Sec[Section] 1^st Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois represented in the General Assembly that the Auditor of Public accounts is hereby directed to issue his warrant upon the Treasurer of the State, to be paid from the canal fund2 in favor of Justus Post and Rene Paul for the sum ofdollars per day to be paid to them ^for the term actually occupied in the service of the^ and also any sums state under its authority as engineers in surveying and deliniating the canal rout from Lake Michigan to the Illinois River in the year 1824 and any sums actually paid out by them as expenses in said service.3

Sec 2^d And the said Auditor shall ascertain before issuing said warrant, from the Report of the Canal Commissioners [...?] [...?] vouchers as may have been furnished by them the number of days said engineers did spend in such service; and also take proof of such amt[amount] of monies as they may have actually have paid out while so employ^d & draw his

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his warrant for the amount, as aforesaid, deducting therefrom any previous payments which have been made to them, estimating the paper of the State Bank of Illinois at such rates as it was paid to other public officers at the time of such respective payment to said Post and Paul.

Sec 3 That there be allowed to Lewis [Byila?] Baily and such other persons, as may have claim for services rendered, in the employment of the State, or for monies expended, in and relating to the survey of said Canal in the years 1823 and 1824 to be established before the Auditor of Public accounts to have been rendered as paid, such sums, as shall appear to be justly due to each, not exceeding in the whole the sum of one hundred and fifty dollars, to be paid out of the canal fund, to be drawn on the warrant of the Auditor which he is hereby authorised to issue on such proof being made to him.