A bill for “an act to locate the Seat of Justice of Stark County, and to extend the limits of Said County,”—

Section 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois represented in 1 the General Assembly, That Cyrus Walker of M^cDonough County, D. G. Salisbury of Bureau County & William Fenn of Marshall County, are hereby appointed Commissioners to locate the Seat of Justice in and for the county of Stark, Said Commissioners or a majority of them shall meet at the house of W^m H. Henderson in said County on the first Monday in April next or as soon thereafter as may be convenient, and after being duly sworn by some Justice of the peace of said County faithfully to perform the duties required of them by this act, shall proceed to locate the county seat of said county, having due regard to the present and future population of said county, The eligibility of the site, and the General good of the whole people of said county, as near the Geographical centre of said County as may be agreably to the provisions of this act

Section 2. Said Commissioners ^shall^ by donation or purchase procure a clear and indefeasible2 title with General Warrantee deed to at least forty acres of land upon which the public buildings shall be erected and Said County seat located, Said deed shall be made to and in the name of the county commissioners of Stark County and their successors in office, for the use and benefit of Said County of Stark.

Section 3. It shall be the duty of the County Commissioners aforesaid, immediately after said County seat shall be located, to cause to be surveyed into lots, upon such plan as may be agreed on by them, the lands upon which the location has been made, to proceed to advertise and Sell the Same, at such time, & on such Terms, as they may deem most advisable for the good of the County, and the proceeds of said sale, or So much thereof as may be Sufficient, shall be faithfully

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applied to the erection of a court House and Jail for said County of Stark.

Section 4. The County commissioners Court of the county of Stark shall appropiate out of the County Treasury the Sum of three dollars per day to each of the commissioners for the number of days they may be necessarily employed in locating the County seat & travelling ^to^ and from the County aforesaid

Section 5. That all that part of Henry County within the folowing boundary shall hereafter be attached to and form a part of the County of Stark towit, begining at the South east corner of the county of Henry running north with the range Line dividing ranges five and Six, to the north east corner corner of Section twenty four, in Township Fifteen north of Range five East of the fourth principal meredian, thence west with the Sectional lines to the North west corner of Section twenty two in range four east, thence South along the sectional line to the line dividing Townships thirteen and fourteen north, thence east with Said line to the beginning It being nine miles Square out of the South east corner of Said county.