[Report by Hon. Mr. Breese
Subtitle: from the Committee on Public Lands, with a bill granting to the state of Illinois a donation of land for completing the rail-road from Cairo to Chicago and Galena, thus uniting the upper and lower Mississippi with the chain of Northern Lakes.]
Series: 30th Congress, 1st session. Senate. Rep. Com -- no. 42
Publisher: Gov't Print. Off.
Published: 1848
Place of publication: Washington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 15
Notes: At head of title: Senate of the United States.

A bill passed Congress in Sept. 1850 providing for a grant of public land to the state of Illinois to aid in the construction of a railroad from Cairo by way of Galena to the northwestern angle of the state, with a branch to Chicago. In Feb. 1851 a charter was granted the Illinois Central Railroad Co. and it was authorized to build the road. cf. Poor's Manual, 1897, p. 453.