Sec[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the people of the state of the state of Illinois Represented in the General Assembly That Thomas Brinegar of Coles County[,] Philip B. Smith of Edgar County[,] and John Boyed Sen^r. of Crawford County be and they are hereby Appointed Commissioners to relocate the seat of Justice of Clark County

Sec. Said Commissioners or a majority of them shall meet at the Town of Livingston in said County on the second Monday in March next or within sixty days thereafter, and after being duly sworn before some Justice of the Peace of said County to faithfully and impartially discharge the duties assigned them by this act, shall proceed to discharge the same as is hereinafter directed

Sec 3. It shall be the duty of said Commissioners or a Majority of them, to relocate the seat of Justice of said County, at such suitable point on the National Road in said County, as to them shall seem most conducive to the present and future interest and prosperity of said County: taking into view its nearness to the Geographical centre of the County, the timber, soil, and health, of the adjacent Country, as well as the donations that may be proposed

Sec. 4. Said Commissioners shall ask and receive, from the person or persons on whose land they may locate the seat of Justice of said County, a donation of not less than forty acres of land, lying on both sides of the National Road, or if they deem it more conducive to the interest of, the County, they may receive not less than two acres in such

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shape as may be agreed upon by the owner or owners, and the said Commissioners Provided the person or persons making such donation in land, will secure to be paid to the County of Clark, an additional donation of four thousand dollars, one half thereof to be paid on the first day of January, one thousand Eight hundred and thirty Eight, and the other half on the first day of September Eighteen hundred and thirty Eight

Sec 5. Said Commissioners shall demand a Bond for a deed with covenants, of General warranty to the county of Clark, for the lands on which they shall make such location which bond together with the securities for the money, and a full report of their proceedings, they shall return to the Clerk of the County Commissioners Court of said County, to be by said Clerk laid before his court, at its next regular or special term thereafter

Sec. 6. Should the Seat of Justice when located under this act, be removed therefrom previous to the year One thousand Eight hundred and forty eight, the donor or donors of the land on which such location shall be made, shall have and receive from the County of Clark the sum of three hundred dollars as remuneration to them

Sec 7. It shall be the duty of the County Commissioners of said county, as soon as they shall have received the report aforesaid

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to cause said donation to be laid off into lots, and to dispose of the same, at such times and places, and upon such terms as they shall deem best Provided the proceeds thereof, and the Money that may be donated under this act, together with the Court house and Gaol[Jail] in Darwin, shall go to constitute a fund for the erection of a Court House and Gaol at the new County Seat and to be applied to no other purpose whatever

Sec 8. Said Commissioners, as far as practicable shall examine the National Road in said County and be governed in all things, by the true interest of the same, and they shall also receive sealed proposals of land or Money or both, And the County Commissioners of Clark County, shall as soon as they receive the report of the Commissioners aforesaid give a name to the place that has been selected as the County seat And cause a plat thereof with the name of said New County seat to be recorded

Sec 9. Said Commissioners shall receive for their services each three dollars pr[per] day for each day necessarily employed in the duties enjoined on them by this act, out of the County Treasury of said County, so soon as they shall select the place for said County seat, and deliver the bonds required, to be received by them to the Clerk of the Commissioners Court of Clark County

Sec. 10. All Courts that now are required by law to be held at Darwin, shall from and after the first day of August Eighteen hundred and thirty [...?] seven, be held at the place selected under this act.

Sec 11. All acts and parts of acts coming within the purview of this act are hereby repealed This act to be in force from and after its passage