Strike out of the original all after the enacting clause and insert the following as an amendment
A Bill for an act creating a Board of Auditors
Sec 1 Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois represented in the General Assembly,
That the Auditor of Public accounts, Treasurer and Secretary of State are hereby created a Board of Auditors, whose duty it shall be to audit and settle the accounts of the late and present Board of Canall Commissioners. The present and former Canall ^The present & former Fund Commissioners^ Treasurers, The late Board of Commissioners of Public Works, and the Board of Public works.—The present Board of State house Commissioners, And to settle with such contractors as have been engaged in the system of Internal Improvement, as have not had their accounts adjusted, or rejected, And the successors of such of the above named officers as shall hereafter be elected, or appointed
Sec. 3. said Board of Auditors shall meet quarterly ^yearly or oftener if necessary ^^or oftener if they should deem it necessary ^at the seat of Govern

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sec 2. Said Board of Auditors shall meet quarter yearly, or oftener if they deem it necessary, and it shall be the duty of all of said officers and others contemplated in the first section of this act, to appear before said Board, or transmit a full and perfect statement of their said accounts, accompanied with all necessary vouchers and proofs for a full, fair, and final settlement of all their accounts.—And the said Board shall proceed immediately upon the appearance of said officers and others, for a settlement, or on receipt of said accounts and vouchers to audit and settlement adjust & settle said accounts the same; 0 And no account shall be presented before said Board, or audited by them which has not been contracted or created in pursuance of Law.
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panied with the necessary vouchers and proofs, for a full, fair and final settlemnt of all their accounts, which have been contracted or created in pursuance of Law., and none other
Sec. 3.—A majority of said Board shall be sufficient to do business, and they, or either of them, are authorized to administer oaths or affirmations to witness who may be brought before them, And said Board of Auditors shall keep and file in the office of the Auditor, a full and fair statement of all such accounts as shall be adjusted and settled before them; with duplicate, or certified copies of all such vouchers or other papers as may be laid before said Board, To the said ^so^ that the Governor and Legislature may be furnished with such information touching these branches of the public service as they may from time to time require.
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Sec. 4 Said Board are hereby authorized to summon the State House Commissioners The Canall Commissioners, The Canall Treasurer and the Fund Commissioner, or either of them, and their successors in office to appear before them for settlement or forward their accounts & vouchers at such times as they may Judge expedient and if said officers or either of them shall fail or refuse to appear when so summoned or within days thereafter it shall be the duty of said Board to notify the Governor thereof, and the Governor is hereby authorized and required to remove said officer or Officers from Office, and the vacancy or vacancies thus occasioned shall be filled by appointment by the Governor, And, such appointment shall continue until superceeded by an election in conformity to Law.

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from and after the first day of March next, ^he^ shall be removed from office by the Governor, and the vacancy thus occasioned, shall be filled by appointment by the Governor, and such appointment shall continue untill he it shall be superceded by an election in pursuance of Law.
Sec 5. It shall be the duty of said Board of Auditors to notify the Governor of any delinquency that may occur in the settlement of the accounts of all such officers as are described in fourth section of this act, it shall be the duty of said Board
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A Bill for an act ^to^ createinga ^permanent^ Board of Auditors
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Amendment from Judiciary Committee.

Handwritten Document, 6 page(s), Folder 25, HB 45, GA Session 12-2, Illinois State Archives (Springfield, IL) ,