The commttee amend by inserting after the word that the following
Sec 1 Be it enacted by the people of the state of Illinois represented in the General
Assembly
that the terms of holding the circuit courts of the several counties in the fifth judical circuit, ^in this state^ shall commence at the times, herein after specified and continue to be held from
day to day, sundays excepted, until the business in said courts shall be disposed
of, unless it shall be necessary to close the term, to enable the judges to attend
in the next county for the purpose of holding court
In the county of schuyler on the first mondays in April and September, in the county of [...?] Brown on the third
In the county of Brown on the third mondays of April & September
In the county of Adams on the fourth mondays of April and September
In the county of Hancock on the second mondays in May and October
In the county of McDonough on the third mondays of May and October
In the county of Warren on the fourth mondays of May and October
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In the county of Mercer on the first mondays in June and November
In the county of Knox, on the second mondays in June and November
In the county of Fulton on the third mondays of June and November
Sec[Section] 2 All writs or other process which may have ^been^ issued from any of said circuit courts since the last sitting of the same, or which may hereafter be issued previous to
this act’s being received in said respective counties shall be deemed and are hereby
mad[e] returnable on the first day of the next terms of the said circuit court to be held by virtue of this act and all proceedings either
civil or criminal, which are now pending therein, shall be disposed of according to
law, in the same manner a[s] if no alteration had been made in the times of holding said courts
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A Bill for an act to provide for the times of holding the circuit courts in the fifth judicial circuit
Handwritten Document, 4 page(s), Folder 180, HB 230, GA Session: 11-1,
Illinois State Archives (Springfield, IL) ,