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Report to the Board of Supervisors

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language of a resolution offered by Mr. Galusha, one of the Committee on Resolutions plainly shows, which resolution we herewith submit: RESOLVED, That the Committee which has presented the report now before this meeting shall constitute the committee contemplated in the resolutions, and that we instruct them to secure the revision of the bill presented to the Legislature of the State at its last session by a committee appointed by the State Agricultural Society, and cause 1,000 copies of the bill to be printed also that they be instructed to secure the appointment of sub-committees in each of the representative and senatorial district in this State, whose duty it shall be to present a copy of said bill to each and every person whose name shall be before the people as a candidate for nomination that they will use all laudable endeavors, if nominated and elected to secure the passage of said bill, and that in case any candidate shall refuse or neglect to give such pledge such sub-committee shall publish the fact of such refusal throughout the district in which such candidate resides through the newspapers published therein. Prom the language of this resolution and that of those offered by the Committee on Resolutions, it was plain that the views of Prof. Turner and those acting with him were to be the programme for the action of the next legislature. We strenuously opposed this last resolution, but as it seemed to be a cut and dried affair, it passed. From these resolutions and the action of the Convention, your Honorable Board and the citizens of Eastern Illinois and particularly the citizens of Champaign County can plainly see that if they would forestall and defeat the projects of those who would place the matter of location in the hands of a Committee, the foremost of whom will be Prof. Turner of Jacksonville, they must bestir themselves and act boldly and promptly. Your Committee beg leave to add a few suggestions to the Board, and through you to the people of the County, suggestions drawn from conversation which we had with gentlemen from different portions of the State, in attendance at the Convention. The efforts made at the last meeting of the Legislature by the people of this county will not be lost.*? In every part of the State