Sec.[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois represented in the General Assembly.

That an election shall be held in the County of Adams on the first Monday of August Eighteen hundred and forty one, at the usual places of holding elections in said County, for the removal of the seat of Justice of said County, at which election the Clerks thereof shall open two columns, one for Quincy the other for Columbus, and shall take and record the votes of each qualified voter for one of the aforesaid places as the seat of Justice for said County. The said election shall be conducted, and the returns thereof made, in the same manner as is provided in ordinary cases of the election of Justices of the Peace. The Clerk of the County Commissioners court shall immediately after the receipt by him of the election returns, in the presence of two Justices of the Peace, open the election returns, compare them, and certify the same to the County Commissioners Court, and the place having the greatest number of votes shall be and remain the seat of Justice in said County, as herein after provided.

Sec. 2. If at such election Columbus shall receive the greatest number of votes for said seat of Justice, then it shall be the duty of the County Commissioners Court of said County without delay, to cause to be erected, purchased, or rented suitable buildings in the Town of Columbus for a Court house, Clerks office, Sheriffs Office and Recorders Office, After which the County Commissioners Court shall cause proclamation to be made, and published in some public newspaper of said County, declaring and making known, that from [and] after a day to be therein named, not exceeding thirty days from the date thereof, the Seat of Justice of said County shall be

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and remain permanently located at Columbus.

Sec 3. The County officers whose duty it is to keep their respective offices at the Seat of Justice, shall on the day named in the Proclamation herein before specified remove their offices to Columbus.