^sec 1^ Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly That the following district and inhabitants within the same which includes the Town
of Greenfield in the County of Green, towit, beginning at the South east corner of lot numbered thirty two, as designated
on the plat of said Town, and thence runing East west North and South so as to include three fourths of a mile square, be and
the same are ^is^ hereby constituted a body politic and corporate, by the name and style of “the Trustees
of the Town of Greenfield,” whose powers and duties and manner of organization in all respects whatsoever shall
be agreeable to those specified and authorised in an Act, entitled, “An Act to incorporate
the inhabitants of said Towns as may wish to be incorporated” approved February 12th 1831 and those contained in an Act further defining the powers and duties of trustees
of Incorporated Towns approved January 31st 1835.
Sec 2. The county commissioners Court of the said county of Green are Authorised to cause a special election to be held to be held in the said town for one Justice of the peace and one constable on the third Saturday of June next
which election shall be conducted agreeable to the provisions on “an Act to provide
for the election of Justices of the peace and constables,” and the said Justices of
the peace and Constable when elected shall hold their offices until the next general
election to be held by the provisions of the above recited act, at which time, and
quadrennially thereafter, there shall ^be^ one Justice of the peace and one constable elected as in other districts of said
county by the qualified voters of the said town of Greenfield. The county commissioners court for said county are hereby authorised, whenever they may deem proper, to extend the boundary of said
district for the election of a Justice of the peace and constable.
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Sec 3. The county commissioners court of the said county of Greene are also required, and is hereby authorized to order and direct a special election
to be held in the Town of White Hall, for one additional Justice of the peace, and for one constable for said Town, which election shall be held on the seventeenth day of June next or within ten days
thereafter to be conducted according to the provisions of the law recited in the foregoing
section of this act, and the officers so elected shall hold their offices until the
quadrennial election for Justices of the Peace and constables in the year one thousand
eight hundred and thirty nine, and shall be governed in all respects, and be under
the same laws and regulations, as other Justices of the Peace and constables in this
state. And hereafter at each subsequent quadrennial election there shall be elected two
Justices of the Peace and two constables in the said town of White Hall.
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Handwritten Document, 4 page(s), Folder 437, SB 184, GA Session 10-1, Illinois State Archives (Springfield, IL) ,