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Memorial of Asa Whitney, praying for a grant of land to enable him to construct a railroad from Lake Michigan to the Pacific Ocean. January 17, 1848. Referred to the Committee on Public Lands, and ordered to be printed.

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  • Physical Description: 1 online resource (7 pages)
  • Publisher: [Washington, D.C.] : [publisher not identified], 1848.

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Batch processed record: Metadata reviewed, not verified. Some fields updated by batch processes.
FDLP item number not assigned.
Subject: Federal aid to transportation.
Railroad construction workers.
Railroads > Design and construction.
Railroad land grants.
Transcontinental Railroad National Back Country Byway (Utah).
Cost.
Lake Michigan.
Oregon Country (1818-1848)
Genre: Legislative materials.