In force March 4, 1837.
AN ACT to incorporate the towns of Greenfield and Whitehall, in Green county.
1Corporation constituted a body politic and corporate
Powers and duties
Sec.[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That the following district and the inhabitants within the same, which includes
the town of Greenfield, in the county of Green, to wit: beginning at the southeast corner of lot number
thirty-two, and designated on the plat of said town, and thence running east, west, north, and south, so as to include three-fourths
of a mile square, be and the same 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 such 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,
Com. court to cause a spec[ial] election
Term of office
Can extend boundary
Sec. 2. The county commissioners’ court of the said county of Green are authorised to cause a special election 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 agreeably to the provisions of “an act to provide
for the election of justices of the peace and constables,” and the said justice 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 in 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.
County com. to cause a special election
Term of office
Sec. 3. That the county commissioners’ court of the said county of Green are also required and is hereby authorised to order and direct a special election
to be held
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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.2Approved 4th March, 1837.
1On February 13, 1837, John Allen introduced SB 184 in the Senate. On February 21, following the addition of a third section, the Senate passed the bill. On February 27, the House passed the bill and then amended the title to add “and White Hall”. On March 1, the
Senate concurred with the amendment from the House to the title of the bill. On March
4, theCouncil of Revision approved the bill, and the act became law.
Illinois House Journal. 1836. 10th G. A., 1st sess., 667, 736, 796, 849; Illinois Senate Journal. 1836. 10th G. A., 1st sess., 401, 436-437, 476-477, 569, 570, 634, 639-640.
Printed Document, 2 page(s), Incorporation Laws of the State of Illinois, Passed at a Session of the General Assembly (Vandalia, IL: William Walters, 1837), 307-08, GA Session: 10-1