Papers Of Abraham Lincoln

In force Feb.[February] 6, 1835.

AN ACT to authorize the sale of certain School Land therein named.
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Sec. 16 T.[Township] 5 S.[South] R.[Range] 14 W.[West], in White county, authorized to be sold.

Sec.[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That the sixteenth section2 in township five south, of range fourteen west, in White county, may be sold in the manner now prescribed by law,3 upon the petition of a majority of the inhabitants of said township, any law to the contrary notwithstanding. This law to take effect from and after its passage.

Approved, Feb. 6, 1835.

1HB 54 passed the House of Representatives on January 24, 1835. The Senate concurred on February 2. On February 6, the Council of Revision approved bill and the act became law.
Journal of the House of Representatives of the Ninth General Assembly of the State of Illinois, at their First Session, Begun and Held in the Town of Vandalia, December 1, 1834 (Vandalia, IL: J. Y. Sawyer, 1835), 473; Journal of the Senate, of the Ninth General Assembly of the State of Illinois, at their First Session, Begun and Held in the Town of Vandalia, December 1, 1834 (Vandalia, IL: J. W. Sawyer, 1835), 326, 351, 388, 401, 445, 448, 454; Journal of the House of Representatives of the Ninth General Assembly of the State of Illinois, at their Second Session, Begun and Held in Pursuance of the Proclamation of the Governor, in the Town of Vandalia, December 7, 1835 (Vandalia, IL: J. Y. Sawyer, 1835), 399, 401, 411.

2The U.S. Congress reserved the sixteenth section of townships for public schools in the Land Ordinance of 1785.

3The law cited may have been the Illinois Free School Act of 1825. The General Assembly amended this act in 1827.
“An Act amending the act providing for the establishment of Free Schools, approved, January 15, 1825, and for other purposes,” 17 February 1827, The Revised Laws of Illinois (Vandalia, IL: Greiner & Sherman, 1833), 554-56;