Bureau County, Illinois - Chapter with an unread heading (no. 21 of those read), 1885

~T"TT~E give in this chapter the references to V V the statute laws of the State passed by the Legislature in reference to Bureau County, that is, those laws that are not found in any of the Revised Statutes. The list will be found very full upon examination, and the number there is of these laws will make it an easy matter for those interested in them, or who may wish to consult them, to look over the list and turn to the book page, in which may be found each particular act in full. Many of the laws are purely private and local and are now obsolete, as well as unknown to the young members of the bar. We do not deem any of them of sufficient importance to reprint them here, and yet in a historical point of view they are important and many of them may figure prominently in the courts in the adjudication of the property interests of individuals. We give the date and page of each act, that is, the day of the month and year it became a law, and the volume of the public or private laws in which it is printed. This is the briefest and most pointed way we could tell the history of the county in this respect, as the headings in each act are an index to the act itself.

Erection of public buildings - law of March 2, 1839, page 228; Greenfield changed toLamoille, law February 3, 1840, 107; plat of Fairmont vacated, id., 108; Commissioners to sell school lands in Town 14, Range 8, law of February 27, 1841, 258; Lamoille Agricultural and Mechanical Association, law of March 6, 1843, 16; county to borrow $5,000 to complete court house, id., 110; county confirmed in certain ferry privileges, id., 144; county to extend Hugh Freny's case of Hennepin Ferry for ten years, private law, February 17, 1847, 44; records in Putnam "County to be transcribed, certificate and effect, law, February 10, 1849, 109; Benjamin Newell and heirs to construct a canal from the Illinois River to Lake De Pue, id. , February 12, 133; time to build extended to February, 1856, law, February 15, 1831, 125; grant renewed, to complete in five years, private law, February 7, 273; hogs not to run at large, id., January 1Q, 185; Clairon Cemetery Association chartered, private law, February 17, 1851, 291; town of Gold created, law, February 12, 1853, 202; towns to support their own paupers; vote thereon, id., February 10, 261 ; school tax in District No. 1, town of Hall, legalized, law, February 6, 1855, 110; Livingston town plat vacated, private law, February 7, 1857, 271; sale of swamp lands confirmed, id., February 18,

1206; for transcribing the old records of sales and redemption of land from 1823 to 1854, id., February 18, 1377; jurisdiction of County Court extended, law, February 24, 1859, 96; Dover Academy chartered, private law, February 24, 1859, 361; Princeton & Bureau Valley Railroad chartered, id., February 18, 491; Preacher's Aid Society of Northern Illinois District, private law, February 18, 1861, 52; Supervisor's location of a road from Arlington to the east county line legalized, id., February 22, 544; Sheffield chartered, id., February 22, 718; foregoing amended, 3 private law, February 9, 1867, 595; loan in aid of volunteers, legalized, law, February 12, 1863, 25; plat of Providence partly vacated, private law, June 13, 1863, 273; county interest-bearing bonds issued in payment of bounties legalized, 1 private law, February 6, 1865, 116; organization of First Congregational Church at Neponset legalized, id., February 16, 236; Benjamin Newell to construct a canal from Negro Creek to Lake De Pue, id. , February 16, 556; Lovejoy Monument Association chartered, erect at Oakland Cemetery or village of Princeton, 2 private law, February 15, 1865, 91; Charles L. Kelsey, surviving Trustee, to re-convey to Frances D. Shugart property held in trust for her, id., February 16, 249; Road from Hennepin to mouth of Eock River re-located in part, id., February 15, 267; Trenton changed to Sherman, id., February 16, 584; vacates a certain street in Berlin, land sold for school purposes, id., February 16, 662; vacates plat of Kinnowood, id., 664; towns of Fairfield, Mineral and Concord to bridge Green River at Gold, 1 private law, February 28, 1867, 180; Bureau County Dairy and Cheese Company chartered, id., March 5, 906; Bureau County Concrete Company chartered, 2 private law, March 5, 1867, 304; Wyanet and Pond

Creek Railway and Carrying Company chartered, id., February 20, 696; road from Mendota to Arlington located, id., February 23, 822; proceedings of School Trustees of Town 16, Range 9, legalized, 3 private law, January 29, 1867, 15; Burbonais changed to Lovejoy, id. , 247 ; Neponset corporate powers extended, id., February 25, 455; Lamoille chartered, id., February 25, 485; Sherman changed to De Pue, id., February 18, 607; annexing for school purposes, Sections 4 and 5, Town 17, Range 6, to Town 18, Range 6, id., March 7, 631; Winona changed to Maiden, law, March 26, 1869, 297; George S. Emerson, Treasurer Town 16, Range 7, released from payment of $907.99, of which he was robbed, id., March 27, 335.

Princeton. - Time of levying tax extended, law, February 25, 1841, page 84; town chartered, private law, February 8, 1849, 120; boundary fixed, construction of plank road to railroad depot, private law, February 12, 1853, 607; further respecting plank road to depot, limits extended, private law, February 28, 1854, 133; survey of Elston's, Wiswall's and Flint's additions corrected, part of North Street vacated, private law, February 15, 1855, 197; vacates alleys in Elston's addition, private law, February 16, 1857, 891; corporate powers generally extended, id. February 18, 1815; foregoing amended, opening streets and public ground, private law, February 24, 1859, 661; charter amended, power to license, private law, February 22, 1861, 715; powers further extended, 2 private law, February 16, 1865, 560. And again, 3 private law, February 18, 1867,610; Princeton Seminary chartered, in Town 16, Range 9, private law, February 21, 1837, 61; part of tax for 1858 in District 1, remitted, law, January 15, 1859, 177; Young Men's Association chartered, 2 private law, February 16, 1865, 19; Princeton

Loan and Trust Company chartered: Id., 24; Bureau County Fire Insurance Company chartered, 2 private law, March 7, 1867, 112; Princeton High School District chartered. 3 private law, February 5, 1867, 16.

Tiskilwa. - Names of Indiantown and Windsor changed to Tiskilwa, law, Febru- , ary 3, 1840, 107; town incorporated, private law, 1855, 154; chartered again, private law, 1857, 863; foregoing amended; 3 private law, 1867, 588; leases executed to George Cattell and Calvin Stephens by Town Trustees confirmed, private law, 1861, 723; Liberty Square vacated, id., 724; People's Coal Company chartered, 2 private law, 1867, 390.