Cash accounts, April 1837-February 1840.

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Cash accounts, April 1837-February 1840.

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Chronological accounts are of receipts and disbursements made by Fund Commissioners. They include date and amount of receipt or disbursement, name of payee or palyor, cause for receipt (e.g. sales of state bonds) or disbursements (e.g., right-of-way purchases, payments to contractors for estimates and consturction, interest payments on state bonds, purchases fo locomotives and passenger and freight cars), name of internal improvement project involved, name of Commissioner of Public Works in charge of project and number of draft on which paid. Also included are lists of various state bonds and other indebtedness canceled by Fund Commissioners (1838-1846) including internal improvement and canal bonds and scrip, Illinois Bank and internal improvement stock, new internal improvement stock and interest bonds of 1847.

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Illinois. Board of Public Works

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The Board of Commissioners of Public Works was created by 1837 act (l. 1837, p. 121). Board was primarily responsible for locating, superintending and constructing all internal improvement projects authorized by General Assembly except for Illinois and Michigan Canal. Board was also empowered to enter and purchase public land lying within five miles of probable project routes and to lay out and sell town sites along routes. In 1840 original seven-member Board was replace...

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Illinois. Board of Fund Commissioners

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The Board of Fund Commissioners was created by l. 1837, p. 121. Board contracted for and negotiated all loans authorized by General Assembly for internal improvements and signed and executed all bonds or stock certificates issued for such loans. Monies received from proceeds of loans were deposited at State Bank of Illinois and Bank of Illinois at Shawneetown. These deposits were used to pay drafts issued on Fund Commissioners by Board of Commissioners of Public Works for expenditur...