Mr. Hughes from the same committee, to which was referred the resolution requiring said committee
to enquire into
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the probable amount of the expenses of the Government for the next year, made the
following Report viz:
That the probable amount of money necessary for defraying the expenses of the State for the succeeding year, will be: For
| Continent Fund, | $4,000 |
| Penitentiary, | 750 |
| Interest on Wiggins Loan, | 6,000 |
| Governor’s Salary, | 1,000 |
| Auditor’s's Sdo. | 1,600 |
| Treasurer’s Sdo. | 1,600 |
| Secretary of State’s | 1,100 |
| Supreme Judges, | 4,000 |
| Circuit,e Juddo. | 4,500 |
| Attorneys, | 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 |
| To which add the expenses of the present session of the General Assembly | 13,000 |
| Total, | $89,150 |
Printed Document, 2 page(s), Journal of the House of Representatives of the Ninth General Assembly of the State of Illinois, at their Second Session, Begun and Held in Pursuance of the Proclamation of the Governor, in the Town of Vandalia, December 7, 1835 (Vandalia, IL: J. Y. Sawyer, 1835), 206-207