illinois River headwaters) to the state of Illinois for canal construction (March 30, 1822), the General Assembly passed a canal bill (Feb. 14, 1923) establishing the Illinois and Michigan Canal Company. Following this company's failure, Congress donated Illinois land (March 2, 1827) "equal to one-half of five sections in width, on each side of the canal, reserving each alternate sectio...

Hardy, Isaac.

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