Sec[Section] 1^st Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois Represented in the General Assembly, That Giles. Y. Taylor [,] Tiler D. Huet[,] and Charlen Guard or a magority of them be and they are hereby authorized to examine books[,] maps[,] &c[etc] of the commissioners of the Ohio Saline, and if it appears to said commissioner that the section numbered sixteen or any portion thereof in said reserve has been selected and sold by the State, then said commissioners shall be authorized to proceed on the first day of april or as soon their after as convenient to select in lots of not less than eighty acres, in the name of the inhabitants of the proper township, one section of land in lieu of such sixteenth section selected and sold by the State as aforesaid, and report the number of the same to the commissioner of the Ohio Saline Lands whose duty it shall be to enter the same upon his books in the name of the inhabitants of the proper township and strike off to the State an equal number of acres, of lands heretofore selected, which lands so selected by the commissioners aforesaid shall be applied or the proceeds thereof by the inhabitents of such township to the purposes of Education, agreeable to the laws of this State, all of which shall be selected in the same section,

Sec. 2. Said commissioners shall be allowed by the inhabitents of the township for whose benefit said selection may be made, one dollar per day whilst necessorially engaged in making such selections to be paid out of the proceeds of said

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lands, this act to take effect and be in force from and after the 1^st day of april next