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"Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. Volume 1." In the digital collection Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/l/lincoln/lincoln1. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed March 19, 2024.
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Report to Illinois Legislature on State Expenses1Jump to section
[January 2, 1836]
The committee on Public accounts and expenditures, who were required, by a resolution of the House,2Jump to section to asscertain the probable amount of money necessary for defraying the expenses of the State for the succeeding year, report the following---
Contingent fund $ 4.000
Penitentiary 750
Interest on Wiggins loan 6.000
Governor's salary 1.000
Auditor's do 1.600
Treasurer's do 1.600
Sec. State's do 1.100
Supreme Judges do 4.000
Circuit do do 4.500
Attorneys do 1.850
Agent of Ohio Salines--- 200
Warden of Penitentiary 400
Public Printer 2.000
Counties on the Bounty tract--- 4.150
Special appropriations and incidental expenses 6.000
General Assembly for Session of 1836, 7 37.000 -----
Making in the whole 76.150
To which add the expenses of the present session of the General Assembly--- 13.000 -----
Total $ 89 150
Annotation
[1] AD, I-Ar. Lincoln wrote the report of the committee, but John D. Hughes delivered it to the House on January 2, 1836.