Sec[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the People of the state of Illinois represented in the General Assembly; That the inhabitants of the town of Lynnville in Morgan county, are hereby authorized to become incorporated upon the same terms, and in the same
manner prescribed by the act entitled “An act to incorporate the inhabitants of such
towns as may wish to be incorporated” approved February 12th 1831” notwithstanding there may not be one hundred and fifty inhabitants in said
town. And upon complying with the provisions of the act aforesaid the inhabitants of
said town and the President and trustees thereof, when elected shall have[,] exercise[,] and enjoy all the rights[,] privileges[,] and powers granted and confered upon incorporated towns of this state: Provided that the trustees shall not have the power of levying and collecting taxes upon any
land not laid out in town lots.
Sec 2. A Justices District is hereby created and established to include the said town
of Lynnville; the boundaries of which shall be one mile square, the center of the public square
in Lynnville to be center of the district. And the said district shall elect one Justice of the
peace and one constable, to have and exercise the like jurisdiction and powers as
other Justices of peace and constables.
^4^ Sec 3. The clerk of the county commissioners
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court of Morgan county is hereby required to give notices for the election of a Justice of the peace and
constable in said district on or before the first Monday in May next, And1 on the day of election the electors present shall choose judges, who shall appoint
Clerks, and the election shall be conducted in all respects, and returns made as required
by the law regulating the elections of Justices of the peace and constables. The persons elected at said election shall
continue in office until superseded by the election of others at the next general
election of Justices of the peace and constables.
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A Bill entitled An act to incorporate the town^s ^ of Lynnville and creating a Justices district therein named & for other purposes”
A Bill entitled An act to incorporate the town^s ^ of Lynnville and creating a Justices district therein named & for other purposes”
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2John J. Hardin, Joseph E. Watkins, and Samuel G. Thompson formed a select committee in the House of Representatives that considered the bill.
Illinois House Journal. 1836. 10th G. A., 1st sess., 456.
Handwritten Document, 4 page(s), Folder 346, SB 85, GA Session 10-1, Illinois State Archives [Springfield, IL] ,