In force Jan.[January] 13, 1836.
AN ACT for the benefit of the inhabitants of fractional range eleven, in White County.
1Sec.[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That hereafter the townships in fractional range eleven, in White county, shall be attached for all school purposes to the adjacent townships in fractional
range fourteen in said county.2
Approved, Jan. 13, 1836.
1Nathaniel Blackford introduced HB 46 in the House of Representatives on December 19. 1835. The House passed the bill on December 23. The Senate passed the bill on January 11, 1836. On January 13, the Council of Revision approved the bill and the act became law.
Illinois House Journal. 1835. 9th G. A., 2nd sess., 33, 110, 129, 139-40, 285, 302, 309, 320; Illinois
Senate Journal. 1835. 9th G. A., 2nd sess., 103, 211, 230, 236.
2In 1818, when Congress passed the act enabling the Illinois Territory to become a state, it granted to every township in the state the proceeds of the
sale of land in each township’s Section 16. This money became known as the common
school fund, and was originally intended to finance the schools in the county. Fractional
Range 11 East and fractional Range 14 West comprise the eastern portion of White County bordering on the Wabash River.
“An Act to Enable the People of the Illinois Territory to Form a Constitution and
State Government, and for the Admission of Such State into the Union on an Equal Footing
with the Original States,” 18 April 1818, Statutes at Large of the United States, 3:428-31; W. L. Pillsbury, “Early Education in Illinois,” in Sixteenth Biennial Report of the Superintendent of Public Instruction of the State
of Illinois (Springfield, IL: H. W. Rokker, 1886), 106-07.
Printed Document, 1 page(s), Laws of the State of Illinois, Passed by the Ninth General Assembly, at their Second Session (Vandalia, IL:
J. Y. Sawyer, 1836), 231, GA Session: 9-2,