Sec.[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That the legal voters of the county of Mercer shall meet at the respective places of holding elections in said county, on the third Monday in April next, and proceed to vote for a point or points whereat to locate the seat of justice for said county; and the point or place so voted for, and receiving a majority of all the votes given at the said election, shall be and remain the permanent seat of justice of the county of Mercer, any law to the contrary notwithstanding.

Sec. 2. In the event of no one place receiving a majority of all the votes given at the said election, it shall be lawful for the legal voters, on the Monday two weeks next following the third Monday in April, again to meet and vote, and on each Monday two weeks until some one place shall receive a majority of all the votes given at one election: Provided, however, That the place receiving the lowest number of votes shall not be voted for at any subsequent election.

Sec. 3. It shall be the duty of the clerks of election, or other authorized person, within three days after any election, to return the poll-books to the clerk of the county commissioners’ court; and the clerk shall cause the poll-books so returned

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to be preserved with the records of said county. It shall also be the duty of the clerk of the county commissioners’ court to give at least ten days’ notice, at three public places within each precinct, of the time of holding the election contemplated in the first section of this act, and six days’ notice of any subsequent election provided for by this act.

Sec. 4. If the seat of justice shall be removed from the town of Millersburg, the county commissioners shall require and receive a donation, of not less than forty acres of land, from any individual or individuals on whose land the county seat may be located according to the provisions of this act, and on which land, so donated, the public buildings shall be erected; and the remainder of such donation shall be applied to the erection of the public buildings within said county

Sec. 5. If the seat of justice shall be removed from the town of Millersburg to the town of New Boston, the proprietor or proprietors of said town shall donate to the said county a quantity of land or lots within the limits of said town of New Boston, not less than two acres, and the sum of four thousand dollars in money; one-fourth of which shall be paid to the county commissioners, or their order, at the commencement of the erection of public buildings; and the remainder in three equal instalments of six, twelve, and eighteen months, from and after the date of the first payment.2

Approved, February 26, 1839.