In force Feb. 11, AN ACT to create the county of Gallatin out of the counties of Gallatin and Saline. '51, except secs. 1,2, which take effect Apr 1 28. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Gallatinish Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That the counties of Gallatin and Saline, in this state, shall be and the same are hereby abolished. ed. New county of ed. § 2. All that territory now embraced in the said counties of Gallatin and Saline shall compose hereafter one new county, to be styled and known as the county of Gallatin. County seat es- § 3. The county seat of said new county of Gallatin is hereby permanently located at Equality, in said county. tablished. Election for co. officers. How conducted. § 4. On the second Monday in April next, an election shall be held at all the precincts established in the said counties of Gallatin and Saline, as heretofore existing, for all the county officers, who, by the constitution and laws of this state, are authorized or required to be elected in the several counties thereof, except justices of the peace and constables, for said new county of Gallatin; and the said election shall be conducted by the same officers and in the same manner, in each of the said counties, as other elections. The clerks of the county courts of said counties shall cause the same notice to be given of said election as is required in other elections for county officers. The returns of said election shall be made to the clerk of the county court of Gallatin county, in the same time returns are required to be made in other elections for county officers. The said clerk of the county court of Gallatin county shall open said returns, and make such certificates and records of the result thereof, as is required by law in general elections. The officers so elected shall hold their offices until the next general election for county officers, and until their successors are duly elected and qualified, and shall give bonds and qualify at the same time and in the same manner as county Justices of the officers elected at a general election. All justices of the peace to continue in office. peace and constables in each of said counties shall be considered and have jurisdiction as justices of the peace for said new county, during the time for which they shall have been elected. collect taxes § 5. The said new county hereby created shall succeed to all the rights and liabilities, in every respect whatever, of both said counties hereby abolished, and all suits may be maintained in behalf of or against said county which could have been maintained against or in favor of either of the counties hereby abolished. Old sheriffs to § 6. The sheriffs of said counties of Gallatin and Saline are hereby authorized and required to collect all taxes due to the state and county in said county, until the same is fully completed, and shall account for and make settlement and pay over the county taxes to the proper officers of the new county of Gallatin, and also of the state, at the same times and in the same manner as other sheriffs are required to account and pay over. er of new m d. 7. The treasurer of said new county of Gallatin shall Duty of treas pay all orders issued by said counties of Saline and Galla- county. tin, before the organization of the new county, in the same manner as if they had been issued by said new county. § 8. All the records and papers of the circuit courts in Records and pasaid counties of Gallatin and Saline shall be delivered to the clerk of the circuit court of said new county. All suits pending in said circuit courts shall be considered and proceeded in as suits pending in the circuit court for said new county to final judgment and execution. pers of circust courts. new county. $ 9. The clerk of the circuit court in said new county Suits to be proof Gallatin shall issue executions on all judgments remain- ceeded with in ing unsatisfied in the circuit courts of both said counties hereby abolished, in the same manner as if said judgments had been rendered in the circuit court for said new county, and nothing in this act contained shall in anywise affect the lien of any judgment rendered in the circuit court of either of the counties hereby abolished. dered in old § 10. The records and papers of the county courts of Executions ou each of said counties shall be delivered to the clerk of the judgments ren county court of said new county, and shall be treated and counties. considered, in all respects, as if the same were the records and papers of the county court of said new county, and Records of conall such proceedings may be had before the several officers ty courts. of the new county hereby created, as might have been had before or by the like officers of each of the counties hereby abolished. ded to 12th cir § 11. The said new county of Gallatin is hereby added New county adto the twelfth judicial circuit, in the place of the counties of cuit. Gallatin and Saline, and circuit courts shall be held in and for said new county by the judge of said circuit, at the court-house in Equality, on the Mondays following the cir- Time of court. cuit court in the county of Hamilton, as prescribed by the act creating the twelfth judicial circuit, and fixing the times of holding courts therein. ings, how dia § 12. The public buildings erected in the said county Public buil of Saline, and in the town of Shawneetown, in Gallatin coun- posed of. ty, shall be conveyed by the county courts of the counties in which they lie, in such manner as may best indemnify the persons at whose expense they have respectively been created. § 13. The first and second sections of this act shall take When in foree. effect from and after the fourth Monday of April next, and the remainder thereof from and after its passage. APPROVED February 11, 1851. In force Feb. 11, 1851. Time of holding courts. L'ardin. Fope. AN ACT changing the time of holding courts in the third judicial circuit. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That the circuit courts in the third judicial circuit shall be begun and held at the times hereinafter mentioned, to wit: In the county of Hardin, at Elizabethtown, on the first Mondays of April and the second Mondays in August; in the county of Pope, at Golconda, on the Mondays following; in the county of Johnson, at Vienna, on the Mondays following; in the county of Williamson, at Marion, on the Mondays following; in the county of Franklin, at Benton, on the Mondays following; in the county of Jackson, at Murphysboro, on the Mondays following; in the county of Union, at Jonesborough, on the Mondays following; in the county of Alexander, at Thebes, on the Mondays following; in the county of Pulaski, at North Caledonia, on the Mondays following; in the county of Massac, at Metropolis City, on the Mondays following, and to continue in the last mentioned county indefinitely, until the business therein shall be disposed of. Writs, subpo- § 2. All writs, subpoenas, and other process, which may nas, &c., made have been or may be issued and made returnable to the terms terms fixed by of courts in said circuit as heretofore required to be holden, Williamson. Pulaski. returnable to this act. Acts repealed. shall be deemed and taken to be returnable to said terms of the courts as required to be holden under this act, and all notices which may have been given, either by publication or otherwise, with reference to the terms as heretofore required to be holden, shall by force of this act refer to the terms of courts as required to be holden under this act, and all proceedings pending in said courts shall be taken up and disposed of as if no alteration had been made in the time of holding said courts. § 3. All acts and parts of acts conflicting with the provisions of this act shall be and the same are hereby repealed. This act to take effect and be in force from and after its passage. APPROVED February 11, 1851. In force Feb. 11, AN ACT to establish the county of Kankakee, and for other purposes therein named. 