Sec[Section] 1^st Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois represented in the General Assembly: That when application is make by any pauper or paupers to the County Commissioners’ Court of any County in this State, for relief, it shall be necessary for said County Commissioners’ Court, to require of said pauper or paupers, satisfactory evidence that he, she[,] or they have been residents of said County, for twelve months immediately preceding the day upon which such application is made.

Sec 2^nd That when on application made, by any pauper or paupers, to the County Commissioners’ Court, as aforesaid, it shall appear to the satisfaction of said Court, that the person or persons so applying for relief, have resided in said County agreeably to the provisions of the first section of this act, he[,] she[,] or they shall be entitled to all the relief provided by the act to which this is an amendment, but, if on the contrary it shall appear to

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the satisfaction of said County Commissioners Court that said pauper or paupers shall not have been residents of said County agreeably to the provisions of the first section of this act, they shall proceed to remove from their County at the expense of said County, said pauper or paupers, to the County or State, where said pauper or paupers may have had his, her[,] or their last place of residence, or may if they think best, issue a notice directed to some Constable of the County, which notice said Constable shall serve forth with on said pauper or paupers requiring him[,] her[,] or them to depart said County forthwith, and after so serving said notice, by reading the same to said pauper or paupers, said Constable shall within five days thereafter return the same to ^the clerk of^ the County Commissioners Court issuing the same, noting the time and manner of serving the same thereon

Sec 3^d After service of such notice as aforesaid no pauper or paupers shall be entitled to relief from such County, any Law or custom to the contrary notwithstanding

Sec 4^th The County Commissioners Court of any County in this state, may if they see proper, cause to be built or procured in their respective Counties, convenient work Houses, for the accomodation and employment of such paupers as may from time to time become a County charge; said work Houses and paupers to be under such rules and regulations as said County Commissioners Court may deem proper and just, and that if any person shall bring and leave any pauper or paupers in any County in this state, wherein such pauper is not lawfully settled, knowing him or them to be paupers, he shall forfeit and pay the sum of one hundred dollars for every such offence, to be sued for and recovered by, and to the use of such County, by action of debt in any Court [...?] by the same. before any Justice of the Peace in the proper County