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399 





of schools la Ue 8ut, 





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i.il number i'f .'vhool districts in tho 



iiave bean maintained for 



SIX In :::oro ill '.',170. 



fo!lo\\inir is a statement of tlie revenue 

 .1 disbursed for the school-year end- 

 ,l.er 30, 1866: 



RECEIVED. 



t on school fund ......................... IM..V.5 



!l tax ................................... 750,000 



-ton countr fund ......................... ITJ'.VJ 



Interval on township fund ....................... 861,897 



.mils nol.l ................................ 66,808 



t laxi-s .......... . ................. 2,789,885 



Mtsttllaueous sources. .......................... 405,972 



Total ......... ............................ $4,445,130 



EXPENDED. 



Teachers' wages ................................ |2,M1,086 



rAchool-hoMes, sites and ground .................. 65 887 



New school-house ............................... 880,839 



Amount paid for tho purchase of school-houses. . . 18,779 



: school-houses ........................... 18.752 



Repairs of school-houses. ........................ 216,866 



furniture ................................ 62,982 



tfebool apparatus. ............................... 10,960 



Ubrmr ............................. 4,10 



Kuel and Incidentals ............................ 812,828 



To township officers and others .................. 



Miscellaneous.. ............................... 206,119 



Total ............................. ....... $4,309,233 



Apartment of the State Normal 



I i> 1'ull, and large numbers qualified for 



.inir annually graduate. 



Tho charitable institutions of the State, located 



at .Jacksonville, have been liberally supported, 



utimied in successful operation. The iiuin- 



;' tin- incurable insane is so large and in- 



-.:ig, that it has become a matter of public 



TII. A school for idiots was authorized 



in February, 180-3, which has been commenced 



"iidm-ted thus far in a manner to produce 



1110-4 beneficial and important results. Twenty- 



p ipil- are under instruction, and applica- 



tion^ for a large number of others have been 



received. An Eye and Ear Infirmary has been 



in operation at Chicago for nine years. Five 



hundred and fifteen patients received treatment 



during the year. Being an incorporated in*ti- 



tution, it is proposed that the State shall make 



provision in it for the indigent curable blind. A 



Soldiers' Home, at Chicago, supported by volun- 



-.ihseriptions, contains about one hundred 



persons. No progress has yet been made in 



inanimation of an agricultural college. The 



-hare of the state in the appropriation by Con- 



- for that purpose amounts to 480,000 



. A geological survey of the State lias 



1 in thirty counties. It is esti- 



mated that, with an annual appropriation of 



$10,000, the work can be completed in two 



years. The number of convicts in the State 



ntiary in 1864, wus 680. Thin number 

 had increased on January 1, 1866, to 1,073. An 

 act, authori/ing tin: construction of a peniten- 

 tiary, capable of holding one tlnm-and con- 



VU passed by the Legislature in 1857. 

 Within ten years, and before the building is 

 completed, the limits of its capacity have been 

 readied. 



The Governor, in his message to the Legisla- 

 ture, called their attention to the constitutional 

 amendment proposed by Congress, and said : 

 If the pending constitutional amcndent shall fail, 

 or if adopted snail still fail to secure these ends, 

 other more adequate and comprehensive measures 

 will be inaugurated, which shall not fail to restore 

 and reestablish the Government upon the basis of 

 the indivisibility of the Union, the supreme author- 

 ity of its laws, and the equal liberty of all its citizens 

 of every State in the Union. In submitting this pro- 

 posed amendment to the Legislature of Illinois, it 

 affords me pleasure to recommend its ratification by 

 your honorable body. 



On August 8th, a Republican State Conven- 

 tion assembled at Springfield to nominate can- 

 didates for members of Congress at large, State 

 treasurer, and superintendent of public instruc- 

 tion. The following resolutions, expressive of 

 the views of tho convention on the questions 

 before the country, were adopted : 



Retolvtd, That in the great Union party of the 

 nation, whose counsels safely guided the country 

 through the rebellion, and whose arms conquered 

 and subdued it, we recognize the party whose prin- 

 ciples alone can be relied upon and adhered to with 

 safety in the reconstruction of the State governments 

 of the rebellious States. 



jtetolved, That we cordially endorse the policy of 

 the Congress of the United States with reference to 

 the restoration of the State governments destroyed 

 liv the rebellion ; that we fully approve of the amend- 

 ment to the Constitution of the L uited States adopted 

 by Congress, and submitted for ratification to the 

 people. 



Resolved, That under the Constitution, which pro- 

 vides for a qualified veto upon the legislation of Con- 

 gress by the President, when that body has enacted 

 hiu s by the constitutional majority of two-lhirds over 

 tho Presidential negative, the President himself, as 

 well as the people, should bow to their decision, as 

 that of the highest power in the nation ; and that any 

 attempt on his part to oppose the faithful execution 

 of such laws and to substantiate in lieu thereof his 

 own will, is an unwarrantable usurpation and danger- 

 ous to the liberties of the people. 



Resolved, That Congress, without the cooperation 

 of the President, has the sole power of proposing 

 amendments to the national Constitution ; that, as 

 the people's representatives, it is the only standard 

 of the national will, and that in the present disturbed 

 condition of the Southern States in their relations to 

 the (u'lHTal (io.'ernment, we recognize Congress as 

 the supreme power, and will sustain its action in all 

 just and patnotic modes in behalf of the Constitu- 

 tional Amendment now submitted to the States. 



That it should be a recognized maxim in 

 political science, to give the friends and defenders of 

 u government its direction and control ; that to its 

 riii-iiiies and assailants should be accorded only such 

 privileges as can be intrusted them without danger 

 to the Republic. 



Resolved, That we regard the Congressional t-^t 

 oath as one of the great bulwarks of union and lib- 

 erty, and that we are unalterably opposed to any 

 change or abridgment thereof. 



U-fJ, That our sympathies as a party go out in 



