Report of the Committee on Public Accounts and Expenditures regarding State Expenses
for 1836, [2 January 1836]
The committee on Public accounts and expenditures, who were required, by a resolution
of the House, to ascertain the probable amount of money necessary for defraying the expenses of
the State for the succeeding year, report the following—1
| Contingent fund | $ | 4,000 |
| Penitentiary | 750 | |
| Interest on Wiggins loan | 6,000 | |
| Governor's salary | 1,000 | |
| Auditor's saldo | 1,600 | |
| Treasurer'sdo | 1,600 | |
| Sec, State'sdo | 1,100 | |
| Supreme Judgesdo | 4,000 | |
| Circuitme Judodo | 4,500 | |
| Attorneysdo | 1,850 | |
| Agent of Ohio Salines— | 200 | |
| Warden of Penitentiary | 400 | |
| Public Printer | 2,000 | |
| Counties on the Bounty tract— | 4,150 | |
| Special appropriations and incidental expenses | 6,000 | |
| General Assembly for Session of 1836, 7 | 37—000 | |
| Making in the whole | 76,150 | |
| To which add the expenses of the present session of the General Assembly— | 13000 | |
| Total | $ | 89150 |
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Rept Com Pub accts & Expend.[Report of the committee on Public accounts and Expenditures]
Expenses of the year 1836
Expenses of the year 1836
1On December 22, 1835, the House of Representatives adopted a resolution ordering the Committee on Public Accounts and Expenditures, of which Abraham Lincoln was a member, to report the projected costs of the state government for the following
year. On January 2, 1836, John D. Hughes from the Committee on Public Accounts and Expenditures presented this report, in
the handwriting of Abraham Lincoln.
Illinois House Journal. 1835. 9th G. A., 2nd sess., 121, 206-207.
Handwritten Document, 2 page(s), Lincoln Collection, Illinois State Archives (Springfield, IL).