In force, 11th Feb. 1837
AN ACT to compensate the several persons for labor done, materials furnished, and cash advanced on the new State House.
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Appropriations
F. Leeds
E. Capps
H. Smith
H. Ratman
C. Awick
H. Thompson
T. A. Gatewood
A. & H. Lee
T. B. Hickman
J. Taylor & W. Hodge
J. Hall
D. B. Waterman
J. Hankins
L. Lee
Lt. Freeman
J. Davidson
Sec.[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois represented in the General Assembly, That the several sums of money hereinafter mentioned be paid to the persons hereinafter named, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated: that is to say, to James Black for cash advanced and materials furnished, sixty-three dollars and ninety-four cents. To Frederick Leeds for labor, twenty dollars and twenty-five cents. To Ebenezar Capps for cash advanced and materials furnished, two hundred and eleven dollars and sixty-two and a half cents; to Frederick Remann for materials furnished, ten dollars and twenty-five cents; to Henry Smith for materials furnished, two hundred and twenty-seven dollars and twenty-nine cents; to Henry Ratman for labor, twenty-eight dollars and twenty-five cents; to William C. Greenup, for taking down old
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state and bank houses, and digging out the foundation of the new state house, three hundred and ten dollars twelve and a half cents; to Christian Awick for labor three dollars; to Harrison Thompson for shingles, one hundred and twenty dollars; to Thomas A. Gatewood for work done, eighty dollars; to Charles Prentice for cash advanced and materials furnished, eighty-nine dollars and twenty-five cents; to Asahel and Harvey Lee for lumber furnished and workmanship performed, one thousand seven hundred and twenty-three dollars and fifty-five cents; to Thomas B. Hickman for flooring, twenty-two dollars; to John Taylor and Wm. Hodge for joiner work and forming plan, five hundred and thirty dollars; to John Hall for rock and lime furnished, two thousand and fourteen dollars and fifty cents; to David B. Waterman & Co. for masonry, brick and plastering, three thousand six hundred and fifty-five dollars and ninety cents; to James Hankins for dressing floor, seventy-five dollars; to James T. B. Stapp for cash advanced, fifty dollars; to Lemuel Lee for cash advanced, fifty dollars; to William Linn for cash advanced, fifty dollars; to Robert Blackwell for cash advanced, fifty dollars; to R. K. McLaughlin for cash advanced, fifty dollars; to Frederick Remann for cash advanced, fifty dollars; to William Linn for materials furnished, seven hundred and forty-eight dollars and ninety cents; to E. Smith ten dollars; to Lt. Freeman for measuring State house, ten dollars; to John Davidson for blacksmith work, fifteen dollars.2
When several sums paid to be in full for all materials and money advanced, and allowance ever to be made to any person whatever
Sec. 2. The several sums appropriated in the first election of this act shall, when paid, be in full for all materials furnished, money advanced, and work and labor done to and upon said State house up to this time, and that no further allowance shall ever hereafter be made for the same to any person whatever.3
Approved 11th February, 1837.
1Robert K. McLaughlin from a joint select committee, to which the General Assembly has referred that part of Governor Joseph Duncan’s message relating to public buildings, introduced SB 108 in the Senate on January 23, 1837. On January 25, the Senate tabled the bill. On January 27, the Senate took up the bill, amending it by replacing the second section. The Senate passed the bill as amended on January 30. On February 8, the House of Representatives concurred by a vote of 53 yeas to 22 nays, with Abraham Lincoln voting yea. On February 11, the Council of Revision approved the bill and the act became law.
Illinois House Journal. 1836. 10th G. A., 1st sess., 433, 470, 479, 524, 557-58; Illinois Senate Journal. 1836. 10th G. A., 1st sess., 272, 287, 291, 310-311, 320, 378, 395, 400.
2Illinois state officers had approved the construction of a new state house building in Vandalia due to the dilapidated condition of the old building, and the new structure housed the legislature beginning in December 1836. Appropriations for that construction were not made in advance. In February 1837, joint select committee urged the appropriation of $10,378 to pay unpaid construction bills remaining on the $16,378 total.
Report of a Joint Select Committee, 4 February 1837, Illinois House Journal. 1836. 10th G. A., 1st sess., 478-79; Paul E. Stroble, “The Vandalia Statehouse and the Relocation to Springfield,” Illinois Heritage 2 (Spring-Summer, 2000), 14-15.
3On January 27, 1837, the Senate amended the bill by striking out the original second section and adding this section.
Illinois SenateJournal. 836. 10th G. A., 1st sess., 311.

Printed Document, 2 page(s), Laws of the State of Illinois, Passed by the Tenth General Assembly (Vandalia, IL: William Walters, 1837), 323-24, GA Session: 10-1