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1State of Illinois, Auditor’s Office,
Vandalia, December 16th, 1835.To the Hon. the Speaker of the House of Representatives,Sir,
In compliance with the resolution of the House of Representatives of the 15th inst. I have the honor to submit the enclosed statements marked “No. 1” and “No 2” shewing the total amount of Receipts and Expenditures at the Treasury, during the year ending with the 30th of November, 1835.
I have the honor to be,
Very Respectfully,
Your obedient servant,LEVI DAVIS, Aud. Pub. Accts.[Auditor of Public Accounts]
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12/16/1835Statement of Levi Davis regarding Receipts and Expenditures of the Illinois Treasury
Total amount of Receipts and Expenditures at the Treasury, from the 30th November, 1834, to 30th November, 1835.
On what account received. Amount. Amount.
Amount remaining in the Treasury 30th November, 1834 $296,66
Amount received from non-residents, 3977,86
Amount received from sheriffs, 24033,91
Am’t[Amount] received from sale of Vandalia lots, 284,18
Amount received from sales of seminary lands, 14570,52
Amount of State paper funded including interest on same, 216,98
Amount received from the revenue clerks, 11617,25
Amount received from the Trustees of James Hall, late treasurer, 631,71
Amount received from debts due the State Bank and Branches, 2502,18
Amount received from sales of Vermilion Saline lands,2 10574,21
Amount received from sales of Gallatin Saline lands,3 454,79
Amount received of commissioners of school fund,4 27832,20 =96992,45
To this add the amount of redemption money received, 930,72
Total amount,
L 		$97923,17
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Amount of Auditor’s Warrants paid at the Treasury from 30th Nov.[November] 1834 to 30th Nov. 1835, $69103,70
Amount of money refunded, 187,42
Amount paid interest on the loan of $100,000 to 1st July, 1835,5 3000,00
Amount of interest allowed on State paper received for taxes 102,86
Amount of interest allowed on State paper funded at the Treasury, 42,48
Amount of funded stock redeemed at the Treasury, 3391,26
Amount of State paper burned, 1085,50
Amount of taxes refunded on lands sold for taxes and redeemed, 341,66
Amount of interest allowed on State paper received on account of State Bank, 96,30
Amount of redemption money paid out, 1255,09 =78606,27
Leaving a balance in the Treasury on the 30th Nov. 1835, of $19316,90
REDEMPTION ACCOUNT.
Amount of redemption money remaining in the Treasury on the 1st of Dec. 1834, $877,96
Amount of redemption money received from 30th Nov. 1834, to 30th Nov. 1835, 930,72 =1808,68
From this sum deduct the amount of redemption money paid out during the same time 1255,09
Leaving a balance of redemption money in the Treasury on the 1st of December, 1835, of $553,59
Amount of Auditor’s Warrants drawn on the Treasury from the 30th Nov. 1834, to 30th Nov. 1835, for the current expenses of the State, and charged to the following accounts, viz:
The General Assembly session 1834 and
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1835, $23609,88
The Judiciary, 7117,46
The Governor, 873,28
The Secretary of State, 1075,00
The Auditor, 1831,02
The Treasurer, 1652,05
Circuit Attorneys, 906,06
The Attorney General, 349,73
Special Appropriations, 13561,95
Incidental expenses, 704,53
Contingent Fund, 878,11
Warden of the Penitentiary, 360,10
Penitentiary Inspectors, 200,00
Counties on the Military Tract, 4150,00
Postage, 363,34
Militia, 815,00
Contingent Fund for Penitentiary, 1250,00
Interest on funded stock, 293,11
Appropriations for Great Wabash, 6686,71
Appropriations for Penitentiary, 62,10 =66739,43
Amount of outstanding Warrants against the treasury, on the 1st Dec. 1835, 2190,01
To which add the amount of school fund Warrant, 28283,80
30473,81
From this sum deduct the amount of money in the Treasury on the 30th of November, 1835 19316,90
Leaving a balance against the Treasury on the 1st Dec. 1835, of $11156,91
The following sums become due to the State in March and April, 1836:
From the Revenue Clerks, $36357,25
From Sheriffs, 6722,08 =43079,33
State of Illinois, Auditor’s Office,
Vandalia, Dec. 16, 1835.LEVI DAVIS, Aud. Pub. Acc’ts.[Auditor of Public Accounts]
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12/16/1835Statement of Levi Davis regarding Receipts and Expenditures of the Illinois Treasury
NO. 2.
A statement of the amount drawn from the Treasury on account of the Contingent Fund, from 30th November, 1834, to 30th November, 1835.
1834.
Dec. 1. To John S. Roberts for work done on State House, 5,00
" Warrants to John D. Hughes for the apprehension of Hopkins and Johnson, fugitives from justice, 103,50
" Warrants to Wm. Redmond for work done on State House, 38,75
" Warrants to Bryant Whitfield for work done on State House, 27,00
6. " Warrants to William D. Haynie for repairing State House and furnishing materials, 11,00
" Warrants to R. Porter for materials furnished for plastering State House, 6,00
10. " Warrants to Thomas A. Gatewood for work done on State House, 5,16
16. " Warrants to S. & J. Francis for publishing Govr’s[Governor's] Proclamation for the apprehension of N. Payne, 9,50
20. " Warrants to D. Merrill for the apprehension of H. Shouse, a fugitive from justice, 100,00
22. " Warrants to Abraham & Wm. Duncan for the apprehension of Hezekiah Garret, a fugitive from justice, 200,00
1835.
