seals, and return the same to the next county court, in the county aforesaid; and as a compensation for their services, they shall each be allowed two dollars for every day they may be necessarily employed in fixing the aforesaid seat of justice, to be paid out of the county levy; which said court shall cause an entry thereof to be made on their records.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the said county of Crawford is hereby allowed one representative in the house of representatives of this territory, who shall be elected agreeably to law, and be entitled to all the immunities, powers and privileges prescribed by law to members of the house of representatives. An election

is hereby directed to be held at the house of said E. N. Cullom, in the said county, on the first monday in March next, and continue open three days, and to be conducted in all other respects by the persons and in the manner prescribed by law: At which said election, the persons entitled to vote may elect a representative to the house of representatives, who shall continue in office until the tenth day of October, eighteen hundred and eighteen, and shall during his continuance in office, be bound to perform the duties, and be entitled to the same privileges and immunities that are prescribed by law to a member of the house of representatives.

SEC. 3. Be it further enacted, That the citizens of said county entitled to vote, may at any election for a member of the legislative council to represent said district, proceed to vote for such member; and it shall moreover be the duty of the sheriff of the said county of Crawford, within ten days after the close of said election, to attend at the court house of the county of White, with a statement of the votes given in the said county of Crawford, and to compare the polls of the respective counties; and it shall be the duty of the sheriffs of Gallatin, White and Edwards counties to attend at such time and place with a statement of the votes of Gallatin, White and Edwards counties, and upon counting the votes of the respective counties, it shall be the duty of

the said sheriffs of Gallatin, White, Edwards and Crawford counties, to make out and deliver to the person duly elected a certificate thereof. If the said sheriffs or either of them, shall refuse or fail to perform the duty required of them by this section, such delinquent shall forfeit and pay the sum of two hundred dollars, to be recovered by action of debt or indictment, one half to the territory, and the other half to any person sueing for the same.

SEC. 4. Be it further enacted. That the citizens of the county Crawford are hereby declared to be entitled in all respects to the same rights and privileges in the election of a delegate to congress, as well as a member to the house of representatives of the territory, that are allowed by law to the other counties of the territory; and all elections are to be conducted at the same time, and in the same manner, except as is excepted by this law, as is provided for other counties. This act shall commence

and be in force from after the passage thereof.

Speaker of the House of Representatives, pro tempore.

SETH GARD,

PIERRE MENARD,

President of the Legislative Council.

APPROVED, December 31, 1816.

NINIAN EDWARDS.

AN ACT supplemental to an act entitled "An act for the relief of persons imprisoned for Debt.”

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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 whenever any person is in actual confinement on final process in any civil action where the cause of imprisonment is the failure to pay the amount of any judgment rendered against him, such person, shall have a right to give actual notice to all his creditors by writing, if they reside in the territory, or by advertising in any newspaper printed in the territory, if they or any of them reside out of the

territory, which last mentioned notice shall be alone sufficient in all cases, that he will on some special day, not less than twenty days after giving such notice, apply either to the county court at its next term, or to some judge thereof in vacation, to take the benefit of the "act concerning insolvent debtors."

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That such person so confined as aforesaid, shall have the right of giving notice to any judge of the county court to attend at the court house on any day that such person may name to hear what may be urged in behalf of his liberation, and it shall be the duty of such judge to attend on such day named; and it shall be the duty of such court or judge in vacation to proceed to hear and determine on the case before them, according to the directtons of the said recited act; and it shall be the duty of the person applying, to proceed previous to his liberation, in all respects as is prescribed by the law to which this is a supplement, except so far as is altered by this act; and any person thus liberated, shall stand in the same situation as if he had been released by legal sentence under the provisions of the said act to which this is a supplement.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the clerk of said court, to attend at the court house on the day so appointed, and make a record of the proceedings as though the same were a special session of the said court, who shall be entitled to receive therefor, one dollar and fifty cents; and the said judge shall receive the sum of two dollars therefor out of the county treasury of their county; and it shall be the duty of the jailor upon receiving notice from said judge, to bring such prisoner before him, and either recommit or discharge him as the judge may direct. This act to take effect from and after its passage. SETH GARD,

Speaker of the House of Representatives, pro tempore.

PIERRE MENARD.

President of the Legislative Council.

APPROVED, January 1, 1817.

NINIAN EDWARDS.

AN ACT to establish Inspections Within the Territory.

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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 public ware houses may be kept at the several places which may be pointed out by the judges of the county courts in each county for an inspection of beef, pork, hemp, flour, and tobacco.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That there shall be kept at the several ware houses that may be established, a good and sufficient pair of scales, sufficient to weigh eighteen hundred weight at least, and a set of small weights, such as ought to be, according to the standard weight of the county, and that the proprietors of each ware house provide the same.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That all beef, tobacco, hemp and flour brought to any of the public ware houses, shall be viewed, inspected and examined, by two persons thereunto appointed by the different county courts for each county, and it shall be the duty of the courts aforesaid to appoint such inspectors, when in their opinion it may be thought necessary, and it shall be the duty of the aforesaid county courts to nominate three fit persons for inspectors at each of their several ware houses within their respective counties, the two first in the nomination shall be considered as the acting inspectors for the ensuing year, and in case of sickness or death or inability in either of the two first inspectors, the third shall act, and on the disagreement of the said inspectors, the third shall be called in to decide on such articles subject to inspection; and the said judges shall have power on complaint. in writing being lodged in the office of the clerk of the county, at their first term after such notice to them given to summon the inspector or inspectors before them, and the court shall have power to continue or dismiss from office him or them, as the case may be, and as the court shall judge just; and such court shall fill all vacancies

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which may happen at any time during the remainder of the year; and every such inspector so appointed by virtue of this act before he enters into the execution of his office, shall give bond with approved security in the penal sum two hundred dollars, payable to the governor or his successors in office, conditioned for the true and faithful performance of his duty according to the conditions. of this act. which said sum shall be recovered by action of debt before the circuit court. for any wilful or flagrant breach of duty; which bond shall be given or entered into before the county court and lodged in the clerk's of fice of the county.

SEC. 4. And be it further enacted. That all inspectors to be appointed by this act, shall attend at the different ware houses to which they are appointed, on the application of any person who wishes to have his beef, pork. flour or tobacco to be inspected. Sunday excepted, and every inspector neglecting to attend as aforesaid, shall forfeit and pay to the party aggrieved. five dollars to be recovered before any justice of the peace in the proper county. And the said inspectors shall inspect every article that comes within the perview of this act, in such a manner that may be fully satisfied, that each article so inspected shall completely answer in quality to the mark or brand by them made, which shall be marked on the barrel or hogshead, if flour, the letters S. F. for superfine, and the letter F. for fine, with the gross weight and nett weight marked in figures on the said barrel, if tobacco or pork or beef, the weight in gross and nett marked on the head of said hogshead or barrel.

SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That the rates of inspection and storage of the several articles so inspected shall be fixed by the several county courts at their first or second courts in every year.

SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That each hogshead of tobacco shall weigh not less than nine hundredand fifty weight, or exceed eighteen hundred nett, and the barrel of flour shall weigh one hundred and ninetysix pounds nett weight, and each barrel of pork and beef