Papers Of Abraham Lincoln

In force, Jan.[January] 16, 1836.

AN ACT to regulate the salary of the Warden of the Penitentiary.
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Salary.

Sec.[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That hereafter the Warden of the Penitentiary, shall receive an annual salary of six hundred dollars, to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, on the warrant of the auditor, as other public officers are paid.2

Approved, Jan. 16, 1836.

1Benjamin Bond introduced SB 65, originally titled “A Bill to remove the Penitentiary, and Erect a State House at Vandalia,” in the Senate on December 31, 1835. The Senate referred the bill to a select committee, which reported back a substitute for the bill on January 8, 1836. The Senate approved the substitute and on January 12, they passed the bill as amended. The Senate then amended the title to read “A Bill to Regulate the Salary of the Warden of the Penitentiary.” On January 13, the House of Representatives referred the bill to the Committee on the Penitentiary, which reported back the bill without amendment on January 14. The House passed the bill on January 15. On January 16, the Council of Revision approved the bill and the act became law.
Illinois House Journal. 1835. 9th G. A., 2nd sess., 301, 306, 322, 335, 345, 358; Illinois Senate Journal. 1835. 9th G. A., 2nd sess., 135, 186, 193, 223, 252, 267, 280.

2In 1835, the General Assembly passed an act setting the salary of the warden at $300 annually. In 1837, the legislature increased the warden’s salary to $800 per year.