PASSED BY

THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL,

AND

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,

OF

ILLINOIS TERRITORY,

AT

THEIR FIFTH SESSION,

HELD AT

Kaskaskia–1816--'17.

KASKASKIA, I. T.

PRINTED BY COOK & BLACKWELL,

Printers to the Territory.

1817.

Reprinted by PHILLIPS BROS., State Printers, 1898.

LAWS

OF

ILLINOIS TERRITORY,

ENACTED IN 1816—’17.

AN ACT to establish the name of the Town now called

“ Carthage,', in the county of Monroe, Illinois Terri

tory. DE 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 town now called “Carthage,” in the county cř Monroe and Illinois territory, shall hereafter be known by the name of Harrisonville; and in all public writings and documents, whenever the name of said town shall be necessary to be mentioned in said county of Monroe, the name of Harrisonville shall be used.

This act to take effect from and after the passage thereof.

GEO. FISHER, Speaker of the House of Representatives.

PIERRE MENARD,

President of the Legislative Council. APPROVED-December 21, 1816.

NINIAN EDWARDS.