Sec[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois represented in the General Assembly That one Justice of the Peace, and one constable in addition to the numbers now allowed by law, shall be elected in Blue River precinct in Pike county; which Justice and constable so elected, shall reside in the town of Florence in said precinct.
Sec 2. The County commissioners court of Pike county are hereby required to cause an election to be held on the first monday of April next, or as soon thereafter as practicable, and at each quadrennial election there after for one Justice of the Peace & one constable in said precinct in addition to those now allowed by law
The Justice of the peace and constable so elected shall hold their offices untill the next general election for Justices of the peace, and untill their successors shall be elected and qualified as in other cases, And the Justice of the Peace and constable so elected shall have the same Jurisdiction, and be governed and all respects by the same regulations as other Justices of the Peace and constables
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12/30/1840
Passed the Senate Decr 30 1840
M L Covell Secty[Secretary]
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passed H of Reps
Feb. 11. 1841
Jno Calhoun
Clk[Clerk] H R

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No 34
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Senate
A Bill for an act authorising an additional Justice of the Peace and constable in the town of Florence in Pike County
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02/11/1841
to be Enrolled
M L Covell
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Engrossed
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passed
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Parsons
Humphrey
Wheeler
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Handwritten Document, 2 page(s), Folder 269, SB 69, GA Session 12-2, Illinois State Archives (Springfield, IL) ,