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Sec[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That from and after the passage of this act that the name of the town of Cincinnatti in the county of Tazwell be and the same is hereby changed to the name of Pekin and by that name it shall forever hereafter be known and designated
Sec 2. That the said town ^with all the additions thereto^ shall hereafter be attached to and form a part of the old ^original^ town of Pekin in said county and the Trustees of the said original town of Pekin are hereby authorised to extend their town limits over the town plat of Territory included in the plat of said town ^with the additions thereto^ and to exercise such jurisdiction over the same as is confered ^on them^ by Law
sec 3 .this act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.
Sec 3. That all the Laws, orders, and ordinances now in force in the said ^original^ town of Pekin are hereby declared to be in full force and binding in Law over the town plat of
the said town of Cincinnatti with and all the additions thereto
This act to take effect and be in force from and after its passage
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1Robert Stuart from the Committee on Petitions introduced HB 21 in the House of Representatives on July 14, 1837, and the House passed the bill on July 17. On July 19, the Senate referred the bill to a select committee, which took no further action.
Journal of the House of Representatives of the Tenth General Assembly of the State
of Illinois, at a Special Session (Vandalia, IL: William Walters, 1837), 51, 97; Journal of the Senate of the Tenth General Assembly of the State of Illinois, at
a Special Session (Vandalia, IL: William Walters, 1837), 79, 89, 98.
Handwritten Document, 2 page(s), Folder 21, HB 21, GA Session 10-S, Illinois State Archives (Springfield, IL) ,