countersign and affix the seal of the State to all proclamations and commissions issued by the Governor; to issue licenses to incorporations, and certificates of organization to cities and villages and incorporated towns; to have charge of all buildings and grounds belonging to the State situated in the city of Springfield, unless otherwise provided by statute; to furnish, control and care for all furniture, fuel, stationery and supplies for the General Assembly; to supervise the printing and distribution of the laws, assembly journals, reports and public documents of the State; to call the House of Representatives to order at the beginning of each General Assembly and to preside over the same until the election of a Speaker. He is ex officio State Librarian and commissioner of State Contracts, commissioner of the State Library, member of the State Canvassing Board, trustee of the Natural History Museum, trustee of the Lincoln Homestead and trustee of Fort Massac, the keeper of the great seal of State, the custodian and sealer of weights and measures. AUDITOR OF PUBLIC ACCOUNTS. The Auditor is required to keep all the accounts of the State; to audit the accounts of all officers or other persons authorized to receive moneys from the State treasury; to personally sign all warrants drawn on the treasury; to institute suit in all cases, not otherwise provided for, wherein the State is plaintiff; must report to the Governor biennially a general account of the business of his office, with a detailed statement of all warrants drawn upon the treasury, as well as of all funds received into the treasury, and shall With the Governor and countersign all receipts issued by the Treasurer. Treasurer he determines the tax rate required to produce the amount of tax required by the General Assembly. He is ex officio commissioner of State Contracts, member of the State Board of Equalization, member of the State Canvassing Board, exercises a general supervision over State banks, building, loan and homestead associations, and is custodian of the records of all the United States land offices formerly located in the State of Illinois. STATE TREASURER. The State Treasurer is custodian of the revenues and public moneys of the State, but he can receive no money on any account without receiving from He must make monthly the Auditor an order authorizing its receipt. The Treasurer is settlements with the Auditor and a biennial report to the Governor ten days before each regular session of the General Assembly. ex officio commissioner of State Contracts, member of the State Canvassing Board, and trustee of the Lincoln Monument and the Lincoln Homestead. STATE SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION. It is the duty of State Superintendent of Public Instruction to exercise a general supervision over all the public schools of the State, and he may require of the officers of any private institution of learning, incorporated or unincorporated, such report of its condition as he may require to make up the He is the general and legal adviser of the educational statistics of the State. He must county superintendents and other school officers of the State, and hears and determines all cases appealed to him from county superintendents. report biennially to the Governor the general condition of all schools of the State, the amount raised by taxation for school purposes, amount expended and for what purposes expended, and the general condition of all school funds of the State. He may grant State certificates to teachers upon conditions prescribed by statute, may cause to be withheld from teachers or school officers any portion of the school fund for certain delinquencies, and may remit forfeitures upon recommendation of the county superintendent. He must visit such State charitable institutions as are educational in their character, and is er officio member of the State Board of Education. trustee of the University of Illinois, the Southern Normal University, the Eastern, Western and Northern State Normal Schools, the Natural History Museum, the Lincoln Homestead and Lincoln Monument, director of the Illinois Farmers' Institute, and commisioner of the State Library. -11 B B. ATTORNEY GENERAL. It is the duty of the Attorney General to represent the State in the Supreme Court of the State in all cases in which the State is interested, to act as counsel for all State officers in all cases in which such State officers appear in their official capacity, to consult with and advise the several State's attorneys, and to assist them in certain contingencies, to be the legal adviser of the Governor and other State officers in matters relating to their official duties, and, on request, to furnish them, as well as either branch of the General Assembly, with written opinions upon constitutional or legal questions, to keep such books as the statute prescribes, and to perform such other duties as may, from time to time, be required of him by statute. In counties of the third class, he may appoint the inheritance tax attorney. He is ex officio commissioner of State contracts and member of the State Canvassing Board. ROSTER OF STATE OFFICERS. GOVERNORS. There have been twenty-three gubernatorial elections since the organization of the State. One governor, Bissell, died while in office, and three, Reynolds, Oglesby and Cullom, have resigned to accept places in the Congress of the United States-Reynolds as Representative and Oglesby and Cullom as Senators. In consequence of these vacancies, four lieutenant governors have succeeded to the governorship. Oglesby was three times elected to the office, French twice and Cullom twice-so that, with twenty-three elections, but nineteen men have been elected to the office; but, as four lieutenant governors have succeeded to the office, there have been as many different governors as elections, viz.: twenty-three. Of the twenty-three governors of Illinois, but two have been natives of the State, though the others all came to the State early in life and were closely identified with its interests at the time of their election. Seven were born in Kentucky, four in New York, two in Pennsylvania, two in Maryland, two in Virginia, two in Illinois, and one each in New Hampshire, Ohio, Indiana and Prussia. 2 Re-elected under Constitution Died March 15, 1860.. Resigned Jan. 23, 1873; elected Resigned Feb. 6, 1883; elected |