In force Dec.[December] 24, 1834.
AN ACT forming an additional Justice’s District in the County of Sangamon, including the Town of Athens.
1District formed.
Sec.[Section] 1. 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 a justice
of the peace and constable.
Election when to be held.
Sec. 2. The county commissioners’ court of the county of Sangamon , are hereby authorized and required to cause an election to be held on or before
the first day of April next, or as soon thereafter as practicable, and at each quad-
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rennial election thereafter for one justice of the peace and one constable in said
district. The officers elected shall hold their offices until the next general election
for justices of the peace, at 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 regulations, in all respects,
as other justices of the peace and constables of this State.2Approved, Dec. 24, 1834.
1On December 6, 1834, John T. Stuart in the House of Representatives presented the petition of citizens of Athens, requesting the passage of a bill authorizing them to elect a justice of the peace
and constable. The House referred the petition to the Committee on Petitions. In
respone to this petition, Stuart of the Committee on Petitions introduced HB 7 in the House on December 8. On December 9, the House referred the bill to a
select committee. The select committee reported back the bill with an amendment,
in which the House concurred. The House passed the bill as amended on December
10. The Senate concurred on December 18. On December 24, the Council of Revision approved the bill and the act became law.
Illinois House Journal. 1835. 9th G. A., 1st sess., 67, 71, 89, 90, 103-04, 138, 143, 148, 161; Illinois
Senate Journal. 1835. 9th G. A., 1st sess., 87, 101, 113, 122, 124, 135.
2In 1835, there was an election for several offices in Sangamon County. Hiram Duncan won election as Constable.
Sangamo Journal, 18 July 1835, 3:5; 11 June 1836, 2:7.
Printed Document, 2 page(s), Laws of the State of Illinois, Passed by the Ninth General Assembly, at their First Session (Vandalia, IL:
J. Y. Sawyer, 1835), 139-40, GA Session: 9-1