Papers in 19 folders used in preparing annual reports, with reports and many statements of receipts and expenditures, ways and means, Land Dept. interest fund, accounts, balance sheets, ledger pages, etc. Also includes statistics of towns along Illinois Central Route, 1850-1856 (population, number of churches and stores, etc.), table exhibiting diversities of surface and levels on line, with detailed topographical descriptions, Mar. 1, 1854 [oversized]; copy of act of Illinois legislature on the sale of IC lands, Feb. 28, 1854; London and New York transfer agency expenses; and a letter from Ebenezer Lane on London Committee recommendations, Feb. 1, 1859 [printed].