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The University Located 261 tial payment of which we are this year paying two per cent upon the assessed value of our taxable property. , "Second: Our county Board of Supervisors at their adjourned meeting in December, 1864, appropriated five thousand dollars to meet incidental expenses in securing the location of the Agricultural College in our county. Our lobbies (to whom this money was paid, and who went to Springfield at the last sitting of your honorable bodies in the winter of 1865) refused upon their return to us to account as to how this money had been expended, and we have good reason to believe that it was expended illegitimately; and we further believe that a good portion of the five thousand dollars appropriated in December, 1866, has already been used to bribe the public press, and that almost the entire sum is to be squandered corruptly, as the five thousand before. "Third: We consider the election held on the 10th of October, 1866, as illegal, and (that it) did not fairly represent the views and wishes of our county, particularly the farming community. "Signed by Isaac Devore and 49 others. "If the accompanying is not granted, we humbly pray you to exempt our township from this oppressive tax, as we are unanimously opposed to said tax, as the following list embracing the entire vote of our township, will fully show. Here follow the names of tax payers and legal voters of East Bend Township, Champaign County, Illinois. "There are some more similar petitions of the same general tenor, from seven different towns of Champaign county, namely: Urbana, Homer, East Bend, Pera, Tolono, and Rantoul Townships, covering all the same points and signed, one by 280 voters, another by 94, and others by different numbers. The originals of these petitions and papers are now all in the hands of General McConnell, in the senate chamber, who will at any time substantiate these statements. "The committee of citizens of Champaign started to bring these petitions to the legislature some time ago, but they were met by their representative, Mr. Griggs, who falsely told them
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