Thomas v. County of Morgan

The Illinois River Railroad company, intended to run from Rekin, in Tazewell county, to Jacksonville, in Morgan county, was chartered by an act of the legislature, passed February 11," 1853, and the charter was subsequently amended by an act of the 1st of March, 1854. Hnder an authority derived from these acts, the County Court of Morgan county, on the 1st of September, 1856, made an order submitting to a vote of the people of the county, the question of subscribing to $50,000 of the stock, which resulted in a legal majority for the subscription ; and, at the December Term, 1856, of the…