OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS. AN ACT to amend an act entitled "an act provid- AFPROVED, November 29, 1824. Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the people of the state of Illinois represented in the General Assembly, That it shall be the duty of the Governor, or person ad- Districts. ministering the government for the time being, to divide the state into electoral districts, on the first Monday in June quadriennially, instead of the arct Monday in September, as provided by the act to which this is an amendment. It shall be the duty of the clerks of the several county commissioners' Clerk's duty. courts in this state to send by express within fifteen days next after the day of holding an election in this state, for electors of President and Vice President of the United States, to the Secretary of State, at the seat of government, an abstract of the election returns of said election. It shall be the duty of the secretary of state, auditor and treasurer, or any two of them, in the presence of the governor, or person administering the government, immediately when said returns shall have been so made,to proceed to open and canvas said election returns, and to ascertain and declare the person having the highest number of legal votes, in each of the districts, elected, but should any two or more persons be returned from the same district with an equal and the highest vote, then the said secretary, auditor and treasurer, or any two of them, shall decide by lot, in the presence of the governor as aforesaid, which of the persons so equal and high Secretary, Auditor est, shall be the elected candidate. It shall be Epresses allowed the duty of the governor, or person administering ten per cent. per the goverument, to cause to be paid out of the mile. : turns canvassed. age, at the rate of ten cents per mile, for travelling Last election re- to the seat of government,on that service. It shall be the duty of the secretary of state, auditor, and treasurer, or any two of them, in the presence of the governor,or person administering the government,immediately after the election returns of the last election of electors of president and vice president of the United States shall have been made, to open and canvas the same, in all things, as before provided. So much of the act to which this is an amendment, as comes within the perview of this act, be, and the same is hereby, repealed. This act to be in force from and after its passage. AN ACT for the Relief of Robert Hamilton. Sec: 1. Be it enacted by the people of the state of Illinois represented in the General Assembly, That the county commissioners of the county of Sangamon, be authorized and required to pay to Robert Hamilton, or his legal representative, the sum of eighty dollars and seventy-five cents, with interest from the time such payment should have been made, deducting therefrom such sum as has already been paid to the said Robert Hamilton, for and on account of building the jail of said county: and the said commissioners are further authorized to allow and pay to the said Hamilton such damages as they may deem just and proper. AN ACT for the Relief of John Kain. Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the people of the state of Illinois represented in the General Assembly, That the president and directors of the state bank of Illinois be authorized and required to pay to John Kain the sum of four hundred and forty-five dollars and fifty cents, the amount of a judgment re |