Sec[Section] 1 Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois Represented in the General Assembly, That so much of an act creating Perry County approved January the 29^th 1827 as established the north east corner of said County, at the north east corner of Township number four south of range Number one west and so much as established the south east corner of said County at the west corner of Township six south of range ^one^ four west is hereby repealed

Sec. 2.

That the north east corner of Perry County shall be established in the middle of little Muddy River where the line crosses said river dividing Townships three and four, thence due west on the line between Township’s three and four, to the north west corner of Township four south of range four west, thence due south on the line between ranges four and five eighteen miles to the south west corner of Township six south of range four west, thence due east on the line between Township’s six and seven to the middle of Muddy River, thence north with its meanders to the place of beginning.

Sec 3. That all that tract of country lying west of little Muddy River as before described shall compose the county of Perry, and all that tract of country lying east of said river heretofore belonging to the county of Perry shall compose a part of the county of Franklin, any former law to the contrary notwithstanding, this act to take effect, the first day of March next.