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 April, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty one, an election shall be held in the County of Lake, in the State of Illinois, at the usual places of holding elections, for the purpose of determining whether the present seat of justice of said County, shall be removed and relocated.

Sec 2 The Judges and Clerks of said election, shall make two Columns in, their Poll, Books, and in one shall be inserted, the name Burlington, and in the other the name Little Fort, and the voters at said Election shall vote in favor of the one or other of said places; and whichever of said places shall receive a majority of votes, shall be the seat of Justice for said County

Sec 3 Said election shall be conducted, and returns thereof made, in accordance with the existing Laws, regulating elections.

Sec 4 If the majority of votes, at said Election, shall be given for Little Fort aforesaid, it shall be the duty of the County Commissioners of said County within one month after said Election, to proceed to Little Fort aforesaid, and select and locate the site for the County Seat; having first been sworn before some Justice of the Peace, to locate said County Seat with a view to the best interests of said County

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Sec 5 The County seat shall not be so located at Little Fort, unless it shall appear that the said County of Lake, will have a pre-emption right to one hundred and sixty acres of land by said location by an act or acts of Congress, enacted for such purposes, or unless the present pre-emption claimants to said Little Fort, shall then and there deed, and quit claim to said County Commissioners all their right, title, and interest to such an eighty ^forty^ acre lot, as the said Commissioners may have selected for the use and benefit of said County; and the last of said eighty ^forty^ acres, when it comes into market, shall be paid out of the treasury of said County.