Chap. 235.—An ACT to Amend and Re-enact the 7th Section of an Act
approved April 2nd, 1870, to Provide for Dividing the several Counties
of this State into Townships.

In force March 26, 1873.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That section

seven of an act approved April second, eighteen hundred and
seventy, to provide for dividing the several counties of this
state into townships, be amended and re-enacted so as to read
as follows:
_ § 7. It shall be lawful, upon the petition of fifty qualified
voters of the township or townships proposed to be affected
thereby, after the same has been posted for at least thirty days
at the court-house of the county, and at the voting place or
places of the said township or townships, for the judge of the
county courts of the several counties, by an order entered of
record, for good cause shown, to re-arrange, increase or di-
minish the number of townships, change the name thereof,
establish or change the place or places of holding elections
therein; but at or before the trial of said petition, any citizen
or citizens of said township or townships shall have a right to
enter himself or themselves as defendants thereto, after which
said cause shall proceed in all respects as other causes upon
the docket of said court. But after one petition under this
section has been rejected by said county court, no petition for
that purpose shall be again entertained for the space of twelve
months from date of such rejection.

2. This act shall be in force from its passage.