Papers Of Abraham Lincoln

In force, Mar.[March] 1, 1839.

AN ACT to establish a justice’s district in township seven north, range seven east, in Peoria county.
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Justices’ district.

Sec.[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois , represented in the General Assembly, That all that district included within the boundaries of township seven north, range seven east, in the county of Peoria, be, and the same is hereby, constituted a district for the election of a justice of the peace and constable.

Election.

Sec. 2. The county commissioners’ court of the county of Peoria are hereby authorized and required to cause an election to be held on or before the first Monday in August next, and (at) each quadrennial election thereafter, for one justice of the peace and one constable in said district. The persons 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 in this State.

Approved, March 1, 1839.

1On February 20, 1839, John Hamlin introduced SB 239 in the Senate. On February 26, the Senate passed the bill. On February 27, the House of Representatives passed the bill. On March 1, the Council of Revision approved the bill and the act became law.
Journal of the House of Representatives of the Eleventh General Assembly of the State of Illinois, at their First Session, Begun and Held in the Town of Vandalia, December 3, 1838 (Vandalia, IL: William Walters, 1838), 525, 548, 573; Journal of the Senate of the Eleventh General Assembly of the State of Illinois, at their First Session, Begun and Held in the Town of Vandalia, December 3, 1838 (Vandalia, IL: William Walters, 1838), 363, 394, 429, 452-53, 474, 476.