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Timestamp: 2020-06-02 09:03:20
Document Index: 470747173

Matched Legal Cases: ['§ 17', '§ 19', '§ 20', '§ 21', '§ 22', '§ 23', '§ 24', '§ 25', '§ 17', '§ 19', '§ 20', '§ 21', '§ 22', '§ 23', '§ 24', '§ 25']

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persons, residents of said county, as justices of the county court, and one person, a resident of said county, as sheriff thereof. When so appointed and
commissioned, they shall have full power arid authority to act as such in their
respective offices, under the existing laws, until their successors are duly elected, commissioned, and qualified.
§ 17. All the territory in the foil owing boundary, beginning at the south-east
corner of Taney county; thence east with the State line to the western boundary of Ripley county; thence north'with said county line to the township line
dividing townships twenty-six and twenty-seven; thence west with said township line to the range line dividing ranges seventeen and eighteen; thence south
with said,range line to the beginning, shall be attached to the county of Taney for all civil and military purposes, until otherwise provided by law.
§ IS. All that portion of territory heretofore attached to the county of Chariton, in the following boundary: beginning at the south-east corner of township
fifty-seven, range eighteen west; thence west with said township line to the
range line dividing ranges twenty-one and twenty-two; thence north with said
range line to the township line dividing townships sixty and sixty-one; thence
east with said township line to the range line dividing ranges seventeen and
eighteen; thence south with said range line to the beginning; is hereby declared to be a separate and distinct county, to be called and known by the
name of Linn county, in honor of the honorable Lewis F. Linn; and all the
rights and privileges guaranteed by law, to separate and distinct counties, are
hereby extended to the county of Linn.
§ 19. John Riley, Ransom Price, and Levi Blankenship, of the county of
Chariton, are appointed commissioners to select the seat of justice for said
county. The said commissioners are hereby vested with all the powers granted to commissioners by an act, entitled "an act to provide for organizing counties hereafter established," approved, December the ninth, eighteen hundred
and thirty-six.
§ 20. The courts to be holden for said county, shall be held at the house
of Silas Fore, until the county court shall fix on a temporary seat of justice
§ 21. The Governor is hereby authorized and required to appoint and
commission three persons, resident in said county, as justices of the county
court, and one person, resident in said county, as sheriff of said county. When
so commissioned, they shall have full power and authority to act as such in
their respective offices, under the existing laws, until their successors are elected, commissioned and qualified.
§ 22. All that portion of territory lying north of the county of Linn, shall
be attached to said county, for all civil and military purposes, until otherwise
§ 23. The circuit and county courts of said counties, or the judges thereof
in vacation, shall have power to appoint their clerks, who shall hold their offices until the general election in eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, and until
§ 24. The commissioners to locate the respective county seats aforesaid,
shall meet on the first Monday in May next, at the places of holding courts
for the counties respectively, in which said county seats are to be located for
the purpose of entering on the discharge of their duties.
§ 25. Four terms of the county courts shall be held in each of the counties
aforesaid, on the first Mondays in February, May, August and November, and
the courts may alter the times of holding their stated terms,giving notice there-
pf in such manner as to them shall seem expedient.
This act to take effect and be in force from and after its passage. '
Approved, Jan. 6, 1837,
Identifier LAWS_9th_1836-1838_0052.tif
Transcript 52 COUNTIES. persons, residents of said county, as justices of the county court, and one person, a resident of said county, as sheriff thereof. When so appointed and commissioned, they shall have full power arid authority to act as such in their respective offices, under the existing laws, until their successors are duly elected, commissioned, and qualified. § 17. All the territory in the foil owing boundary, beginning at the south-east corner of Taney county; thence east with the State line to the western boundary of Ripley county; thence north'with said county line to the township line dividing townships twenty-six and twenty-seven; thence west with said township line to the range line dividing ranges seventeen and eighteen; thence south with said,range line to the beginning, shall be attached to the county of Taney for all civil and military purposes, until otherwise provided by law. § IS. All that portion of territory heretofore attached to the county of Chariton, in the following boundary: beginning at the south-east corner of township fifty-seven, range eighteen west; thence west with said township line to the range line dividing ranges twenty-one and twenty-two; thence north with said range line to the township line dividing townships sixty and sixty-one; thence east with said township line to the range line dividing ranges seventeen and eighteen; thence south with said range line to the beginning; is hereby declared to be a separate and distinct county, to be called and known by the name of Linn county, in honor of the honorable Lewis F. Linn; and all the rights and privileges guaranteed by law, to separate and distinct counties, are hereby extended to the county of Linn. § 19. John Riley, Ransom Price, and Levi Blankenship, of the county of Chariton, are appointed commissioners to select the seat of justice for said county. The said commissioners are hereby vested with all the powers granted to commissioners by an act, entitled "an act to provide for organizing counties hereafter established," approved, December the ninth, eighteen hundred and thirty-six. § 20. The courts to be holden for said county, shall be held at the house of Silas Fore, until the county court shall fix on a temporary seat of justice for said county. § 21. The Governor is hereby authorized and required to appoint and commission three persons, resident in said county, as justices of the county court, and one person, resident in said county, as sheriff of said county. When so commissioned, they shall have full power and authority to act as such in their respective offices, under the existing laws, until their successors are elected, commissioned and qualified. § 22. All that portion of territory lying north of the county of Linn, shall be attached to said county, for all civil and military purposes, until otherwise provided for by law. § 23. The circuit and county courts of said counties, or the judges thereof in vacation, shall have power to appoint their clerks, who shall hold their offices until the general election in eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, and until their successors are elected and qualified. § 24. The commissioners to locate the respective county seats aforesaid, shall meet on the first Monday in May next, at the places of holding courts for the counties respectively, in which said county seats are to be located for the purpose of entering on the discharge of their duties. § 25. Four terms of the county courts shall be held in each of the counties aforesaid, on the first Mondays in February, May, August and November, and the courts may alter the times of holding their stated terms,giving notice there- pf in such manner as to them shall seem expedient. This act to take effect and be in force from and after its passage. ' Approved, Jan. 6, 1837,