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Sec.[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the people of the state of Illinois represented in the General assembly.
That it shall be lawful for the county commissioners of Champaign and Iroquois counties at their June term next, to destrict their respective counties, into three several destricts, as nearly equal in territory, as in their opinion the convenience of the inhabitants,
will permit,, to be called commissioners destricts, and to number the same by numbers, one, two, and three, and to enter the same of
record, on the records, of their respective counties expressly, designating, the boundaries
of each destrict.
Sec. 2. The county commissioner to be elected in each of those counties on the first
Monday in August next shall be elected in destrict number one, and the county commissioner, to be elected in each of those counties
on the first Monday in August, one thousand eight hundred and forty two, shall be
elected, in destrict number two, and the county commissioner, to be elected, in each of those counties,
on the first Monday in August, one thousand eight hundred and forty three, shall be
elected in destrict number three, and so alternately ever hereafter.
Sec. 3. Any person who shall hereafter be elected county commissioner, in any destrict, as aforesaid and shall afterwards remove from said destrict shall thereby vacate said office, and the same measures shall be taken to fill such
vacancy, as now are, or may hereafter be granted by law.
sec. 4. Nothing in this act shall be so construed as to prevent the legal voters in any
part of said Counties from voting for said commissioners
Sec. 5th This act to take Effect and be inforce from and after its passage.
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1Mathew W. Busey introduced HB 246 in the House of Representatives on February 15, 1841. The House passed the bill on February 20. On February 25,
the Senate tabled the bill.
Illinois House Journal. 1840. 12th G. A., 403, 445, 453; Illinois Senate Journal. 1840. 12th G. A., 360-61, 404.
Handwritten Document, 2 page(s), Folder 176, HB 246, GA Session12-2,
Illinois State Archives (Springfield, IL) ,