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Resolved, That the Auditor of Public Accounts report to this House, whether or not upon the order of the county commissioners court of Franklin and Jackson counties, the sum of one thousand dollars is not subject to draft by warrant from
his office, viz:
The sum of five hundred dollars to Franklin county, and the like sum to Jackson county. The same appropriated from the avails arising from the sales of the thirty thousand
acres of the Gallatin Saline reserve, approved February 15th, 1327, and the same amended and continued by an act approved December 19th, 1828, which
act required the one thousand dollars to Franklin and Jackson counties, to be payable out of the next avails of said sale, after the sum of fifteen
thousand dollars was realized.
And that the Auditor report whether or not the amount has been realized from the sale
of said lands, sufficient to secure
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the above named appropriations to Franklin and Jackson counties, and that the report give such information as may have been received by
any abstract report from commissioners of sales to said Auditor since his report,
dated Dec. 19, 1836. Also, that said report give the reason why, if any, the amounts
herein specified to Franklin and Jackson counties should not be paid upon the orders of the county courts of the above named counties.21On January 6, 1837, Achilles D. Dollins introduced the resolution in the House of Representatives. On January 12, the House received a response from Levi Davis, the Auditor of Public Accounts. The House referred that communication to a select
committee. On January 17, Achilles D. Dollins from the select committee introduced HB 134 in the House.
Illinois House Journal. 1836. 10th G. A., 1st sess., 186-187, 245-246, 282-83.
2On January 9, State Auditor Levi Davis replied to these queries from the House of Representatives, and the House received them on January 12. Davis stated that $18,222.08 had been
collected from sales of the Gallatin saline reserve lands. Following the law, the Commissioner had paid the money directly to other appropriations
instead of to the State Treasury. In 1835, the General Assembly had passed a law requiring the Commissioner of Sales to pay proceeds from sales directly into the
State Treasury and since that time, $2,183.23 had been deposited into the Treasury
from sales of the Gallatin saline lands. The Auditor reported that of that amount,
$480 was available to pay towards the appropriations for Franklin and Jackson Counties.
Illinois House Journal. 1836. 10th G. A., 1st sess., 245-46.
Printed Transcription, 2 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), 186-187