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From: "Pearl" <>
Subject: Re: [ILLASALL] Painter/Root
Date: Sun, 31 Oct 1999 06:27:17 -0800


Thank you very much I appreciate the information. Pearl
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Date: Sunday, October 31, 1999 5:11 AM
Subject: Re: [ILLASALL] Painter/Root


> List:
> Pearl Cook inquired as to the town of Bruce and its relationship to the
>City of Streator. Illinois has a somewhat bewildering array of local
>governments including: cities, villages, counties,fire protection
districts,
>library districts, forest preserve districts, mosquito abatement districts
>and townships. Each district has certain statutory duties and some taxing
>powers, and each usually has elected officials.
> A township is not a "town" in the popular sense of the word. In
>accordance with the Northwest Ordinance of 1787, the five states of the old
>Northwest Territory were surveyed into townships of 36 sections each.
Bruce
>Township is located to the east of the Vermilion River and covers the
>northern area of Streator and some unincorporated area north of Streator.
>Most of the early settlers located in the area north of Streator. Bruce
>Township has some limited statutory duties; mainly, the maintenance of some
>roads. It also maintains two of the oldest cemeteries in Lasalle
nty.(
>Mackey and Barnhart) It maintains an office in Streator and has some records
>on the people buried in the Mackey and Barnhart cemeteries.
>
>Bruce Mackey
>
>
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