Section 1. Be it enacted by the People of the state of Illinois Represented in the General Assembly. That from and after the passage of this act the Judicial Circuits of this state shall be [comprised?] of the Counties following.

The Counties of Morgan, ^Cass^ Pike, Calhoun, Green, and Macoupin shall compose the first circuit,

The Counties of Madison, Clinton, Bond, Montgomery, Fayette, Shelby, Marion and Effingham shall compose the second circuit,

The Counties of Gallatin, White, Edwards, Wayne, Wabash, Hamilton[,] Jefferson, Franklin, and Pope shall compose the third circuit,

The Counties of Champaign, Vermillion[,] Coles, Edgar, Clark, Jasper, Crawford, Lawrence, and Clay shall compose the fourth circuit,

The Counties of Adams, Hancock[,] Warren, Mercer, Knox, Fulton, Schuyler ^Brown^ and M^cDonough shall compose the fifth circuit,

The Counties of Jo Daviess, ^Stephenson^[,] Boon, Winnebago, ^ [...?] ^ Ogle, Whiteside, and Rock Island shall compose the sixth circuit,

The Counties of Cook, Will, Iroquois, Kane , ^Kane^ De Kalb and M^cHenry shall compose the seventh circuit,

The Counties of Sangamon, Macon[,] M^cLean, Tazewell[,] and Livingston shall compose the Eighth circuit

The Counties of Peoria, Putnam, Marshall ^Kane^ ^De Kalb^ Bureau, Henry, ^&^ Lasalle, shall compose the ninth circuit,

The Counties of Alexander, Johnson, Union, Jackson, Perry, Randolph, Washington, Monroe, and Saint Clair shall compose the tenth circuit,

Section 2. The Eighth, Ninth, and tenth, circuits are hereby created, and established as additional circuits to those heretofore provided for by Law.

Section 3. The Judge heretofore appointed as Judge of the first Judicial circuit, is hereby assigned to, and required to preside and hold the courts in the several counties composing the Eighth circuit enacted by this act, and released from discharging those duties in the first circuit as counties composing the first circuit.

Section 4. There shall be appointed by joint Ballot of both Branches of the General Assembly during the present session^4 (^ two circuit Judges one) for the ninth ^5 (^and the other for the tenth) circuit enacted [?] this act, who shall be commissioned by the Governor as circuit Judges of this state, and shall hold their offices during good behaviour, who shall be vested with all the powers conferred; upon, and

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required to perform all the duties imposed upon, circuit Judges of this state.

Section 5. The Judges of the second[,] third[,] Fourth, fifth, sixth[,] and seventh circuits, heretofore appointed in said circuits shall Hold the courts in the counties of which said circuits are composed by the provisions of this act.