Sec[Section] 1 Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois represented in the General Assembly; That at the first term of the County Commissioners Courts in each and every County of this State, to be held after the first Monday in August 1838 it shall be the duty of each and every [one] of the clerks of said Courts, to prepare three tickets, upon one of which shall be written the words “One year,” upon another the words “two years,” and upon the other the word “three years,” which tickets so prepared shall be presented, by said Clerks to the County Commissioners of their Counties respectively, and each of said Commissioners shall draw one of said tickets.

Sec 2. The term of service of the commissioner who draws the ticket upon which is written the words “One year,” shall expire on the first monday in August in the year 1839, The term of service of the commissioner who draws the ticket upon which is written the words “two years,” shall expire on the first Monday in August in the year 1840, And the term of service of the Commissioner who draws the ticket upon which is written the words “three years,” shall expire on the first monday in August in the year 1841. And it shall be the duty of the Clerks of the County Commissioners Courts respectively to enter upon the records of said courts, which of said commissioners is to continue in office for one year, which for two years[,] and which for three years.

Sec 3. On the first Monday in August in the year 1839, and on the first Monday in August in each and every year thereafter, there shall be an election held in each and every county in this State for the election of one county commissioner, whose term of service shall be three years from and after the day of his election, and the county commissioner who has been longest in office shall always be the presiding officer of the Court.

Sec 4. In each and every County which may hereafter be organized in this state, there shall be elected at the first regular election held in said county three County Commissioners, who, at the first term of their Court held after their election, shall proceed to determine their terms of service in the same manner as is provided in the first section of this act; and on the first Monday in August in each and every year thereafter, there shall be elected in said Counties, One County Commissioner, who shall continue in office three years from and after the time of his election.

Sec 5. Whenever a vacancy shall happen in the office of County Commissioner by death, resignation[,] or otherwise it shall be the duty of the clerk of the County Commissioners Court of the County in which the vacancy shall so happen, to issue his order to the judges of election in the different districts in said County, requiring them on a

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certain day not less than twenty ^days^ from the date of such order, to hold an election to fill such vacancy, Provided, that if the term of service of the Commissioner whose vacancy is to be filled, would have expired within six months of the happening of said vacancy, it shall not be necessary for the Clerk to order an election to fill such vacancy.

Sec 6. All elections provided for in this act shall be conducted, and returns thereof made in the manner provided in an act entitled “An act regulating elections” Approved January 10^th 1829.”

Sec 7. So much of the 25^th Section of an act entitled “An act regulating elections” approved January 10^th 1829, as relates to the election of County Commissioners is hereby repealed.

This act to take effect from and after its passage.