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Resolved, That the Auditor of Public Accounts, be requested to furnish this House with a statement of the amount of moneys drawn from the Treasury of this State, to pay clerk hire, in the Treasury Department, for the year 1834—the names of the
persons employed—the length of time they were employed; and also the amount paid to
each individual for his services.
1On December 27, 1834, William Gordon introduced the resolution in the House of Representatives. On December 30, the House received a response from the Auditor of Public Accounts.
The House referred the Auditor’s report to the Committee on Public Accounts and Expenditures,
of which Abraham Lincoln was a member. The Committee reported back on January 7, 1835.
Illinois House Journal. 1835. 9th G. A., 1st sess., 168, 182-83.
Printed Transcription, 1 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), 168