Excerpt from Biennial Report of the Secretary of State to His Excellency, John L. Beveridge, Governor of Illinois: December 15, 1874 When I assumed the duties of this office the whole system of the salary and emoluments oi' the Secretary of State, which had been in operation under the old constitution, were radically changed. Instead of being paid a salary, and in addition thereto receiving all the fees of the office as his personal emoluments, this, like all the other state omet s under the new constitution, was made exclusively a salaried oflice, and by law the Secretary of State now pays all fees received by him into the State treasury. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.