The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1870-05-26
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COUNTIES.

COUNTIES.
SECTION No new county shall be form
ed or estsoIshed BY the Geurrsi Assembly
which will reduce the county or countries, or
either Of them, from which ii shall be taken.
TO less contents than four hundred square
miles nor shall any county be formed OF
less contents; nor shall any line thereof pass
within less than ten miles of any county seal
of the county or counties proposed 20 be di-
yided.
SEC. >. No county shall be divided. or
have any part stricken therefro without
submitting the question 10 a vote of the
people of the county, nor unless q majority
IF all the legal voters Of the county voting
on the question, shall vote for the same.
SEC. ;. There shall be no territory sirIck
en- from snv comfy unless a msjoriIy Of the
voters living in such territory shall petition
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 ii is proposed TO be added. But the
portion stricken off and added to another
county, formed in whole or in part into
new county. shall be holden for. aud obliged
to pay its proportion of the Indebtedness
Of the county from which it has been taken.
COUNTY SEATS.
SEC. l. No county seat shall be removed
until Il e point to which it Ia pro osed to be
removed shall be fixed in pursuance of law,
aud a ma lority of the voters of the county,
10 be nsceriained in such manner as shall be
provided by general law, shall have voted in
favor of its removal to such point and no
person shall vote on such question who has
not resided 10 the county six months
and IN the election precinct ninety DAYS
next preceding such elections. The ques
ion of the removal Ct a county seat shall
not be oftener submitted than once in ten
years, TO vote Of the people.
COUNTY GOVERNMENT.
SEC. 5. The General Assembly shall
provide, by general law. for township organ
'zatiou, under which any county may organ
lie Whenever a msjority of the legal voters
of such county, Young at any general cleo
lion sba 80 determine, aud ~hene,er any
county shall adupt township organization, so
much OF this CONSTITUTION rs provides Tor The
management of the fiscal concerns Of the
SAID county by the board OF county commis
siouers may be dispensed With, aud the
affairs of said count. may be transacted Ia
such mauner as the General Assembly may
provide. And III any county that shall hav,
~~S k'N0 'o"1ehip auc uuea
ton continuing the same may be submitted
10 vote OF the electors of such county at a
general election, in the manner that low i.
or may be provided BY law aud If a major
lty OF all the votes cast upon that question
shall be against township organizatioI, then
such organization sbsll cease In said county:
and all laws in force in rela ton to counties
not having township organization, shall
immediately take effect and be in force in
such county No Two townships shall have
the same name, and the day of holding ,h,
annual township meeting shall be uniform,
throughout the state
| SEC. o. AT the first election of county
Judges under this constitution. there shall
he elected in each of the counties in this
state, not under township organization.
three officers, who shall be styled "Tb.
t board OF county commissioner who shall
held sessions for the transaction of county
business as shall be provided by law. One
OF said commissioners shall hold his Office
Tor one year. one for two years, and one for
three years. TO be determined bv lot; and
every year thereafter one such officer shall
be elected in each of said counties for the
term Of three years
| SEC. 7. The county affairs of Cook
county shall be managed by board OF
commissioners of fifteen persons, ten OF
.hom shall be elected from the city OF
Chicago, apd eve from towns oussids OF ssid