Records, 1819-1837.

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Records, 1819-1837.

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Ledger has handwritten account of the first organizational meetings with the names of those taking offices in the court and the procedures for district, commissioner, special, judicial and district elections being written out. The court proceedings are indexed in the first section of the book and involve fines, estrays and pounds, granting of licenses for peddling, selling merchandise and keeping a tavern, nonresidents, county roads, school lands, wolf scalps and others.

1 v. ; 33 cm.

Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library

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Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library

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Jefferson County (Ill.). County Commissioners Court.

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Office newly formed by the state legislature, with Zadock Casey, Fleming Greenwood and Joseph Jordan elected, on April 20, 1819, as the first County Commissioners for Jefferson County the first Commissioners Court met at the house of William Casey on June 7, 1819, where they first oversaw appointments and elections for offices in the court. From the description of Records, 1819-1837. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 49393887 ...

Casey, Zadock.

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Jordan, Joseph

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Greenwood, Fleming.

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