An act relating to the sale of the Gallatin Saline Lands

Sec[Section] 1^st Be it enacted by the People of the state of Illinois represented in the General assembly That, Leonard White Daniel Wood and John E. Hall Be and they are hereby appointed commissioners to enter upon the Saline reserve in Gallatin county and select any quantity of land not exceeding three ^five^ thousand acres of land and if there are any lands selected by the former Commissioners, which shall interfere with salt making at Said Saline or which is not now likely to sell the same shall be relinquished by the aforesaid commissioners to an amount not exceeding the said three ^five^ thousand acres the said Commissioners shall before entering upon their duties take an oath before some justice of the peace faithfully to discharge the duties enjoined upon them by this act.

sec. 2. When the said Commissioners shall enter upon the duties of their said office and relinquish old selections & make new ones in lieu thereof they shall report the same to the commissioners of sales of Saline lands noteing in their said report the descriptions of lands relinquished and those selected in in lieu thereof makeing in by separate reports a distinction between a change of lands in the first and second selections

sec 3. The said Commissioners shall not be authorized to select any lands within any lease unless the lessee shall req relinquish any incumtrance he may have by virtue of his lease to the said land so selected in which case the said commissioners shall

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file the same & return the same along with their report to the commissioner of sales, and all lands to be reselected under this act shall be sold free from the incumbrance of any lease

Sec 4 all persons who have settled on any of the said lands that may hereafter be selected under the provisions of this act and shall be in the actual occupancy of the same at he period when this act takes effect shall be entitled to the right of purchaseing the same at any time previous to the same being offered for sale as is hereinafter provided, ^at the minimum price^ and also all persons shall be entitled to the same right, who shall have made permanent & valuable improvements thereon tending towards husbandry or who shall be the owner or occupier thereof at the time this act takes effect, ^Provided that no one shall be entitled to purchase more than eighty acres under the preemption right right herein granted^

Sec. 5. In all cases where claims ^to^ of the right of Premption shall be made by two or more to the same tract of land the same shall be decided by the third section of an act entitled “an act Concerning the Gallatin County & vermillion County Saline lands which said section is hereby revived & continued in force for the purpose aforesaid, but in all cases the preference shall be given to the actual settler

Sec 6. After the said Commissioners shall have made their report to the Commissioner of Sales it shall be his duty to advertise the same for sale in some public newspaper at least four weeks previous to the day of sale and on the day offer the same as lands have been heretofore offered for sale

Sec 7. The Commissioners named in the first section of this act shall not in their selections of lands interfere with the manufactory of salt but shall in all cases consult the interest of the state & of the present

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lessees so far as makeing salt is concerned. They shall be allowed the same compensation as other commissioners heretofore have been allowed to be paid by the commissioner of sales