Court of Common Pleas in the Cahokia district of St. Clair
county.

158 St. Clair county had been formed in 1790 and Randolph county in
1795. In 1796, they were the only counties lying wholly within the
present State of Illinois. A strip of the eastern part of Illinois
lay in Knox county. The line between St. Clair and Randolph was an
east-and-west line, a little south of New Design, Randolph lying to
the south--"St. Clair Papers," II., 165, 166, 345.

159 "Pub. Lands," I., 68-9; "Ind. Hist. Soc. Pub.," II., 447-52, 452-55.

160 "Pub. Lands," I., 68; Poore, "Desc. Catalogue of Govt.
Publications," 43; "Laws of U. S. Relating to Pub. Lands," 420-5.

161 "Ind. Hist. Soc. Pub.," II., 455-61; "Annals of Cong.," 6th Cong.,
735.

162 "Annals of Cong.," 6th Cong., 537-538; Poore, "Desc. Catalogue of
Govt. Publications," 43; "Statutes at Large," II., 73-8.

163 "Statutes at Large," II., 58-9; "Annals of Cong.," 6th Cong., 507,
699, 701.

164 According to the Act of May 10, 1800, public land was to be sold in
tracts, not smaller than one-half sections, and for a minimum price
of two dollars per acre. One-twentieth of the purchase-money should
be paid at the time of sale, the remainder of one-fourth of the
price within forty days, one-fourth in two years, one-fourth in
three years, and one-fourth in four years. On the last three
payments, interest should be paid at six per cent from the date of
sale, and on the same three payments a discount of eight per cent
per year should be granted for prepayment. Land unpaid for reverted
to the United States--"Statutes at Large," II., 73-8.

165 "Ind. Hist. Soc. Pub.," II., 461-70; "Annals of Cong.," 8th Cong.,
1st Sess., 1023-4; 9th Cong., 1st Sess., 293-4, 466-8.

166 A western tributary of the lower part of the Kaskaskia.

167 "Pub. Lands," I., 591.

168 "Statutes at Large," II., 469; Poore, "Charters and Constitutions,"
821, 832, 964, 973; McMaster, "Acquisition of the ... Rights of Man
in Am.," 111-22; "Proceedings and Debates of the Va. State Conv. of
1829-30," _passim_; Mowry, "The Dorr War," _passim_.

169 "Draper Coll., Ill. MSS.," 37, 39, 43, 54, 57, 58, 67, 102, 104,
107, 108, 113; "Pub. Lands," I., 20; "Wis. Hist. Soc. Coll.," VII.,
300; " 'Father Clark;' or, The Pioneer Preacher," 181 _et seq._