Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1861-02-12
congressional Appor,ioumeui.

The following y the Republican caucus
bill FOR apPorticniuS the State into C.n
gressiunal districts, which .ult.ess will
he forced through both Houses under the
party lash :
SECTION l. Be il enacted by the movie
of tine state If Illinois. represented ia tbe
General Assembly, Tint frr the purn4so
OF elec'ing thirteen representatives TO the
house uf representatives O! the c8urre-s #
the United Slare-, t. which number the
state # Illinois l. eutiiled, under tie cen
sus taken 10y the authority vG the govern
meut 81 the United States, 1, the wear one
thousand eight hundred and sixtv, the f,l
lowing districts sha.I be aud are hereby
established, to be styled and known as d..
trIcts numbered fret, secord, third, fourth,
filth, sixth, seventh, eight, ninth, tenth.
eleventh, twelfth aud thirteenth.
The first disirIct shall be composed Of
the counties oi Lake, McIIeury, Boone
Winnebagn, Kane and Dekaib.
3. The second district shall be compos- 4
of the Counties of 10 DaVieSs. Stephenson.
Carol, Oge, Lee and Whiteside
!. The third district shall he cumpossd
Of the counties ST Rock Island, Mercer.
Henderson, Warren, Haneock and Adams.
The fourth district shall be CONFUSED
T Of the counties of Henry. Knox. Fulton.
McDUnouEh, Mason, Schuyler aud Cass.
4 q. The fifth district shall be composed Of
the counties ui Bureau; Putnam. Marshall
/ Stark, Peoria, WGOdford and Tazewel.
/ .. The sixth district shall be composed
/ Of the counties % LaSalle Kendall. Grun
/ dy, DuPage, Will. and the following towns
/ in the county OF Cook. viz Lamont. Pnlus,
! Oriand. R'sii, Bi'Um. ThJTnt8n, Bremen,
Lyons. Provlso. Cicero. Lake aud w urth.
:. The seventh district shall be compos
ed of the following towns ia the county of
/ Cook, viz: South Chicago, West Chicago.
North Chicago, Lake View, Evanston. New
Trier, Mortified. Wheeling, Palatine. Bar
ringtUn. Hanover, Schaumherg. Elk Grove.
Maine, Niles, Leyden and jefferson.
y. The eight district shall be composed
OF the counties Of Kankakee, Iroauois.
Ford, Champaign, Nermiliinn. Douglas,
Coles, Edgar, Cumberland and Clark.
10 The ninth district shall be comIosed
I of the counties of Menard, Livingston.
Mclean, Dewitt, Logan, Sangamon.
Christian, Macon, Moultrie and Plat.
III. The tenth district shall be composed
of the COUNTIES Of Macuupin, Jersey. Greene.
Calhoun, Morgan, Scott, Pike and
/ Brown.
II Tie eleventh distr let shull be com
posed OF the counties of Washin gton, Perry.
Montgomery, Bond, Clinton, Madison, ST.
Clair and Monroe.
ID The twelfth district shall! be com
posed of the counties uf Wata>h. Edwards
/ Wayne, Shelby, Fayeite, jefferson. Marion
Lawrence. Richlaud, Clay, Carwford, Jas.
I per and bingham.
ii. The thirteenth district shall be COM
I posed of the counties Of Alexander. Pulas
kI. Massac, Union, Jacks. n. P5pe Hardin,
Gailatin, Saline, William. on. johnson.
Franklin, Hamilton, White and Randolph.
! ID Que representative to congress of
I the United States shall be elected in each
/ of the districts before enumerated on the
I Tuesday after the first Monday of Nnyem-
I Der, IN the year of oGr l. ,rd. one thousand
eight hundred and sixiy two. and one in
each OF said districts every two years there.
alter, Such elections shall be held and
return thereof made and canvassed as ia
now provided by law in such cases.
The Union. over which the stars and
stripes have foated in honor for better
] than seventy years. and which has brought
reno~n and prosperity under its shield. i,
now pitted in death struggle with a pal
try platform And, wonderful and humil
iatine that Union is. to day, weaker
apparently. than the Chicago Platform
and promises, with all its glory ard 1t.
strength, to 90 dawn iato eternal darkness,
before the rush light of a party Dogma