Papers Of Abraham Lincoln

An act to hold Courts in the seventh Judicial Court
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Sect [Section] 1 Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois represented in the General that the times of Holding Circuit Courts in the seventh Judicial Circuit shall be as follows to wit

In the County of Cook on the first Monday of March. In the County of Will on the fourth Monday of March. In the County of Iroquois on the second Monday of April In the County of Grundy on the Friday next after the Court is holden in Iroquois. In the County of Dupage on the third Monday of April In the County of M^cHenry the next Monday thereafter In the County of Lake the next Monday thereafter. In the County of Cook on the of Iroquois on the first Monday of September, in the County of Grundy on the Fridays next thereafter the first Monday of September. In the County of Will on the second Monday of September In the County of Dupage on fouth Monday of September. In the

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County of M^cHenry on the next Monday thereafter. In the County of Lake the next Monday thereafter In the County of Cook the Monday next thereafter In the County of Cook there shall be a term on the first Monday of August for the purpose of trying criminal and Chancery business only at which ^term^ no writs on the Common law side of the docket shall be returnable.

If the Judge of said seventh Circuit shall be unable to hold the March term in 1841, He shall be required to hold a term the immediately after the Court in holden in Lake County in [~~...~~?] the spring term 1841

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An act to hold Courts in the Seventh Judicial Court ^Circuit^

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[02]/[26]/[1841]
Covell, Merritt L.

to be Engrossed
M L Covell

1John Pearson introduced SB 240 in the Senate on February 26, 1841, and the Senate passed the bill. The House of Representatives concurred on February 27. The Senate and House having laid the bill before the Council of Revision, and ten days not having intervened before the adjournment of the second session of the Twelfth General Assembly, and the Council not having returned the bill with objections on December 5, 1842, the first day Thirteenth General Assembly, the act became law.
Illinois House Journal. 1840. 12th G. A., 543, 549; Illinois Senate Journal. 1840. 12th G. A., 414, 416, 429;Laws of the State of Illinois (1843), 135.