. History of Pike county, Illinois; together with sketches of its cities, villages and townships, educational, religious, civil, military, and political history; portraits of prominent persons and biographies of representative citizens. History of Illinois ... Digest of state laws .. . d Shaw, and to suit his convenience. COUNTI-SEAT MOVED TO ATLAS. Evidently a little rivalry had sprunp up between the settlementsat Atlas and Coles Grove, the latter of which had been the county-seat up to this time (^1S23V Atlas the most im|)ortant townin the county, and it became ambitious to have the cou
. History of Pike county, Illinois; together with sketches of its cities, villages and townships, educational, religious, civil, military, and political history; portraits of prominent persons and biographies of representative citizens. History of Illinois ... Digest of state laws .. . d Shaw, and to suit his convenience. COUNTI-SEAT MOVED TO ATLAS. Evidently a little rivalry had sprunp up between the settlementsat Atlas and Coles Grove, the latter of which had been the county-seat up to this time (^1S23V Atlas the most im|)ortant townin the county, and it became ambitious to have the county build-ings located there, which it finally secured. Pursuant to an act ofthe Legislature, aj>pn»ved Dec. 30. 1>>22, to fix upon and locate thepermanent seat of justice for Pike county, the c^>mmi88ion ap-pointed made their re|>ort at the March term of the CommissionersCourt. 1823, and jiresented a deed from William Il«jss and RufusBrown for one acre of land, which was given as an inducement forthe county to locate its seat of justice there. The report reads asfollows : * The Commissioners appointed to fix upon and locate the per-manent seat of justice of Pike county have attended to the servicesassigned them, and do report that they have fixed the permanent.
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