Vandalia Whig and Illinois intelligencer. [volume] (Vandalia, Ill.) 1832-183?, 1833-02-20
LAWS OF ILLINOIS
AN ACT providing for the location OF a permanent
seat Of Justice Of Hancock county.

LAWS OF ILLINOIS
AN ACT providing for the location OF a permanent
/ seat of justice of Hancock county.
SEC. L. BE 1t enacted BY the People oftte State Of
ILLINOIS, rep,esented in the General assembly, That
for the purpose OF locating the permanent seat of JUS
tice, in and for the county of Hancock the following
named persons shall be- and they are hereby appoint
ed, commissioners, viz: William Gilman, Scott Rggs,
and John j. Hardin, of Morgan county who, or a
majority of then, are hereby required to meet at
Monticello, on the Mississippi river, in said county
of Hancock, on the last Monday in the month of
February next, ofwithin thirty days thereafter and.
after being duly worn by justice of the peace
of said county, faithfully to take into consideration
the convenience Of the present and future population
and the eligibility of the situation, shall proceed ac
cordingly to fix apon place for the permanent seat
ofjustice for Hancock county, and give it a name
| Sec. @ When said commissioners, or majority
of Them shall have agreed npon place for tho psr-
manent seat aforesaid they shall make report there
of in writing under their hands and seals, describing
particularly the quarter, fractional quarter secon
township, and range, uoon which they have located
the same, together with the name they may have
given to it, to the county commissioners court Of said
county of Hancock, who shall at the next term of said
court thereafter, the said report to be entered
upon the records Of said court. And the place so Sc
lected by the said commissioners, majority of
them shall be and remain the permanent seat Of JUS
tice for Hancock county; and shall be known and
called by such name may be given it by said
misoners.
SEC. 3. The county commissioners court of said
county, shall allow the SAID commissioners such rea-
sonabe compensation, per day, for their services,
they may deem Just, not exceeding three dollars per
cay, out IF the treasury of said county.
SEC. a. Should the said commissioners locate said
seat of justice lands belonging to individual, or
individuals they shall ask and obtain donation of
any number of acres not less than twenty five, and
also select and describe said donation their report
with reasonable certainty, by metes and bounds:
Provided that should the proprietor proprietors of
such lands, neglect or refuse to make the donation
herein provided for the said commissioners shall then
be required to locate the said seat of Justice the
nearest eligible situation public lands: And it
shall be the duty Of said commissioners previous to
locating the said seat of justice, the land belonging
10 any ndividu, individuals, to take a deed in fee
simple, to said county of Hancock, for such land as
may be donated aforesaid: find prorited further,
that if said commissioners shalt locate said seat
Of Justice the sixteenth section, it shall be
lawful for the school commissioners of said coun-
tT, TO sell and convey to the county commission
ers of said county, for the of the county, any
part said section not exceeding quarter section,
at dollar and TWENTY-FIVE cents acre; and the
county commissioners of said county are hereby au-
thorized and required if the said location shall be
made public land, on the sixteenth section, to
purchase any quantity of said tract OF land not
ceedng quarter secon for the of said county,
which land shall be laid off into town lots, in snch
manner, and sold for the and benefit of said
ty, at such time and olace the county commission
ers court Thereof may direct.
| Approved 18th Feb 1883.
AN ACT supplemental to the act providing for the
! location of permanent seat OF justice of Han
cock county
Be neqactcd By the People of The State of Illinois,
represenhdm the General ASSEMBLY. That so much
of the act to which this is supplement, as requires
the Commissioners named in said act, to meet on the
last Monday in February next, be, and the same is
hereby repealed; and that said Commissioners shall
meet on the second Monday in March, eighteen hun
dred and hrty-three, within thirty days there
after
| APPROVED.
AN ACT for establishing so much of the road from
Vandalia to shelbyvie, as lies in Fayette county,
| and for other purposes
SEC. l. Beltenactedby thepeope ohe state Of Illinois
represented in the General assembly, That Thomas
C. Kirkman, Dempsey Marlborough, and Ezra Griffith,
be, and they are hereby, appointed commissioners,
whose duty it shall be to view and relocate SO much
of the road from Vandaa to Shelbyville, lies be-
tween Vancalia and the county line of Fayette
'ty, where said road crosses the same: they shall
commence at Vandalia, on before the twentieth
day of May next, and view and locate the same to
the bridge on Boaz's Creek thence TO the bridge OIL
( Beck's creek; and thence to the said county line
When they shall have made such location they shall
report the same with map and field notes thereof
to the county Commissioners Court of said county,
who shall, If they approve the same, order il to ce
opened and kept in repair, other State roads are
and shall make order for the reasonable compen-
satlon of said Commissioners for their services, to be
paid out of the Treasury of said county.
| SEC, O. The road from Vandalia to Shelbyville, a:
required to be viewed and located by this act to said
county line, and thence it is at present laid out to
Shebyville, is hereby declared State road.
SEC 3. So much of the county road heretofore laid
out from Shelbyville to Danville lies south Of the
State road leading from shebyville to Paris is here
by declared State road and it shall be the duty OF
the county Commissioners Courts, of the respective
counties through which the passes, to cause the
same to be kept il repair other State roads. This
act to be in force rom its passage.
AN ACT AUTHORIZING the County Commissioners
Court of Crawford county, to levy an additional
tax, for certain purposes
Sec /. Be 1t diacted by the People Of the Statelo'
Illinois represented IN the General Assembly, That
if the County Commissioners Court of the county
of Crawford deem it necessary, they hereby au-
thorized to levy additional tax upon the taxable
inhabitants Of sad county, not exceeding one per
centum the value of the taxable property Of said
inhabitants for the purpose of providing payment to
Benjamin Myers and others, for their actual ex-
penses incurred building the court house in said
Crawford county, under contract with the said
County Commissioners Court.
i SEC. 2. This act shall be in force from and after its
passage.