Henry County Circuit Court

City: Cambridge

County: Henry

State: Illinois

The Illinois General Assembly placed Henry County in the Fifth Judicial Circuit in 1831. It became part of the Sixth Circuit in 1835 and the Ninth in 1839. Henry County returned to the Sixth Circuit in 1841 before moving to the Tenth in 1849. In 1852, the county returned again to the Sixth Circuit and remained there for the remainder of Abraham Lincoln’s lifetime.

“An Act Supplemental to the Several Acts Regulating the Supreme and Circuit Courts of this State,” 16 February 1831, Laws of Illinois (1831), 45; An Act Dividing the State into Judicial Circuits; An Act Dividing the State into Judicial Circuits; An Act to Establish Circuit Courts; “An Act to Establish the Tenth Judicial Circuit, and to Fix the Times of Holding Courts in the Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, Ninth, and Eleventh Judicial Circuits, and for Other Purposes,” 1 December 1849, Laws of Illinois (1849), 12; “An Act Changing the Times of Holding Courts in the Sixth Judicial Circuit,” 23 June 1852, Laws of Illinois (1852), 239; “A Bill for an Act Fixing the Times of Holding Courts in the Sixth Judicial Circuit,” 14 February 1855, Laws of Illinois (1855), 130-31; “An Act to Establish the Twenty-Second Judicial Circuit, and to Fix the Time for Holding Courts in the Sixth Circuit,” 5 February 1857, Laws of Illinois (1857), 6-8; “An Act to Fix the Times of Holding Courts in the Sixth Circuit and to Regulate the Practice Therein,” 19 February 1859, Laws of Illinois (1859), 54-55; “An Act to Fix the Time of Holding the Term of the Circuit Court in Henry County, in the Sixth Judicial Circuit,” 7 March 1867, Public Laws of Illinois (1867), 52-53.