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Memorial of A. Whitney, praying a grant of public land to enable him to construct a railroad from Lake Michigan to the Pacific Ocean. February 24, 1846. Referred to the Committee on Public Lands, and ordered to be printed.

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  • Physical Description: 1 online resource (10 pages) : maps.
  • Publisher: [Washington, D.C.] : [publisher not identified], 1846.

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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.
Manifest Destiny.
Railroad construction workers.
Railroads > Design and construction.
Railroad land grants.
Surveying.
Transcontinental Railroad National Back Country Byway (Utah).
Cost.
Genre: Legislative materials.