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RAIL ROAD MEETING..4t a meeting of the citizens of Shelby county, convened at the Court House, 011 Monday the 19th day of October, being the term of the circuit court of said county : Ou motion of Daniel Gregory, Esq., Dr* Edmund Bagye was called to the chair, and Joseph Oliver, and Wtn. JfYdiamwm, Esqrs, appointed Secretaries. Mr. Gregory then stated the object of the meeting to be, the consideration of the construction of a rail road from the termination of the fl)lnoi and Michigan Canal through the interior counties of the* state, to the mouth of the Ohio river, and that Judge Breese would give to the meeting his views of the contemplated project. Judge Breese thereupon rose and addressed the meeting at some length on the subject.On motion, the meeting then adjourned to meet the next day.7ucsday, October 20, 1835.The meeting being called to order, Dr. Rayse in the chair, and IVm. /Tilliamson and Joseph Oliver, Esqr-J. Secretaries: Mr. Gregory offered the following Resolution?, which, after some remarks from the mover, Judge Breese, and Col. Prentice, were unam-imotisly adopted.Resolved, That it be recommended to the citizens of Shelby county in each magistrate’s distiict therein, to hold meetings at some con* venient time before the session of the Lcgisla-i . ture, for the purpose of expressing their opin-1 i ions and instructing their representatives to support a law, having for its object the loaning of money to construct a Rail Road from the termination of the Illinois and Michigan canal to the mouth of the Ohio river, and also to construct said canal jointly with said rail road.Resolved, That Gen.W. F. Thornton, Joseph Oliver, Esq., Wm. Williamson, Esq., Dr. T. B. Trower, Daniel Gregory, Esq. Dr. Edmund Basye, John O. Prentice, Levi Casey, Benj. q I Walden, Dr. Win. Deaden, Owen Prentice, a [Esq., Col. Peter Warren, John S. Gorden, John Tacket, J. H. Todd, Geo. Parks, John Doufhet, Lemuel Dazy, Win. L. Ward, B. W. Henry, G. 1 Kenzie, James Gooding, J. C Corley, and J. L. Fleming, be appointed a committee of Correspondence to interchange sentiments and views with such corresponding committees in the other counties through which the proposed rail road may pass, when said committees shall he organized, and also with such central committee as may be appointed at Vandalia.Resolved, That it shall be the duty of said committee, periodically, to give to the public, through the newspapers, the results of their correspondence. ' : ;On motion of B. W. Henry, Esq.,Resolved, That it be recommended to the citizens of this county to meet together at the Court House in Shelbyville, on the first Saturday in November,for the purpose of further consulting and deliberating on the said contemplated rail road.On motion, the meeting then adjourned to meet again on the 1st Saturday of Novembernext. EDMUND BASYE, Ch’rm.Wm. Williamson, Joseph Oliver,Secretaries.e1etfIfLer1esraJBe
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Sangamo Journal
Springfield, Illinois, US
Sat, Oct 31, 1835
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