Excerpt from Report of the Canal Commissioners of the State of Illinois: Made to the Governor December 1, 1897 The State has expended large sums in the improvement of the Illinois River and the developments in this case seem to warrant the conclusion that adequate legislation is wanted to properly protect the rights of the State and to invest the Canal Commissioners with power to protect and control the improvements made by the State. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.