Jan. 21. " Warrants to Francis Arenz for publishing Gov’rs. Proclamation for the apprehension of N. Payne & E. Hankins, and holding Congressional election, 12,00
22. " Warrants to J. G. Edwards for
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publishing Gov’rs Proclamation relative to the Penitentiary, for Congressional election, apprehension of Sullivan, Adj’t Gen.[Adjutant General] notice, &c.[etc.], 14,50
" Warrants to Joseph Hocket for repairing State House, 3,00
Feb. 3. " Warrants to Brooks & Petit for special election in 3d Congressional District, 3,00
13. " Warrants to J. T. Bradley and J. C. Sprigg for copying Rail Road and Canal bills, 13,00
14. " Warrants to J. Demint for conveying School fund from St. Louis, and for services in depositing $3000 in Bank at St. Louis, and obtaining a check to pay interest on loan, 195,00
1834.
Dec. 1. " W. D. Haynie for work done on State House, (omitted above,) 8,00
1835.
March 20. " Warrants to John C. Sprigg for making out certified copies of certain laws for the use of the Executive, 25,50
June 4. " Warrants to Gatewood and Oliver for publishing Governor’s Proclamation relative to elections, &c. 7,50
15. " W. E. Woodruff for advertising in the Arkansas Gazette the Gov’rs[Governor's] Proclamation for the apprehension of Hezekia Garrett, 5,00
20. " R. W. Clarke for publishing Gov’rs Proclamation for the apprehension of N. Payne, 3,00
July 21. " Warrants to J. Y. Sawyer for publishing Gov’rs Proclamation in relation to the Shaw-
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neetown Bank, and for election of Senator of Jo Daviess county,



11,80
Aug. 31. " Warrants to J. S. Gordon for hair furnished for plastering State House, 3,50
" Warrants to Wm. H. Hockett for repairing State House, 1,50
" Warrants to William P. Milton for advertising H. Garrett, a fugitive from justice, 7,00
Oct. 10. " Warrants to T. Condit for services and expenses in removing Public Records from Vandalia to Rushville, 44,00
31. " Warrants to John Y. Sawyer in full for publishing Gov’rs Proclamation, Legislature & Treasurer’s notice; of what kinds of money would be received into the Treasury, 14,90 ==123,70
$878,11
State of Illinois, Auditor’s Office,
Vandalia, Dec. 16th, 1835.LEVI DAVIS, Aud. Pub. Acc’ts.
1On December 15, 1835, John D. Hughes introduced a resolution in the House of Representatives, requesting information on receipts and expenditures of public money from the state auditor and state treasurer. The House received the response from Levi Davis, the auditor of public accounts, on December 18, and the House referred it to the Committee on Public Accounts and Expenditures of which Abraham Lincoln was a member. On January 2, 1836, the committee reported back Davis’s response with a report, requesting that the House discharge it from further consideration, in which the House concurred.
Illinois House Journal. 1835. 9th G. A., 2nd sess., 65, 96-102, 206.
2In 1827, the General Assembly petitioned Congress for permission to sell 30,000 acres in either Gallatin County or Vermilion County. The state would use the revenue realized from the sales for public works. An area on the Vermilion River in Vermilion County was eventually selected for sale, and the General Assembly, anticipating congressional approval, enacted a law in 1829 establishing the mechanism for the sale and appropriating the revenue received therefrom. Selling portions of the Saline Reserve Lands and appropriating the proceeds for public works was a forerunner of the Illinois Internal Improvement System.
“An Act concerning the Saline Reserves, a Penitentiary, and the Improvement of Certain Navigable Streams,” 15 February 1827, The Revised Code of Laws, of Illinois (1827), 353-60;“An Act Providing for the Sale of the Vermilion Saline Reserve, and Appropriating the Avails Thereof,” 19 January 1829, The Revised Code of Laws, of Illinois (1829), 143-49.
3 In February 1831, the General Assembly passed a resolution asking Congress to allow the state to sell 20,000 acres in Gallatin County. The state would use the revenue realized from the sales for public works. Anticipating congressional approval, the General Assembly passed the 1831 act that appropriated the proceeds from the sales to various counties in the state. Selling portions of the Saline Reserve Lands and appropriating the proceeds for public works was a forerunner of the Illinois Internal Improvement System.
“An Act Appropriating a Portion of the Avails Arising from the Sale of the Saline Lands, in Gallatin County, to Internal Improvement,” 16 February 1831, The Laws of Illinois (1831), 12-16; U.S. House Journal. 1830. 21st Cong., 2nd sess., 14 February, 302.
4When Congress passed the act enabling the Illinois Territory to become a state, it granted to every township in the state the proceeds of the sale of land in each township’s Section 16. This money became known as the common school fund.
“An Act to Enable the People of the Illinois Territory to Form a Constitution and State Government, and for the Admission of Such State into the Union on an Equal Footing with the Original States,” 18 April 1818, Statutes at Large of the United States, 3:428-31; W. L. Pillsbury, “Early Education in Illinois,” in Sixteenth Biennial Report of the Superintendent of Public Instruction of the State of Illinois (Springfield, IL: H. W. Rokker, 1886), 106-07.
5In 1831, the General Assembly had authorized borrowing $100,000 from Samuel Wiggins to replenish the school fund, from which the legislature had borrowed to pay state expenses, and to redeem State Bank of Illinois bank notes, which the state had purchased at a heavy discount and which became due in 1831 at face value in specie.
Reg Ankrom, Stephen A. Douglas: The Political Apprenticeship, 1833-1843 (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2015), 79-80.

Printed Transcription, 6 page(s), Journal of the House of Representatives, at the Second Session of the Ninth General Assembly, of the State of Illinois (Vandalia, IL: J. Y. Sawyer, 1835), 97-102