Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1847-09-07

either of them, from which it shall be taken.
to less contents than four hundred SQUARE
miles; nor shall any county be former of less
contents: nor shall any line thereof pass with
in less than ten miles of any county seat of
the county or counties proposed to be divided.
SEC. 2. No county shall be divided.
or have any part stricken therefrom.
without submitting the question to a vote
ofthe people of the county, nor unless a
majority of all the legal voters of the
county voting on the question shall vote
for the same.
SEC. 3. All territory which has been
or may be stricken off, by legislative en-
actment. from any organized county or
counties, for the purpose of forming a
new county. and which shall remain IN
organized after the period provided for
such organization. shall be and remain
a part of the county or counties from
which it was originally taken. for all state
and county purposes, until otherwise pro-
vided bylaw.
SEC. There shall be no territory
stricken from any county unless major.
ity. of the voters living in such territory
shall pettion for such division; and no
territory shall be added to any county
without the consent Of the majority of the
voters of the county to which it is propos.
ed to be added.
Sec. 5. No county seat shall be re-
moved until the point to which it is pro-
posed to be removed shall be fixed by law,
and majority ofthe voters of the county
shall have voted for its removal to such
point.
Sec. 6. Tie general assembly shall
provide, by q general law, for town.
ship organization, under which any coun-
ty may organize whenever majority of
the voters of such county, at any general
election, shall so determine; and when-
ever any county shall adopt a township
organization. so much ofthis constitution
as provides for the management Of the
fiscal concerns ofthe said county by the
county court may be dispensed with, and
the affairs of SAID county may be transact
ed in such manner as the general assemb-
ly may provide.
Sec. 7. There shall be elected in
each county in this state, by the qualified
electores thereofa sheriff, who shall hold
his office for the term Of two years, and
until his successor shall have been elected
and qualified; Provided, no person shall
be eligible to the eaid office more than
once in four years.
ARTICLE VIII.
MILITIA.
SECTION 1. The militia of the state
Of Illinois shall consist of all free male
able. bodied persons, (negroes, mulauoes,
and Indians excepted, resident of the
state, between the ages of eighteen and
forty five years, except such persons as
now are or hereafter may be exempt by
laws ofthe United States or of this state,
and shall be armed. equipped,& trained as
the general assembly may provide by law.
SEC. 2. No person or persons, con
scientiously scrupulous of bearing arms,
shall be compelled to do militia duty in
time of peace, provided such person or
persons shall pay an equivalent for such
exemption.
SEC. 3. Company, battalion, and
regimental officers. staff officers excepted,
shall be elected by the persons compos-
ing their several companies, battalions,
and regiments.
Sec. 4. Brlgadier and major generals
shall be elected by the officers of their
brigades and divisions, respectively.
SEC. 5. All militia officers shall be
commissioned by the governor, and may
hold their commissions for such time as
the Legislature may provide.
Sec. 6. The militia shall, in all cases,
except Treason, felony, OF breach ofthe
peace, be privileged from arrest during
their attendance at musters and elections
of officers, and in going to and returning
from the same.
ARTICLE. TX.
OF THE REVENUE.
SECTION L. The general assembly
may, whenever they shall deem it neces-
sary, cause 10 be collected from ali able.
bodied, free, white male inhabitants of
this state, over the age of twenty. one
years, and under the age of sixty years,
who are entitled to the right of suffra ge.
a captiation tax of not less than fifty cents
nor more than one dollar each.
Sec. 2. The general assembly shall
provide for levying tax by valuation, so,
that every person and corporation shall
pay tax in proportion to the value Of his
or her property; such value to be ascer-
tanned by some person or persons to be
elected or appointed in such manner as
the general assembly shall direct, and
not otherwise, but the general assembly
shall have powerto tax pedlers, auctioners,
brokers' hawkers, merchants, commissions
merchants, showmen, jugglers, inn. keep
ers, grocery keepers, toll bridges and fer
Tres, and persons using and exercising
franchises and privileges, in such rnanuer
as they shall from to time direct.
SEC. 3. The property of the state,