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Resolved, That the Auditor of Public Accounts be requested to report to this House, the number of acres of land sold at the Gallatin Salines;
The number of acres sold at the various prices as regulated by law, and the whole
amount realized from such sales as a Penitentiary fund;
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Also, the amount paid in by the Commissioner on the Penitentiary fund, and the amount drawn by the Inspectors of the Penitentiary from said fund, in addition to the special appropriation of ten thousand dollars
heretofore made for the use of the Penitentiary.
1On December 5, 1834, Lewis W. Link introduced the resolution in the House of Representatives. On December 8, 1834, the House received a response from the Auditor, which they
tabled. On December 16, the House referred the Auditor’s report to the Committee on
the Penitentiary.
Illinois House Journal. 1835. 9th G. A., 1st sess., 45-46, 72, 126.
Printed Transcription, 2 page(s), Journal of the House of Representatives of the Ninth General Assembly of the State of Illinois, at Their First Session (Vandalia, IL: J. Y. Sawyer, 1835), 45-46