Messages and Letters of William Henry Harrison/Proclamation Changing the boundary line between Randolph and St. Clair counties
Proclamation: Changing the Boundary Line Between Randolph and St. Clair Counties
Sundrie petitions having been presented to the Governor, from a number of the Citizens of the County of Randolph, Complaining of the great distance from the seat of justice of their county, and praying that the line dividing the ties of Randolph and St. Clair may be so altered as to annex them to the latter, the Governor Issued a proclamation, declaring the line seperating the Counties of Randolph and St. Clair [Illinois] shall begin on the Mississippi River four miles and thirty-two chains south of the point where the present division line intersects the Mississippi Bottom, thence by a direct line to the Sinkhole Springs, thence by a line north sixty degrees East until it intersects a north line running from the great Cave on the Ohio River [Cave-in-rocks], and the alterations and boundaries so established shall take place from and after the first day of May next. (Abstract)