Sec.[Section] 1 Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That at any regular or special term of the county commissioners court of the county of Calhoun, which may be held within nine months from the passage of this act, at which a petition signed by one Hundred legal voters of said county, shall be presented, praying that an election may be held in said county, for the purpose of removing and relocating the seat of Justice thereof it shall be the duty of Said county commissioners court to order an election to be held in accordance to the wishes of said petitioners within thirty days after the expiration of the term of the court to which such petition may have been presented. Said election shall be held at the same places, and be conducted as near as may be in the same manner as the general biennial elections are.

Sec 2 The Judges and clerks of said election shall ^make^ a column in their poll Books at the several precincts at the head of which shall be written the name of the place voted for by the several voters, and the place receiving the highest number of votes, provided that number shall be a majority of the whole number given, shall be and remain the seat of justice for said county from that time forward, or so soon thereafter as suitable buildin[gs] can be prepared, but if no one place voted for shall have received a majority of the votes poll[ed,] then in that case it shall be the duty of the clerk of the county court of said county to give notice in the several precincts, that no one of the places voted for did receive a majority of the votes, and that another election will be held

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four weeks from the day on which the first election was held, in which notices the said clerk shall state the number of votes given, at the former election for the several places, and at the time of holding the second election the voters shall vote for one or the other of the two places which received the highest number of votes at the first election and the place receiving the highest number of votes at the second election shall be the county seat

Sec 3

The act entitled “an act to re-locate the county seat of Calhoun County approved the fourth day of March 1837” be and the same is hereby repealed