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Sec[Section] 1 Be it [enacted] by the people of the State of Illinois repres[ente]d in the General Assembly, That all that tract of country within the following boun- -daries, to wit: beginning at a point in the center of the main channel of the Illinois river where a line runni ng through the center of Township seventeen north in- -tersects the sames in range X west of the third principal |
meridian; thence East with said line to the East side of the County of Morgan, from thence North to the centre of the main channel of the Sangamon River, thence down said River to the Centre of the main chanel of the Illinois River; thence down said river to the place of beginning, Shall constitute a new County, to be called the County
of Cass.
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Sec 2 The County aforesaid is created upon the following condi -tions. The people of the County of Morgan, as the same is now organized, Shall meet at the several places of hold -ing elections for representatives and Senators in said County on the (first) Monday of April next, and proceed to vote in the same manner of voting for representatives and Senators to the general Assembly, whether said County shall be created or not. The Judges of Elections in said County Shall give twenty days notice of the time and place of hol- -ding said election, and on said day shall open a poll book |
at each election precint, in which they shall rule two colums; in one of which they shall set down the votes given for the creation of said County, and in the other column, the votes given against the same. And said Judges Shall
conduct said election and make returs to the Clerk of the County Commissioners Court of the County of Morgan, in the same manner as is now provided by law in the case of Elections for Senators
and Representatives to the general Assembly; and said returns shall be opened and counted in the same manner as in such elections.
And if a majority
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of all the votes given at said election, shall be in favor of the creation of said
County; a certificate thereof shall be made by the clerk of said County Commissioners Court under the seal of said Court, and transmitted by him to the office of the Secretary of State, of the State of
Illinois, to be filed in his office as evidence of the existance of said County. And said Clerk shall make a like certificate, and file the same in his office, which
shall be entered of record at the next succeding term of the said County Commissioners Court, and shall be sufficient to prove the facts therein stated, after which said County shall be one of the Counties of the State of Illinois.
Sec 3 If said County shall be created as aforesaid as aforesaid the legal voters of said County shall meet on the first Monday of May next at the several places of holding elections
in said new County, and vote for the place where the County seat of said County shall be located, and the place receiving the greatest number of votes shall be the
permanent seat of Justice of said County. And on the first monday of August next, said County shall proceed to elect all County officers for said County to be commissioned and qualified as in other cases.
Sec 4 The owner or owners of the land where said County seat shall be located, shall donate and convey, to said Cunty of Cass, at least fifteen acres of land at the place where said seat shall be so located,
which may be disposed of in the manner the County Commissioners Court of said County shall deem proper, the proceeds whereof shall be applied to the erection of the Court
house and Jail and Clerks offices of said County: but if the [County seat] aforesaid shall be located at Beards -
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town in said county, the Corporation of said Town, shall, (within one year from the said location,) pay into the County Treasury of
said County, not less than ten thousand dollars, to be applied in the erection of said public
buildings.
Sec 5 Said County shall vote with the County of Morgan for Senators and Representatives until the next apportionment. And Said County shall make a part of the first Judicial Circuit, and so soon as said County Shall be organized, the Clerk of the County Commissioners Court of said County shall notify the Judge of the said Circuit; and it shall be his duty to appoint a
clerk and hold a Court in said County at such times as said Judge shall appoint. The seat of Justice of said County shall be located at Beardstown until the public buildings shall be erected: But if the County seat shall be located at Beardstown, and said corporation of Beardstown, shall not pay to the Treasurer of said County said ten thousand dollars, for the purpose of erecting said public buildings; within
one year after the location of said County seat, then the County Commissioners Court of said County shall locate the County Seat at some other point near the Centre of said County when the quantity of land mentioned in the fourth Section of this act will be donated
as therein provided.
Sec 6 The school money hereafter raised out of the sales of the School land, within said
County, shall be paid over to the School Commissioner of said County of Cass, by the scool Commissioner of the county of Morgan. So soon as the said County shall be organized; and the Commissioner of school lands, shall be appointed and
qualified according to law, together with all interest arising out of said money that
has not been heretofore expended for schools within that part of Morgan County now proposed to be set off into the County of Cass. This act shall take effect according to the conditions thereof,
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from and after its passage.
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02/24/1837
02/24/1837
Passed H. R.[House of Representatives] Feb. 24th 1837.
D. Prickett clk.[Clerk] H. R.[House of Representatives][ docketing
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No 316
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Engrossed
Handwritten Document, 4 page(s), Folder 232, HB 249, GA Session 10-1, Illinois State Archives (Springfield, IL) ,