This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1846 edition. Excerpt: ... Circuit Court of Sangamon county against the real estate of William Kinney, late of St. Clair county, deceased, on a judgment for $10,006 61, damages, and $32 12, costs of suit. In the month of March last, nine hundred and thirty acres of very valuable land, in St. Clair county, was sold on this execution, and stricken off to the State, for $9,012; and he executor of the estate deposited with the Secretary of the Fund Commissionor the sum of $3,975 66, in State indebtedness, principal and interest, and Auditor s warrants to the amount of $100. It is believed that the whole debt will be paid by the time expires for the redemption of the land. The report of the Bank Commissioner of the State Bank, narked B, ) herewith submitted, will show the state of that institution. The w of the last ses sion gave power to the Governor to act as Commissioner of the Bank of Illinois at Shawneetown; but as the terms of the act were not compulsory, and as it would have been highly. inconvenient for me to act in that capacity, at so great a distance, I declined altogether to act under the authority conferred. The information concerning this bank, which 1 have to lay before the Legislature, is to be found in the reports of the Assignees, which are herewith communicated, (marked B, C, D, E, F, G, H, and I.) On the 14th day of August, 1845, an arbitration was had between the State and the State Bank, under the provisions of the eleventh section of the liquidation law of 1843, before the Hon. Richard M. Young and the Hon. Stephen T. Logan, who had been chosen as arbitrators. An award was made in favor of the bank, for the sum of eighty-five thousand three hundred and eighty dollars and forty-five cents; of which, twenty-three thousand...