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1State of Illinois, Treasurer’s Office,
Vandalia, December 16, 1835.Sir:—
In conformity to a resolution of the House of Representatives, requesting the Auditor and Treasurer to make a report to the present General Assembly, of the receipts and expenditures of the public money, I have the honor to submit the following statement of the transactions of this office, from the first day of December 1834, to the 30th day of November 1835, inclusive, which presents the monthly receipts and pay-
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ments, and an account current, shewing on what account the receipts and disbursements were made, and the balance remaining in the Treasury on the last mentioned day; also an appended statement, shewing the balance in the Treasury on the present day.
All of which is respectfully submitted.
JOHN DEMENT, Treasurer of the State of Illinois.The Honorable,The Speaker of the House of Representatives.
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Illinois State Treasury Report
REPORT,
Of Receipts and Payments at the Treasury of the State of Illinois, from 1st December, 1834, to 30th November, 1835, inclusive.
Receipts. Payments.
1834. December, 5,853 [.] 98 1834. December, 4,034 [.] 33
1835. January, 12,607 [.] 01 1835. January, 13,210 [.] 44
" February, 53,440 [.] 02 " February, 28,577 [.] 94
" March, 16,249 [.] 63 " March, 4,583 [.] 66
" April, 2,377 [.] 91 " April, 3,849 [.] 60
" May, 358 [.] 58 " May, 4,285 [.] 17
" June, 141 [.] 15 " June, 3,362 [.] 99
" July, 1,409 [.] 72 " July, 4,789 [.] 93
" August. 2,997 [.] 68 " August, 1,993 [.] 30
" September, 890 [.] 00 " September, 1,321 [.] 40
" October, 947 [.] 85 " October, 7,469 [.] 91
" November, 352 [.] 98 " November, 875 [.] 60
97,626 [.] 51
To which add balance in Treasury, on 30th November 1834. 296 [.] 66
97,923 [.] 17 $78,606 [.] 27
78,606 [.] 27
$19,316 [.] 90
JOHN DEMENT, Treasurer.
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JOHN DEMENT, STATE TREASURER, IN ACCOUNT WITH THE STATE OF ILLINOIS.
Receipts.
To amount of balance in the Treasury on 30th November 1834. 296 [.] 66
To amount received from Sheriffs, (including $60 received on account of revised laws,) from 1st December 1834, to 30th November 1835, inclusive. 24,033 [.] 9[1]
To amount of taxes paid into the Treasury, during same time. 3,977 [.] 86
To amount of State paper funded, during same time. 216 [.] 98
To amount received from sale of Seminary lands, during same time. 14,570 [.] 52
To amount received from Trustees of James Hall, late Treasurer, during same time. 631 [.] 71
To amount received from County Commissioners Clerks, during same time. 11,617 [.] 25
To amount received for debts due the State Bank and Branches, during same time. 2,502 [.] 18
To amount received from the sale of Vermillion Saline lands, during same time.2 10,574 [.] 21
To amount received of School fund, during same time.3 27,832 [.] 20
To amount from sale of Gallatin Sa[l]ine Lands, during same time.4 454 [.] 79
To amount received from sale of Vandalia lots, during same time. 284 [.] 18
To amount of Redemption money received during same time. 930 [.] 72
$97,923 [.] 17
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Payments.
By amount paid (refund,) from 1st December 1834, to 30th November 1835, inclusive. 187 [.] 42
By amount of taxes refunded on lands redeemed, during same time. 341 [.] 66
By amount of Auditor’s Warrants paid, during same time. 69,103 [.] 70
By amount of Interest on State paper, during same time. 102 [.] 86
By amount of do.[ditto] on do., when funded, during same time. 42 [.] 48
By amount of do. on ditto., paid into Treasury on account of State Bank, during same time. 96 [.] 30
By amount of State paper burned, during same time. 1,085 [.] 50
By amount of interest on Loan of $100,000, to 1st July 1835.)5 3,000 [.] 00
By amount of Funded Stock redeemed, during same time. 3,391 [.] 26
By amount of Redemption money paid during same time. 1,255 [.] 09
78,606 [.] 27
Balance in the Treasury on 30th November 1835. 19,316 [.] 90
$97,923 [.] 17
REDEMPTION ACCOUNT.
To amount of Redemption money remaining in the Treasury on 1st December, 1834. 877 [.] 96
To amount of Redemption money received from 1st Dec., 1834, to 30th Nov.[November], 1835, inclusive. 930 [.] 72
1,808 [.] 68
By amount of Redemption money paid from 1st December 1834, to 30th Nov., 1835, inclusive. 1,255 [.] 09
$553 [.] 59
JOHN DEMENT, Treasurer.
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Appended Statement of John Dement
APPENDED STATEMENT.
To balance in the Treasury on 30th Nov. 1835, as above stated. 19,316 [.] 90
To which add amount of receipts into the Treasury, from 1st to 16th December, 1835, inclusive. 587 [.] 59
By amount of payments during the same time;
To wit:
Paid Auditor’s Warrants 5,853 [.] 70
"d Refund. 6 [.] 61
"d Interest on loan of $100,000 being the instalment due 1st January 1836. 3,000 [.] 00
8,860 [.] 31
Balance in the Treasury on 16th December, 1835. $11,044 [.] 18
JOHN DEMENT, Treasurer.
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 John Dement, the state treasurer, 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 Dement’s response with a report, requesting the House discharge it from further consideration, in which the House concurred.
Illinois House Journal. 1835. 9th G. A., 2nd sess., 65, 102-06, 206.
2 In 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.
3When 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.
4 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.
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, 5 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), 102-06