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Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois Represented in the general assembly, That the States Attorney for the Sixth Judicial Circuit in this State shall at the
first term of the La Salle Circuit Court after the passage of this act or as soon
thereafter as practible cause a writ of quo warranto against James B Campbell and
George E Walker returnable to said Circuit Court or whatever other Court in the County
of which said the land were entered and purchased under an act entitle an act Granting full preemption
rights and for other purposes approved March the 2[d?] 1833, and if the said lands have not been entered in pursuance of the provisions
of the above recited act, then it shall be lawfull for the Circuit Court of said County
to vacate the said entry and the law authorizeing said preemptions shall be null and
void, and no other lands shall be entered under the same law2
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a Bill for an act to mend an act entitle an act granting preemptions rights and for other purposes approved March 2d 1833
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1John D. Hughes introduced HB 138 in the House of Representatives on January 20, 1835. The House referred it to a select committee. The select committee
reported back the bill on January 21 with a substitute, in which the House concurred.
On January 22, the House again referred the bill to a select committee. The select
committee did not report back the bill during the remainder of the session.
Illinois House Journal. 1835. 9th G. A., 1st sess., 316, 337, 344, 354, 370.
2In 1833, the General Assembly passed an act allowing a pre-emption right of 80 acres of canal land each to James B. Campbell and George E. Walker, with the proviso that the land could not be within one mile of the township of Chicago, nor within one mile of the township where the Illinois and Michigan Canal ended on the Illinois River. On July 16, 1834, Walker purchased 80 acres in the area of Utica, Illinois, and on September 10, 1834, Campbell purchased 80 acres in Will County.
“An Act Granting pre-emption rights, and for other purposes,” 2 March 1833, Laws of a Private Nature, Passed at the Eighth Session of the General Assembly of
the State of Illinois (1833), 111; Illinois Public Domain Land Tract Sales, La Salle County, L5A:108, Will County, L5A:126, Illinois State Archives, Springfield,
IL.
Handwritten Document, 2 page(s), Folder 112, HB 138, GA Session: 9-1,
Illinois State Archives (Springfield, IL) ,