In force, Feb.[February] 19, 1841.
An ACT to authorize the election of an additional County Commissioner for Henderson county.
1Additional county com’r[commissioner] to be elected
Term of office
Sec.[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That on the first Monday in August next there shall be elected in the county of
Henderson, one county commissioner for said county in addition to the numbers already provided to be elected by the act entitled “An act creating the county of Henderson,” approved January (twentieth) one thousand eight hundred and forty-one, who shall hold his office for one year from and after the first Monday in August
next as aforesaid, and thereafter elections for county commissioners shall be held,
notice given, and returns thereof made in the same manner as now required by law.2
Approved, February 19, 1841.
1Wyatt B. Stapp introduced SB 197 in the Senate on February 13, 1841, and the Senate passed the bill. The House of Representatives passed the bill on February 17. The Council of Revision approved the bill on February 19 and the act became law.
Illinois House Journal. 1840. 12th G. A., 404, 420; Illinois Senate Journal. 1840. 12th G. A., 313, 335, 351, 355-56.
2Section four of the act establishing Henderson County provided for the election of all county officials, except one county commissioner,
on the first monday in April. Section five made provision for the election of two
county commissioners, one to serve three years, one to serve two years.
Printed Document, 1 page(s), Laws of the State of Illinois, Passed by the Twelfth General Assembly (Springfield, IL: William Walters, 1841), 92, GA Session 12-2,