Treasurer's Account Book — Corporation/Village of East Dundee

A different kind of record than the board-minutes volumes: this is the village Treasurer's own cash book, a feather-marbled ledger with a red cloth spine, tracking every dollar that came into and went out of East Dundee's treasury for four fiscal years. There's no meeting narrative here — no debates, no ordinances read aloud — just names, dates, and amounts, page after page of them.

The book runs in two distinct formats. Its first seventeen pages are a straightforward chronological cash log — money received, orders drawn — covering May 1889 through March 1891. From page 18 on, it restructures into per-department appropriation ledgers (Streets, Fire, Police, Village Hall, and so on), each tracked against its own annual budget across two full fiscal cycles, closing with a clerk's own department-by-department total on the volume's last written page.

Recurring names carry the same weight here that they do in the board minutes — Henry Gerdan's $58 monthly police salary appears without a single missed month across all four years — but the ledger also surfaces things the minutes don't: two same-week land purchases in May 1890, a $535 payment to the Champion Iron Co. that likely paid for structural ironwork on the Town Hall/jail/engine-house project documented in Vol. 1, and two separate Dundee Hawkeye subscription payments that financially confirm the paper's role as the village's official newspaper of record.

This is a financial account book, not a meeting-minutes volume — there's no board narrative to browse chronologically. Instead, this page summarizes what the Treasurer's own totals show: money received and drawn by fiscal period, spending by village department, and a handful of individually notable transactions.

Period Summary

Period	Received	Drawn	Balance	Pages
Cash Book (chronological), May 1889 – Mar 1891 — Ledger's own closing summary, p.16-17. Received total is Cash in Treasury figure, not a separate 'total received' line — treat as approximate.	$4,534.96	$3,368.29	$1,166.67	pp.1–17
Appropriation Cycle 1, Apr 1891 – Mar 1892 — No single ledger-stated grand total for this cycle (unlike Cycle 2's p.46 table) — see Department Detail sheet; Total Drawn is a computed SUM of that cycle's department rows.	—	$5,289.46	—	pp.18–31
Appropriation Cycle 2, Apr 1892 – Mar/Apr 1893 — Total Drawn is the ledger's own stated grand total, p.46 — ten departments summed by the clerk himself.	—	$5,248.38	—	pp.32–46

Cycle 1, 1891–92 — by Department

Item	Department	Appropriation	Drawn	Variance	Pages
1	Streets and Public Works — Two subtotals recorded in source ($264.35 and $250.20) — used the later/final figure.	$200.00	$264.35	-$64.35	p.18
2	(Streets, cont.) — Appropriated, no drawn entries recorded.	$50.00	—	—	p.18
3	(Streets, cont.) — Multiple running subtotals in source ($67.44/$154.53/$221.77) — used final.	$30.00	$221.77	-$191.77	p.18-19
4	(Streets, cont.)	$150.00	$67.44	$82.56	p.19
5	(Streets, cont.) — Minimal/no entries.	$19.00	—	—	p.19
6	Bridge — No entries recorded.	$25.00	—	—	p.20
7	Sidewalk	$770.00	$206.40	$563.60	p.20-21
8	Health — No entries recorded.	$25.00	—	—	p.21
9	Fire	$12.00	$15.00	-$3.00	p.22
10	Fire (cont.)	$12.00	$74.50	-$62.50	p.22
11	Fire (cont.)	$66.00	$71.00	-$5.00	p.22
12	Fire (cont.)	$20.00	$21.70	-$1.70	p.22
13	Fire (cont.)	$15.00	$20.80	-$5.80	p.22
14	Police — 12 monthly $58 payments to H. Gerdan.	$696.00	$696.00	$0.00	p.26-27
15a	General — Item number 15 reused in source for two separate sub-accounts.	$25.00	$10.00	$15.00	p.23
16	General (cont.)	$150.00	$72.00	$78.00	p.23
17	General (cont.)	$25.00	$25.00	$0.00	p.23
18	General (cont.) — Figure as recorded; a $40 E.C. Luther payment also appears against this item in source and may not be fully reconciled into the $6.25 total — flagged in transcription.	$75.00	$6.25	$68.75	p.23
19	City Hall and Public Building	$1,706.00	$1,706.00	$0.00	p.24
20	City Hall (cont.) — Includes $535 Champion Iron Co. and $227.57 Ed. Bell payments — large capital items.	$494.00	$1,252.93	-$758.93	p.24-25
21	City Hall (cont.)	$25.00	$12.00	$13.00	p.25
22	City Hall (cont.)	$15.00	$7.00	$8.00	p.25
23	City Hall (cont.) — No entries recorded.	$35.00	—	—	p.25
24	City Hall (cont.)	$10.00	$12.80	-$2.80	p.25
25	Elections	$9.00	$9.00	$0.00	p.26-27
26	(Elections, cont.) — The Chicago Legal News subscription.	$6.00	$1.40	$4.60	p.27
27	Street Lighting	$225.00	$133.48	$91.52	p.26
28	(Street Lighting, cont.) — 12 monthly $12 lamp-tending payments to Ch. Fritz.	$144.00	$144.00	$0.00	p.26
29	(Street Lighting, cont.)	$6.00	$18.14	-$12.14	p.27
30	Court and Legal Expenses	$161.25	$161.25	$0.00	p.28
31	(Legal, cont.)	$38.75	$59.25	-$20.50	p.28

