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act entitled "An act for the construction of the Illinois and Michigan canal," 

 approved the 9th January, 1836. 



In witness whereof the governor, auditor, and treasurer of the State of Illinois 

 have signed this certificate, and have caused the seal of the said State to 

 I- 1 " s '^ be hereunto affixed, this 1st day of July, 1839. 



THO. CABLIN, Governor. 

 LKVI DAVIS, Auditor. 

 JOHN I). WHITESIDE, 7'mw/vv. 



10 bonds of this description, numbered 1237 to 1246, inclusive. 



UNITED STATF8 OF AMERICA, STATE OF ILLINOIS. 



$1,000.] Interest six per cent. [$1,000. 



CERTIFICATE OF ILLINOIS. 

 No. 2636.] Internal improvement stock. [No. 2636. 



Know all men by these presents, that there is due from the State of Illinois to 

 -, or bearer, one thousand dollars, with interest at the rate of six per 



cent per annum, payable half yearly, on the first Mondays of January and July, at 

 the banking house of the agency of the Bank of the United States in New York, on 

 presentation and surrender of the annexed warrants. The principal is reimbursable 

 at the said banking house, at the pleasure of the State, after the 1st day of January, 

 1870. 



For the performance of all which the faith of the State of Illinois is irrevocably 

 pledged, agreeably to ' ' An act to establish and maintain a general system of internal 

 improvement, ' ' approved February 27, 1837, and an amendment, approved March 2, 

 1839. 



Witness our hands, at Vandalia, this 1st day of July, 1839. 



CHAS. OAKLEY, 

 JOHN TILLSON, Jr., 



Commissioners. 



10 bonds of this aescnption, numbered 2629, 2632, 2634, 2636, 2639, 2648, 2658, 2660, 

 2661, 2664. 



STATE OK OHIO CANAL STOCK. 



Transfer office, office of the Ohio Life Insurance and Trust Company, in the city of 

 New York, August 7, 1841. 



Be it known, that the State of Ohio owes to the Secretary of the Treasury of the 

 United States, in trust for the Smithsonian fund or his assigns, the sum of five thou- 

 sand dollars bearing interest at the rate of six per centum per annum, from the first 

 day of July, 1841, inclusively, payable at this office, half yearly, on the first days of the 

 months of January and July, being stock created in pursuance of sundry acts of 

 the legislature of the State of Ohio passed March 24th, 1837, the principal of which 

 stock is reimbursable at the pleasure of the State, at any time after the thirty-first 

 day of December, in the year 1860; which debt is recorded in this office, and is trans- 

 ferable only by appearance in person or by attorney, according to the rules and forms 

 instituted for that purpose. 



