County of Richland v. County of Lawrence
Illinois Supreme Court
This was a hill filed in the Lawrence Circuit Court, by Eichland County, for the purpose of obtaining from the former for the benefit of the latter County, a portion of the fund appropriated by the legislature in 1837 for the benefit of such Counties as had not any railroad or canal passing through them.
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This was a hill filed in the Lawrence Circuit Court, by Eichland County, for the purpose of obtaining from the former for the benefit of the latter County, a portion of the fund appropriated by the legislature in 1837 for the benefit of such Counties as had not any railroad or canal passing through them. By virtue of this law, Lawrence County received the sum of $11,125 00; subsequently to this appropriation, Eichland County was created out of the County of Lawrence and the County of Clay. After the County of Eichland was created, the legislature passed a law, directing that Lawrence County…
1Opinion of the CourtTrumbull, J.
The County of Richland filed a bill in chancery against the County of Lawrence, aBeging that the latter was one of those counties through which no railroad or canal was provided .to be mad§, by the act to establish and maintain a Gen-
eral System of Internal Improvements, approved Eeb’y 27,1837; that the 15th division of sec. 18 of said act declared, “There shall be appropriated the sum of two hundred thousand dollars of the first moneys that shall be obtained under the provisions of this act, to be drawn by the several counties in a ratable proportion to the census last made, through which no…
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