1851. The county of Kenkakee established. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That all those portions of the county of Will and Iroquois, lying within the following boundaries, to wit: commencing at the northeast corner of fractional township thirty-two north, range fifteen east, and running thence west on the north line of Boundaries. township thirty-two north, and range fifteen, fourteen, thirteen, and twelve east, to the north-east corner of township thirty-two north, range eleven east; thence south on the township line, three miles; thence west six miles, to the township line; thence south on the west line of range eleven east and fourteen west, to the centre of the west line of township twenty-nine north, range fourteen west; thence east, to the Indiana state line; thence north, on said line, to the place of beginning, be and the same are hereby created into a new county, to be called the county of Kankakee : Provided, that a majority of the voters of each of said coun- Proviso. ties of Will and Iroquois, voting upon the question, shall consent thereto, in the manner hereinafter, prescribed. § 2. The qualified voters of said counties of Will and Election to be Iroquois may, at a special election, to be held in the sever- held. al precincts or towns of said counties, on the first Tuesday in April next, vote for or against the organization of said new county of Kankakee, by ballot, upon which shall be written, or printed, or partly written and partly printed, "For the new county" or "Against the new county." § 3. The county clerks of the counties of Will and Iro- Duty of county quois shall give notice of said election, in the several elec- clerks. tion districts of said counties, in the same manner as notices of general elections are given, as nearly as may be, and the judges of election and the clerks of the said several election districts of said counties of Will and Iroquois, shall keep a list of the votes polled at said election, and certify to and return the same to the clerks of the county. courts of their respective counties, in the same manner as is provided for general elections. The said clerks shail, within seven days after said election, proceed to canvass the said vote in the same manner as in general elections, and the said clerk of Iroquois county court shall make return of the votes of said Iroquois county to Baldwin Hawkins and Orson Beebe of said county; and the clerk of the county court of Will county shall make return of the votes of said Will county to Noel Vasseur and William A. Chatfield, of Will county, in each case within three days after the same have been canvassed, and each of said clerks shall, also, within ten days, make return of said votes to the secretary of state. Returns to be made. case new county is form § 4. If it shall be found that a majority of all the voters In in each of said counties of Will and Iroquois, voting upon ed, election for the question, have voted in favor of the organization of said officers to be new county of Kankakee, then there shall be held a special held. election in the several precincts and towns within the limits above described, for said new county of Kankakee, on the second Monday of May next, for county officers. Said election shall be conducted by the judges then holding office under appointment from the counties of Will and Iroquois, How conducted. and at the usual places of holding elections; at which election the qualified voters of said county of Kankakee shail elect all county officers for said county, (except such as are hereinafter excepted) who shall be commissioned and qualified in the same manner as such officers are in other counties in this state, and shall hold said offices until the next Tenure of offices general election for such officers, and until their successors are elected and qualified, and shall have all the jurisdiction and perform all the duties which are or may be conferred upon or required of similar officers in other counties of this Justices of the tinue in office. state. §. 5. Robert Hill, a justice of the Iroquois county court, peace to con- and all justices of the peace and constables who have been heretofore elected and qualified in the counties of Will and Iroquois, whose term of office shall not have expired at the time of said election, and whose place of residence shall be embraced within the limits of said county of Kankakee, shall continue to hold their said offices, and exercise the jurisdiction and perform the duties thereof, until their term of office shall expire, and until their successors shall be elected and qualified. Immediately after said election, the clerk of the county court of Kankakee county shall notify the clerk of the county court of Iroquois county of the Special election same, and the office of the said Robert Hill shall thereupon Iroquois be declared vacant, and an election ordered to fill such vacancy in Iroquois county, in the same manner as other vacancies are filled. in county. ization. Township organ $ 6. The voters at said election for county officers, shall also vote upon the question of township organization, and the same shall be conducted and returns thereof made, in all respects, as near as may be, in accordance with the laws then in force on that subject, and if it shall be found that a majority of all the voters of said county, voting at said election, shall have voted for township organization, it shall be the duty of the county court of said Kankakee county to proceed to lay off said county into townships, and shall order a town meeting to be held at such time as said Township off-county court may deem proper, and the officers then elected shall hold their offices until the next general election for such officers, and until their successors are elected and qualified: Provided, that in cases where justices of the peace and constables have been elected within the limits of such towns, before the division of said county of Kankakee into towns, County justices and whose term of office shall not then have expired, and ship justices. whose residence shall be in any of such towns, such justices and constables shall continue in said offices as provided in this act, and only such additional justices and constables shall be elected in said towns as may be necessary to sup cers. Proviso. to become town |