Sec[Section] 1^st Be it Enacted by the people of the state of Illinois represented in the general assembly That whenever a guardian or guardians shall be appointed by the Probate Court of the County of Perry for the infant heirs of Robert B. Murphy late of said County deceased towit, Mary, Sarah, Samuel B. and Ellen Murphy and shall have filed with the said court a bond with good and sufficient securities to be approved of by said ^court^ in such sum as may be deemed sufficient by said Court conditioned for the faithful discharge of the duties enjoined by this act, and that a guardian or guardians of the said infant heirs they ^he^ will well and truly vest the proceeds of the sale of the lands of which the said Robert B. Murphy died seized and possessed and occupied by him as a plantation with the lands attached thereto lying and being in Perry County, in other real estate unimproved in some land District of the state making the best selections for said heirs: said guardian or guardians shall be and are^he is^ hereby empowered to sell and convey by sufficient deed or deeds all the lands of the said Robert B. Murphy dec^d[deceased] and which have descended to them ^the said infants^ or his heirs at Law, known as his plantation and the lands attached thereto for the use of the same, ^in Perry County aforesaid,^ with at private sale under the direction and sanction of said Judge at public sale, and upon such terms as to the said guardian

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or guardians may seem most advantageous for the said heirs

Sct.[Section] 2. So soon as the money is realized from said sale, it shall be the duty of the said guardian to vest the proceeds ^thereof^ in other unimproved lands at the price demanded for the same by the United States, in some one or more land District of this state, having due regard to the quality of [said] land, advantages of situation and probable profitable value ^thereof:^ which said land shall be purchased by said guardian for said heirs in the name and as tenants in Common.

Sect[Section] 3. Should the said Guardian have funds in his hands arising from the sale of the personal estate of the said Robert B. Murphy dec^d, more than sufficient to educate and maintain the said infants; it shall be his duty to vest such surplus in unimproved land at Government price, in the manner provided in the second section of this act.

This act to take effect and be in force from and after its passage.