Section 1^st Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois represented in the general assembly, That all that district of country included within the Corporation Limits of the Town of Athens in the County of Sangamon be and the Same is hereby constituted into a district for the election of justice of the peace and Constable.

Sec. 2^nd
The County commissioners court of the County of Sangamon are hereby autherised and required to cause an election to be held, on or before, the first day of april next or as Soon thereafter as practible[practical] and at each quadriennial election thereafter for one justice of the peace and one Constable in Said district, the officers elected shall hold their offices untill the next general election for justices of the peace. Which time their successors, shall be elected as in other cases. And the persons so elected shall have and exercise the same jurisdiction, hold their offices by the same tenure, and be under the same regulation in all respects as other justices of the peace, and constables of this State.