Sec.[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That the sum of twenty-three hundred dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated for the following purposes, to wit: First, to pay the sum of ten hundred and thirty-seven dollars and thirty-six cents, being the amount loaned by the Inspectors of the penitentiary to the superintendent of the building fund. Second, to pay the superintendent of said penitentiary, the sum of-five hundred and sixty-five dollars and sixty-three cents, being the amount expended by him out of his own funds for the use of said penitentiary. Third, to pay said superintendent of the penitentiary his salary, from the eighteenth of August, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight, at the rate of eight hundred dollars per annum, till otherwise ordered by the Inspectors of said penitentiary, or provided for by law. Fourth, the balance of said appropriation of twenty-three hundred dollars shall constitute a fund to defray the incidental expenses of said penitentiary, from and after the twenty-second of November, 1838.2

Sec. 2. The above appropriation shall be subject to the order and direction of the Inspectors of the penitentiary; and a detailed statement of the manner in which they expended the same shall be laid before the next General Assembly.

Sec. 3. The Auditor of Public Accounts is hereby authorized to draw his order on the Treasurer of the State, in favor of the Inspectors of the penitentiary, upon their application for the aforesaid appropriation.

Approved, January 19, 1839.