Shipping record, 1897-1923.

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Shipping record, 1897-1923.

Entries include name and address of recipient of documents, title and number of documents sent, method of shipment, means of payment for charges, date sent, and occasional date of filing receipt. Documents shipped included blue books, Attorney General opinions, session laws, legislative journals, lists of corporations, and various reports.

Ledgers 14 volumes

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SNAC Resource ID: 7377166

Illinois State Archive

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Illinois. Office of Secretary of State

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The Office of Secretary of State, successor to the territorial Secretary, was established by the 1818 Constitution to keep both the state archives and a register of the Governor's official acts. The Secretary was appointed by the Governor until the 1848 Constitution made the office elective. In 1873, the Dept. of Archives and Index was created to "make and keep proper indexes to the executive records and all public acts, resolutions, papers and documents" filed with the Secretary of State. This ...

Illinois. Office of Secretary of State. Shipping Division.

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In 1819 the General Assembly passed an act requiring the Secretary of State to keep an account of postage used for official purposes (L. 1819, p. 254). Later a separate appropriation for a shipping clerk was provided by statute (L. 1895, p. 49). The Shipping Division receives and processes outgoing mail, incoming and outgoing express, parcel post mail and freight; provides storage space for publications and printed forms of the Secretary's office and distributes them as directed; maintains inven...