Papers Of Abraham Lincoln

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A Bill for an act for the formation of the tenth Judicial Circuit of the State of Illinois.

Sec.[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the People of the state of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly. That the Counties of Fulton, Warren, Knox, Peoria, Tazewell and Mason, shall hereafter constitute the Tenth Judicial Circuit of the State of Illinois. This act to take effect and be in force from and after its passage2

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A Bill for “an act for the formation of the Tenth Judicial Circuit of the State of Illinois”

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1Lewis W. Ross introduced HB 145 in the House of Representatives on January 29, 1841. On February 11, the House tabled the bill, likely because the Senate on the same day passed an omnibus bill that assigned all the counties into judicial circuits.
Illinois House Journal. 1840. 12th G. A., 296, 368.

2This bill would have amended the previous legislation creating judicial circuits, which had placed Fulton, Knox, and Warren in the Fifth Judicial Circuit; Tazewell in the Eighth; and Peoria in the Ninth. Mason County had just been created in January 1841 and as such had not yet been assigned to a judicial circuit at this point.
An Act Dividing the State into Judicial Circuits; An Act for the Formation of the County of Mason.