CHAPTER XXVIII,

STATE GOVERNMENT-1871.

Governor-John M. Palmer.
Lieutenant-Governor-John Dougherty.
Secretary of State-Edward Rummel.

Auditor of Public Accounts-Chas. E. Lippincott.
Treasurer-Erastus N. Bates.

Superintendent of Public Instruction-Newton Bateman.
Attorney-General-Washington Bushnell.

TWENTY-SEVENTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY-FIRST SESSION.

The first session of the Twenty-seventh General Assembly convened January 4, and adjourned, April 17, until November 15. The assembly was composed of the following members:

SENATE.

Simeon K. Gibson,1 Equality. Charles Voris, Windsor.
T. A. E. Holcomb, S. Pass. Edwin Harlan, Marshall.
Wm. G. Bowman.2

1

Robert N. Bishop, Paris.
John L. Tincher, Danville.
J. W. Langley, Champaign.
J. McNulta, Bloomington.
M. Donahue, Clinton.
A. B. Nicholson, Lincoln.

J. Jackson, Lawrenceville.
John Landrigan, Albion.
S. K. Casey, Mt. Vernon.
J. M. Washburn, Fredonia.
W. B. Anderson,3 Mt. Vernon
J. P. Van Dorstan, Vandalia. Alex. Starne, Springfield.
J. F. Alexander, Greenville. J. M. Epler, Jacksonville.
Willard C. Flagg, Moro.
W. H. Underwood, Belleville.
Wm. Shepard, Jerseyville.
J. M. Bush, Pittsfield.
Wm. H. Allen.5

Edward Laning, Petersburg.
J. H. Richardson, Quincy.
Jesse C. Williams, Carthage.
Benj. R. Hampton, Macomb.
Harvey S. Senter, Aledo,

L. Solomon, Vancil's Point. T. A. Boyd, Lewiston.

'Died.

Vice Simeon K. Gibson, deceased. 3 Vice Samuel K. Casey, deceased.

'Resigned.

Vice Wm. Shepard, resigned.