Statement of Payment from Sangamon County Commissioners' Court to Abraham Lincoln
for Surveying School Section, 4 September 1836
Springfield Sept 4th 1836
| To | Surveying section sixteen T 16 in said Township2 | $ | 12.00 |
| To | Mathew Morehead to 4 1/2 days as Trustee & Chain carrier. | $3 | 4.50 |
| " | Flemming Hall 4 days """" | $ | 4.00 |
| " | Benj Wiseman 4 days """" | $ | 4.00 |
The. Genl[General] School Fund of Sangamon County
To Erastus WrightDr
| To Services Managing the School Fund for said County Six Months preceding the 1st Sept 1836 |
175.00 |
| To— Office Rent & stationary | [ 10.00 |
| Town[Township] | 17— N[North] 3 W[West] To | Simeon Francis | for advertising school Lands | $3.50 | |
| " | 18 N 6 W. To | same | """ | 2.25 | |
| " | 19 N. 7 W To | same | """ | 2.75 | |
| " | 16 N. 1. W. To | same | """ | 1.00 | |
| " | 17 N 6 W To | same | """ | 1.00 | |
| The Genl School Fund Dr To S. Francis To charge advertizing Genl Nature of Distribution of School Fund |
1.00 |
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allowed Sept[September] Term, 1836
1In 1818, when Congress passed the act enabling the Illinois Territory to become a state, it granted to every township in the state the proceeds of the
sale of land in each township’s Section 16. This money became known as the common
school fund.
“An Act to Enable the People of the Illinois Territory to Form a Constitution and
State Government, and for the Admission of Such State into the Union on an Equal Footing
with the Original States,” 18 April 1818, Statutes at Large of the United States 3 (1846):428-31; W. L. Pillsbury, “Early Education in Illinois,” Sixteenth Biennial Report of the Superintendent of Public Instruction of the State
of Illinois (Springfield, IL: H. W. Rokker, 1886), 106-7.
Handwritten Document, 2 page(s), Lincolniana, Illinois State Archives (Springfield, IL).