Papers Of Abraham Lincoln

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Sec[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the People of the state of Illinois represented in the General assembly, That the County of Livingston shall be added to, and form a part of the seventh Judicial circuit of this state, and the Judge of said circuit shall preside and hold the courts in said county. and the courts of said county shall be holden at such time, as the said Judge shall appoint. 2

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Thomas Jr., Jesse B.

passed the Senate July 17^th 1837
J B. Thomas
Sec^ry[Secretary] Senate

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An act to attach the County of Livingston to the 7^th Judicial Circuit.

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Laid on table

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Enrolled

1William Stadden introduced SB 32 in the Senate on July 15, 1837. The Senate referred the bill to a select committee. The select committee reported back the bill on July 18 with an amendment, in which the Senate concurred. The Senate passed the bill as amended. On July 21, the House of Representatives tabled the bill.
Illinois House Journal. 1837. 10th G. A., special sess., 114, 154; Illinois Senate Journal. 1837. 10th G. A., special sess., 57, 86.

2When the legislature established Livingston County in February 1837, it attached the new county to the First Judicial Circuit, where it stayed until 1839, when it moved to the newly created Eighth Judicial Circuit.
An Act to Establish the County of Livingston; An Act Dividing the State into Judicial Circuits.