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Resolved, That the Auditor of Public Accounts be requested to communicate to this House the quantity of land bought by the State for taxes: the quantity redeemed, specifying also, the time at which said lands were purchased by the State, and the counties in which they are situated.2
1On December 16, 1836, John Hogan introduced the resolution in the House of Representatives, and the House adopted it. Levi Davis, the auditor of public accounts, responded on January 6, 1837.
Illinois House Journal. 1836. 10th G. A., 1st sess., 64, 188.
2Davis reported that the state held no land purchased for payment of taxes. Lands stricken off to the state from year to year were either been redeemed by the owners or re-offered the succeeding year and sold to others.
Illinois House Journal. 1836. 10th G. A., 1st sess., 188.

Printed Transcription, 1 page(s), Journal of the House of Representatives of the Tenth General Assembly of the State of Illinois, at Their First Session (Vandalia, IL: William Walters, 1836), 64