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ILLINOIS. 



for a Week alone. He was promoted to major- Fourth Illinois District, and was re-elected to 

 general for meritorious conduct at the battle the Forty-fourth Congress. In 1881 he was 



of Shiloh, and filled various important mili- 

 tary positions in the West and South through- 

 out the war. In 1869 he was made Minister 

 to Colombia, in which position he was retained 

 until 1873, when he was elected, as a Republi- 



appointed Minister to Peru, in place of J. P. 

 Christiancy. In this position he came promi- 

 nently before the public for a time in connec- 

 tion with the Peruvian and Chilian policy of 

 Mr. Elaine. He was a brother of Mr. W. H. 



can, to the Forty-third Congress from the Hurlbut, of the New York " World. 



ILLINOIS. STATE GOVERNMENT. The fol- 

 lowing were the State officers during the year: 

 Governor, Shelby M. Cullom, Republican ; Lieu- 

 tenant-Governor, John M. Hamilton ; Secretary 

 of State, Henry D. Dement ; Treasurer, Edward 

 Rutz ; Auditor, Charles P. Swigert ; Attorney- 

 General, James McCartney ; Adjutant-General, 

 J. H. Elliott ; Superintendent of Public Instruc- 

 tion, James P. Slade ; Secretary of Board of 

 Agriculture, Samuel D. Fisher ; Railroad Com- 

 missioners, William H. Smith, George M. Bogue, 

 and William H. Robinson. Judiciary : Supreme 

 Court, Chief Justice, Pinkney H. Walker; As- 

 sociate Justices, Alfred M. Craig, John Schol- 

 field, T. Lyle Dickey, John M. Scott, John H. 

 Mulkey, and Benjamin R. Sheldon. 



LEGISLATURE, SPECIAL SESSION. The Legis- 

 lature was convened in special session on the 

 23d of March by the Governor, for the follow- 

 ing purposes : 



1. To apportion the State into senatorial districts. 



2. To apportion the State into congressional dis- 

 tricts, and to provide for the election of Representa- 

 tives therein. 



8. To provide for submitting to a vote of the people 

 of the State, at the next general election, the proposi- 

 tion for the transfer of the Illinois and Michigan 

 Canal to the United States. 



4. To provide for the appointment of a commission 

 to report to the next General Assembly a revision of 

 the law in relation to criminal jurisprudence. 



5. To appropriate one half of the interest of the 

 College and Seminary Fund for the ordinary expenses 

 of the State Normal University. 



6. To make appropriations for the expenses of the 

 special session of the General Assembly. 



It remained in session until the 6th of May. 

 Six acts and three joint resolutions were passed, 

 the chief of which were the congressional and 

 senatorial apportionment acts, the act appro- 

 priating one half of the interest of the College 

 and Seminary Fund for the ordinary expenses of 

 the Illinois State Normal University, at Nor- 

 mal, the act ceding the Illinois and Michigan 

 Canal to the United States, and the memorial 

 to Congress in regard to the Hennepin Canal. 

 The fourth proposition was not acted upon. 

 The congressional districts are as follow : 



First District : the First, Second, Third, and Fourth 

 Wards in the city of Chicago, and the towns of River- 

 side, Hyde Park, Lake, Lyons, Calumet, Worth, 

 Palos, Lemont, Thornton, Bremen, Orland, Bloom, 

 and Rich, in the county of Cook. 



Second District: the Fifth, Sixth, and Seventh 

 Wards in the city of Chicago, and that part of the 

 Eighth Ward in the city of Chicago which is south of 



the center of Polk Street and the center of Macalester 

 Place. 



Third District: the Ninth, Tenth, Eleventh, 

 Twelfth, Thirteenth, and Fourteenth Wards in the 

 city of Chicago, and that part of the Eighth Ward in 

 the city of Chicago which is north of the center of 

 Polk Street and the center of Macalester Place. 



Fourth District : the Fifteenth, Sixteenth, Seven- 

 teenth, and Eighteenth Wards in the city of Chicago, 

 and the towns of Lake View, Jefferson, Leyden, 

 Norwood Park, Evanston, Niles, Maine, Elk Grove, 

 Schaumburg, Hanover, New Trier, Northfield, 

 Wheeling, Palatine, Barrington, Cicero, and Proviso, 

 in the county of Cook. 



Fifth District: the counties of Lake, McHenry, 

 Boon, De Kalb, and Kane. 



Sixth District : the counties of Winnebago, Ste- 

 phenson, Jo Daviess, Ogle, and Carroll. 



Seventh District : the counties of Lee, Whiteside, 

 Henry, Bureau, and Putnam. 



Eighth District : the counties of La Salle, Kendall, 

 Grundy, Will, and Du Page. 



Nintn District ; the counties of Kankakee, Iroquois, 

 Ford, Livingston, Woodford, and Marshall. 



Tenth District : the counties of Peoria, Knox, Stark, 

 and Fulton. 



Eleventh District : the counties of Rock Island, 

 Mercer, Henderson, Warren, Hancock, McDonough, 

 and Scnuyler. 



Twelfth District : the counties of Cass, Brown, 

 Adams, Pike, Scott, Greene, Jersey, and Calhoun. 



Thirteenth District: the counties of Tazewell, 

 Mason, Menard, Sangamon, Morgan^ and Christian. 



Fourteenth District: the counties of McLean, 

 De Witt, Piatt, Macon, and Logan. 



Fifteenth District : the counties of Coles, Edgar, 

 Douglas, Vermilion, and Champaign. 



Sixteenth District: the counties of Cumberland, 

 Clark, Jasper, Crawford, Clay, Richland, Lawrence, 

 Wayne, Edwards, and W abash. 



Seventeenth district: the counties of Macoupin, 

 Montgomery, Shelby, Moultrie, Effingham, and Fay- 

 ette. 



Eighteenth District : the counties of Bond, Madison, 

 St. Clair, Monroe, and Washington. 



Nineteenth District : the counties of Marion, Clin- 

 ton, Jefferson, Franklin, Hamilton, White, Saline, 

 Gallatin, and Hardin. 



Twentieth District : the counties of Perry, Ran- 

 dolph, Jackson, Williamson, Union, Johnson, Pope, 

 Alexander, Pulaski, and Massac. 



For senatorial purposes the State was di- 

 vided into fifty-one districts, each entitled to 

 one Senator and three Representatives, of 

 which ten districts are in Cook County, which 

 includes the city of Chicago. The following are 

 the principal provisions of the act ceding the 

 canal : 



That the Illinois and Michigan Canal, its right of 

 way and all its appurtenances, and all right, title, and 

 interest which the State may now have in any real 

 estate ceded to the State by the United States 



