Excerpt from Message From the Governor to the General Assembly of Illinois, Transmitting the Semi-Annual Reports of the Board of Commissioners of Public Works: Made in Compliance With the Tenth Section of the Act Establishing a General System of Internal Improvements The sum expended upon this river, up to the first Monday in this month, is For further particulars in relation to this part of the public improvement, reference is here made to the annexed report of the Commissioner of the third judicial circuit, and the accompanying documents. Thus the Board has presented a detailed statement of their Operations Upon the rivers. They will now proceed to give a detailed account of the several sums expended upon the several public works under their control; all of which will appear in the following table. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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