Cycle 2, 1892–93 — by Department

Item	Department	Appropriation	Drawn	Variance	Pages
—	Street Department — Ledger's own closing table, p.46.	—	$596.02	—	p.46
—	Bridge Department — Ledger's own closing table, p.46.	—	$192.98	—	p.42-43
—	Side Walk Department — Ledger's own closing table, p.46.	—	$1,454.10	—	p.44-45
—	Fire Department — Ledger's own closing table, p.46.	—	$605.60	—	p.34-35, 44-45
—	General Department — Ledger's own closing table, p.46.	—	$956.75	—	p.36-37
—	Police Department — Ledger's own closing table, p.46.	—	$702.50	—	p.38-39
—	Village Hall Department — Ledger's own closing table, p.46.	—	$212.06	—	p.38-39
—	Elections — Ledger's own closing table, p.46.	—	$25.25	—	p.40-41
—	Street Lighting — Ledger's own closing table, p.46.	—	$448.22	—	p.40-41
—	Legal Department — Ledger's own closing table, p.46.	—	$54.90	—	p.41

Notable Transactions

1890-05-06 — Louis Rabe — $100.00

"Land" — one-time payment, not a recurring service or supply order.

One of two land purchases recorded in the same week (see Chr. Tolshow below) — candidate for cross-referencing against Vol. 1's infrastructure narrative.

Treasurer's Account Book — Corporation/Village of East Dundee, p.11

1890-05-06 — Chr. Tolshow — $115.00

"Land" — one-time payment, not a recurring service or supply order.

Paired with the Louis Rabe payment above; both logged the same week.

Treasurer's Account Book — Corporation/Village of East Dundee, p.11

1890-05-10 — Frederick Warcher — $1,200.00

"Land bought" — by far the largest single payment in the volume's first 17 pages.

An order of magnitude larger than the other land payments; worth confirming what parcel this was.

Treasurer's Account Book — Corporation/Village of East Dundee, p.12

1891 (Item 20, City Hall and Public Building) — Champion Iron Co. — $535.00

Large capital expenditure against the City Hall and Public Building appropriation.

Likely structural ironwork for the Town Hall/jail/engine-house construction project already documented in Vol. 1's board minutes — a direct financial corroboration of that narrative.

Treasurer's Account Book — Corporation/Village of East Dundee, p.24-25

1891 (Item 20, City Hall and Public Building) — Ed. Bell — $227.57

Payment against the City Hall and Public Building appropriation.

Ed. Bell also appears earlier (p.7, p.9) for concrete work — a repeat contractor across different departments.

Treasurer's Account Book — Corporation/Village of East Dundee, p.24-25

1892 (Item 22, Village Hall Department) — The Chicago Legal Co. / Dundee Hawkeye — $5.86

$1.36 to The Chicago Legal Co., $4.50 to the Dundee Hawkeye — combined subscription/legal-notice line.

Direct financial confirmation of Vol. 1's board-minute record naming the Dundee Hawkeye as the village's official newspaper for legal notices.

Treasurer's Account Book — Corporation/Village of East Dundee, p.38-39

1892 (Item 27, Elections) — Dundee Hawkeye — $4.75

Second, separate Dundee Hawkeye payment, against the Elections appropriation.

A second Hawkeye payment against a different department in the same year — the paper's legal-notice role wasn't limited to one department.

Treasurer's Account Book — Corporation/Village of East Dundee, p.40-41

1889-08 through 1890-01 — Henry Gerdan (police) — $58.00

Recurring monthly police salary, $58.00/month, paid without interruption across the entire volume (1889-1893).

The steadiest line item in the book — same amount, same name, every month for four years. "Gerdan" here is very likely the same person as "Guldan" in Vol. 1 and the 1888 General Ledger — a known spelling divergence already flagged on the `people/henry-guldan` wiki page.

Treasurer's Account Book — Corporation/Village of East Dundee, throughout

Legibility caveats: Several figures partly obscured by ink bleed or photo angle — see [?]/bracketed notes in the transcription file. Item 15 and Item 18 in Cycle 1 have internal reconciliation ambiguity flagged in the source. Cycle 1 has no single ledger-stated grand total to check against (unlike Cycle 2's clean p.46 table).