Sec[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly. That the Corporate limits of the Town of Fayette in the County of Green shall be one square half mile, the Center of which bounds, being the North East Corner
of the West half of the North East quarter of Section thirteen, Town ten, North of
Range Ten West
Sec. 2. The inhabitants of the said Town of Fayette, are hereby authorized and empowered to become incorporated in the manner and upon
the terms prescribed in the act entitled “an act to incorporate the inhabitants of
such Towns as may wish to become incorporated” approved February 12th 1831 notwithstanding there may not be one hundred and fifty inhabitants in said Town,
and Complying with the provisions of the aforesaid act, the inhabitants of saidTown and the president and trustees thereof, when elected, shall have, exercise and enjoy
all the rights, previliges, and powers granted and Confered by the act above recited
Sec. 3. The County Commissioners Court of the County of Green, is hereby authorized and required to Cause an Election to be held in the said Town
ofFayette, on the first Monday in August next, and on the first Monday in august every four
years thereafter, for One justice of the peace and One Constable; for which purpose
there
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shall be included the inhabitants residing on Sections twelve and thirteen in the
said Township and range, and the County Commissioners shall from time to time, when they may deem proper, enlarge the said district so
as to include a greater number of voters; and the persons when so elected shall have
and exercise the same jurisdiction, hold their offices by the same tenure and be under
the same regulations in all respects as other Justices of the peace and Constables
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Handwritten Document, 4 page(s), Folder 109, HB 139, GA Session 11-1, Illinois State Archives [Springfield, IL] ,