designate, and fix on some other eligible place as above mentioned. SEC. 3. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that the commissioners aforesaid shall receive a compensation of two dollars each, for every day that they may necessarily be employed in fixing the aforesaid seat of justice, to be paid out of the county levy, by an order of the county court, and as soon as the county seat shall be designated and established as aforesaid; the county court of Johnson county shall cause the lots to be surveyed and sold in such manner as they may direct, and when the amountof purchase money shall be paid by any purchaser or purchasers, the judges either in or out of court, shall execute to them a deed or deeds of conveyance; and the said county courts shall, as soon as may be, cause suitable buildings to be provided for the accommodation of the several courts, which may be directed to be holden in said county, and when the same shall be provided, the courts for such county shall be holden thereat; but until the same shall be provided, the courts shall be held at the present county seat. SEC. 4. Be it further enacted, That the commissioners aforesaid, may meet and adjourn from time to time, until they shall have completed their bussiness, as herein provided, after the day fixed on for their first meeting, by the first section of this act, but unless a majority of them shall concur and sign the return to the county court, the same shall not be received and entered of record: Provided however, that the said commissioners shall not delay making their report longer than six months after their first meeting. This act to take effect from and after the passage thereof. SAMUEL OMELVANY, Speaker of the House of Representatives, pro tempore. PIERRE MENARD, President of the Legislative Council. APPROVED December 26, 1816. NINIAN EDWARDS. AN ACT for the relief of Augustin Penceneau and Adalaide his wife. WHEREAS Jean F. Perry died possessed of a certain mill on the creek called Prairie du Pont, in the county of St. Clair, and whereas the said mill has descended by the death of the said Perry to his wife, and surviving relict Adalaide, who has since intermarried with the aforesaid Augustin Penceneau, and whereas it is considered doubtful whether said mill is established according to law, and attempts are now making to have the same demolished, and whereas this Legislature is satisfied of the injustice of such attempts and of the anxiety of a large portion of the inhabitants adjacent to the said mill for its remaining in full and undisturbed operation: B Eit therefore enacted by the Legislative Council and House of Representatives of Illinois territory, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, that the mill heretofore established and erected on the Prairie du Pont creek, in the county of St. Clair, and which is now in the possession of Augustin Penceneau and Adalaide his wife, be, and the same is hereby declared to be legally established, and shall require no order of any court or other tribunal, and that this act shall be a bar to any proceedings now depending, or which may hereafter be commenced; the object of which shall be either a partial or entire demolition of said mill. SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That the said mill shall be under the same regulations and restrictions as other mills are, that are duly established by order of any court having power to establish the same: Provided however, that nothing in this act contained shall be so construed as to authorise the said Penceneau to raise the dam of said mill any higher than it now is, or has here This act to take effect from and after the tofore been. passage thereof. SETH GARD, Speaker of the House of Representatives, pro tempore. PIERRE MENARD, President of the Legislative Council. APPROVED December 26, 1816. NINIAN EDWARDS, AN ACT to prevent attornies at law residing in the state of Indiana from practicing in the courts in this territory. WHEREAS by a law now in force in the state of Indiana, persons who do not reside therein (although qualified according to the laws of their own state or territory) are not permitted to practice in the courts of the said state, and whereas that restriction is illiberal, unjust and contrary to those principles of liberality and reciprocity by which each and every state or territory should be governed: Therefore, B E it enacted by the Legislative Council and House of Representatives of the Illinois territory, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, that no person residing in the state of Indiana, shall hereafter be permitted to practice as counsellor or attorney at law in any of the courts of this territory. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That if any person residing in the state of Indiana who has heretofore obtained license, or has been admitted to practice law in any of the courts of this territory, shall attempt hereafter to practice in any of the said courts either by marking his name to any suit on the docket of any such court, filing his warrant of attorney therein, or in any way attempting to avail himself of the privileges of attorney of any such court, he shall be subject to a fine of two hundred Dollars, to be recovered by any person on motion in the B court in which such an attempt to practice shall have been made; and the said court shall have power on motion as aforesaid, to enter judgment for the said fine, one half to the use of the territory and the other to the use of the person sueing for the same: Provided however, that if any practicing attorney residing in the said state, has been retained as council in any case now pending in any of the courts of this territory, he shall be permitted to appear in any such case, and attend it to its final termination. SEC. 3. And be in further enacted, That if any court in this territory shall knowingly suffer or permit any person residing in the said state of Indiana, to practice as counsellor or attorney at law, in any of the courts in this territory, such court whether it be composed of one or more judges, shall be liable to pay five hundred Dollars, which may be recovered by action of debt, qui tam, in any. court of this territory having competent jurisdiction. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after the first day of March next, and shall continue in force until the laws of the state of Indiana herein before referred to shall be repealed, and no longer. GEO. FISHER, Speaker of the House of Representatives. PIERRE MENARD. President of the Legislative Council. APPROVED, December 21, 1816. NINIAN EDWARDS. AN ACT to alter a part of the lines between the coun B ties of Gallatin and Pope. E it enacted by the Legislative Council and House of Representatives of the Illinois territory, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the line dividing the counties of Gallatin and Pope, as established by the act passed at the last session of the general assembly, entitled an act to erect a new county out of the counties of Gallatin and Johnson, be, and the same is hereby altered as follows, to wit: Beginning at the Rock and Cave on the Ohio river; thence a straight line to the corner of townships number ten and eleven south, and of ranges number seven and eight, east of the third principal meridian; thence west along the line between townships number ten and eleven south twenty-four miles; and thence with the lines established by the said recited act, to the Ohio river, and up the same to the beginning; and that all the tract of country included in the lines of Pope county by this act, shall be attached to and form a part of Pope county. of. This act to be in force from and after the passage there GEO. FISHER, Speaker of the House of Representatives. PIERRE MENARD, President of the Legislative Council. APPROVED, December 26, 1816. NINIAN EDWARDS. AN ACT to incorporate the President, Directors and Company of the Bank of Illinois. B E it enacted by the Legislative Council and House of Representatives of the Illinois territory, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That a Bank shall be established at Shawnoetown, the capital stock whereof shall not exceed three hundred thousand dollars, to be divided into shares of one hundred dollars each, one third thereof to remain open to be subscribed by the Legislature of this territory, or state, when a state government shall be formed, which territory or state shall be entitled to such part of the dividend of the said corporation in proportion to the amount actually subscribed by such territory or state, which one third shall be divided into shares of one hundred dollars each, in the same manner as the individual stock is divided, and that subscriptions for constituting the said stock shall on the first |