Illinois Legislature--Joint Resolution in Relation to Enlarged Facilities of Transport Between the Great Lakes and the Atlantic Coast and Europe : Adopted ... the 14th day of February, 1863

Springfield? 1863. Illinois Legislature--Joint Resolution in Relation to Enlarged Facilities of Transport Between the Great Lakes and the Atlantic Coast and Europe: Adopted ... the 14th day of February, 1863

Four-page leaflet with printed text on page one only. Docketed note on back page. 8 x 5 3/8 inches. Printed on extremely thin stock. Light edge wear and soiling. Previously folded. Very good condition.

Resolution of the Illinois Legislature dated February 14, 1863, responding to the United States Congress for failing to aid the "northwest" states "in opening such enlarged [shipping] facilities as the necessities of the great food-producing West so imperiously demand."

The resolution goes on to create a five-person State committee to work with area states, the Provincial Government and Parliament of Canada and the Government of Great Britain to improve the transportation of "corn or maize." At the same time the resolution calls for "avoiding in a good degree the heavy tolls and charges that now so enrich the State of New York, at the expense of the Western farmer." A clear reference to the tolls of the Erie Canal.

The docket on back states, "Commissioners to Canada".

The only copy of this document is found at the Boston Athenaeum Library with none in commerce as of September 2025. Item #2148

Price: $20.00