This agreement Witnesseth that Thomas Ford Governor of the State of Illinois for and on behalf of said State and Anson G Henry late state House Commissioner for himself mutually agree to submit all and singular all controversies and differences between the said state and the said Henry of and concerning the the receipt of money and the expenditure of the same in building the state House by the late Board of state House Commissioners to the arbitrament and final determination of Stephen J. Jankewictz Abraham Lincoln and Norman H Purple whose award or the award of a majority of whom is to be final and conclusive upon the parties. It is also agreed that all kinds of legal evidence written, oral, positive or circumstancial is to be admitted by said arbitrators and they are to try the cause in the manner and give such thought to the evidence as would be given to it by a jury

We the Undersigned Arbitrators having carefully Examined the accounts in refference to the matters within Submitted between the State of Illinois and A G. Henry late Treasurer of the Board of State house commissioners do find and award in favour of the State of Illinois against the Said Henry the Sum of Two hundred and Seventy One Dollars Witness Our hands & Seals at Springfield this 14^th day of July AD 1843