An act providing for the Sale of the Fractional Sixteenth Section in Township Six north Range Twelve, West and Such other Lands as have been Selected in Lieu of the 16th Section in the fractional Townships on the Mississippi and Illinois Rivers in Green County,

Sec[Section] 1^st Be It enacted by the people of the state of Illinois Represented in the General assembly That upon the petition of three fourths of the inhabitants of Township Six North of Range 12 West, in Green County for the sale of the fractional sixteenth section in said Township, it shall be the duty of the School Commissioners to to sell said fractional sixteenth section, according to the Laws providing for the sales of ^10^ such Lands, Either in Town lots or such other divisions or subdivisions as the Trustees of such Township may direct,

Sec. 2^d That such Lands as have been selected in Lieu of the Sixteenth Section in fractional Township upon the Mississippi and Illinois Rivers in Green County may be sold or any portion thereof belonging to either of said fractional Townships upon the petition of three fourths of the inhabitants of said Township or if there be not ten inhabitents voters in said Township Said Lands may be sold by the petition of any fifty Legal voters of the County in which such Lands Lie in the same manner as other Lands are sold under the Laws providing for the sales of Section Sixteen in the different Countys of this state, and the monies accruing from the sales of said Lands shall be disposed of in the same manner for the benefit of

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the inhabitents of the several Townships as other moneys derived from the sale of sections sixteen are.

Sec 3^rd Be It further enacted That Should there be any person or persons living upon any of the Lands Selected in Lieu of the Sixteenth Sections in Said fractional Townships in Green County, or have any improvements thereon, they may apply after the Same shall have been valued. (which valuation Shall be the Same as if no improvement had been made thereon) to the School Commissioners of Said County who Shall permit them to enter the same at the valuation of the Trustees of the Township to which said Land belongs, and if there should be no Trustees in Said Township, to which the Land belongs: Then the County Commissioners Court of said County shall appoint three disinterested men of said County, to make said valuation.