The select Committee to which was referred the bill for an act to create the County of Du Page have had the same under consideration and directed report the same to the senate with the following amendments.

Amend the first section of the bill by striking out the first section of the bill and substituting the following in lieu thereof:

Be it enacted by the people of the state of Illinois represented in the General assembly That all of that tract of Country lying within the following boundaries, to wit commencing on the east line of Kane County at the division line between sections eighteen and nineteen in township thirty seven north of range nine east of the third principal meridian pursuing the same line eastward until it strikes the Des Plaines River then following the said river up to the line range line between townships eleven and twelve east of the third principal meridian thence north on said line, to township line between forty and forty one; thence east west on said line to the east line of Kane County, thence south on the east line of Kane County to the place of beginning shall constitute a new County by the name of Du Paige, Provided always that no part of the Country above described now forming a part of Will County shall be included within the said County of Du Page, unless the inhabitants now residing in said part of Will County shall by a vote to be given by them at the next August

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election decide by a majority of legal voters that they prefer to be under have the said territory make a part of the said County of Du Page