Edwardsville spectator. [volume] (Edwardsville, Ill.) 1819-1826, 1826-03-11
ILLINOIS BOUNTY LANDS.

lLLlNOlo BUNNY LANDS.
BY an act passed by the General As
sembly Of this state, At their late session,
the unorganized counties of Warren and
Mercer (lhe latter of which includes the
Lead Mines on Fever river became at
tached, on the first day Of March, 1926,
to the county of Peoria.
| The counties on the Military Bounty
Tract are the following:
| Organized countie8.-Calhoun, Pike,
Adams, Schuyler, Fulton, Peoria.
| Unorganized countless Hancock (at-
tached to Adams county, Mscdonough,
attached to Schuyler county, Warren,
Mercer and Putnam, attached to Peoria
county, Knox and Henry, (attached to
Fulton county.) Each Of these counties
has right to be organized as soon as it
shall cont,in $50 inhabitants.
The comfy sea, of Calhoun county, is
on the northwest quarter Of section 8,
township II south OF the base line, range
2 west of The meridian, and is called Gil,
iead.
The county seat of Pike, is on the N.
w. or. of Sec. OF, T. E S. R. w. and
is called ,Atias.
The county seat of Adams is on the
n. w. Or. of Sec. T. 2 S. R. 9 w.
and IS called Quincy.
The county seat of Schuyler, is on
Section so, +. 9. N. R. w. and is
called Reardsto7un.
The county seat of Fulton, is on Sec.
%, T. 5 N. R. E. and is called Lcv-
istovn.
The county seat Of Peoria, is on the
n. E. or. of Sec. 9, I. 8 N, r. 8 E.
A new location of the county seat O.
Schuyler, is to be made, in pursuance
Of law passed at the late session of the
General Assembly.
The revenue law has been so altered
as to require non-residents to pay their
taxes on or before the The first day Of
AuSu st, annually. IF not paid by thai
time, the land is TO be advertised, and
sale is TO take place in the month Of ia.
nuary following, subject to redemption
within wo years after the sale. The
sale of the land may be prevented by
paying the taxes, interest, and cost Of ad-
ver'ising, at any time before the land is
dffered.
H. As the owners of Illinois bounty
ands are dispersed throughout the Un-
ion, it is believed that all editors who
give place 10 the above information in
their journals, will confer favor on
some of their readers.
The speech Of Mr.. Cook, which we
gave in our last, was principally in an
swer to Mr.. Vinton, of Ohio who
seems TO think that the policy has been
too much in favor of thrawing public
lands into market. We trust he did not
mean to cherish selfish, or sectional
feeling, that looks with jealousy on the
advancement Of Ohio's younger sisters
This would be so great want of mag
nanimity that we could not believe rep
resen'alive Of the young but great state
of Ohio guilty of it. II must be that Mr..
| Vinton has taken an erroneous view of
the subject. He said that by this plan
the market was g!ut,ed with immense
regions Of land, to the great de,riment, as
he thought, of the government, and the
people too, who settled on them. Ii was
true, the country was Quorum in this
way, but not peopled."
IF Mr.. Vnton were to visit our state,
he would find large tracts Of country
which have not yet been brought into
market, settled, not densely, il is true, but
as much, or nearly as much so, as other
parts. This is constantly the case |:
The settlers are ever in advance of the
surveys. They look for the lands best
adapted to their purposes: If in market,
and they are sble, they buy: if not, they
sit down and wait their own or the go.