Sec 1 “Be it enacted by the People of the [state of] Illinois represented in the General Assembly That all that tract of Country contained within the following boundaries to wit, beginning at the North west corner of Town twenty five, North Range two east of the fourth principal meridian, thence east on said Township line ^(^to the range line, between ranges three, and four, thence north on the range line, to the section line between Sections eighteen and nineteen, in town twenty six north of Range four east, thence east on said section line to the line of Stephenson County in Range five, thence south with the line of Stephenson County, to the south west Corner of said County, thence east [with] the south boundary of Stephenson County^)^ to the middle of range seven thence south on the section line, to the north boundary of Whitesides County, thence west along the north boundary of Whitesides County to the middle of the Channel of the Mississippi River, thence up the middle of the Channel of the Mississippi river to a point opposite the place of beginning shall Constitute the County of Carroll

Sec. 2. That for the purpose of fixing the permanent seat of Justice of the said County it shall be lawful for the legal voters within the above naimed boundaries to meet on the second Monday in April [nex]t at the several places of holding [elec]tions and vote for the place where [the] County seat shall be located and

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the place receiving a majority of all the votes given shall be the permanent seat of Justice of said County.

Sec. 3. The County Seat shall be located on lands belonging to the United States if a site for said County seat on such lands can be found equally as elligible as upon lands owned by individuals. If such location shall be made upon lands claimed by any individual in said County, or any individual having preemption right or title to the same the claimant or proprietor upon whose lands, claim or preemption right the said seat of Justice may be located shall make a deed in fee simple to any number of acres of said tract not less than twenty five to the said County or in lieu thereof such claimant owner or owners shall donate to the said County at least three thousand five hundred dollars to be applied to the building of County buildings in six, twelve and eighteen months after the locating said County seat. If the Town of Savanna in said County should receive the majority of all the votes given the [propr]ietors or owners of said town are hereby required to donate the said new County for the purpose of erecting public buildings a sufficient number of lots in the town of Savanna for the accommodation of the necessary public buildings and three thousand five hundred dollars . . .

. . .provided by law.

Sec. 8. The east half of the [seventh] range lying north of Whitesides County and South of Steph[enson] County in towns twenty three, [twenty] four and twenty five [north shall] be attached to and form [a part] of Ogle County.