Sec.[Section] 1^st Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois represented in the General assembly, That so much of the 2^nd Section of the act as requires the Sheriff of Gallatin County to give notice and hold elections for trustees of said Town be and the same is hereby repealed and hereafter it shall be the duty of the clerk of the board of trustees to give notice and hold said elections,

Sec 2.^nd in case there be no clerk or in case of the absence of said clerk then it shall be the duty of any Justice of the peace residing in said town to give not less than twenty days notice in three of the most public places in said town of such elections and proceede and hold the same on the first monday in January instead of May, and notify the persons elected, and make returns of said election to the bo^a^rd of trustees within ten days thereafter provided, that if in any case an election should not be held on said first monday in January in each and every year, the same may be held on like notice being given on the 1^st monday in every other month for trustees for that year and until such election shall be held the last elected trustees shall continue in office untill their successors ^are^ quallified

Sec. 3.^rd Said trustees shall have power to license drays and exact such other tax as to them may seem right not to exceede one fourth per cent upon real property in said town and may tax coffee houses & retailors of Spiritous Liquors this act to take effect and be in force from and after the 20^th of march next.