In force, Jan.[January] 15, 1836.
AN ACT concerning the town of Boonville, in the County of Pike.
1Survey and plat of Boonviile vacated, void.
But not to affect previous sales.
Sec.[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That the survey and town plat of the town of Boonville, in the county of Pike,
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as filed and recorded in the recorder’s office, for the county of Pike, be, and the same is hereby vacated, and rendered null and void: Provided, That this act shall not be so construed, as to affect any rights acquired under said
survey and plat of said town, or any sale of any town lots made in said town, either by the former or present proprietor.
To be re-surveyed.
Sec. 2. That the present proprietor of said town, be, and he is hereby authorised and empowered, to re-survey said town, lay off the same into lots, and file a plat thereof in the recorder’s office, in
the manner now prescribed by law, acting and doing as though the same had never been
laid off into a town, or a plat thereof filed; and the town thus laid out by him, shall be styled, and known as the town of Perry.
Approved, Jan. 15, 1836.
1Responding to a petition from a citizen of Pike County, William Ross introduced HB 53 in the House of Representatives on December 22, 1835. The House passed the bill unamended on December 30. The Senate passed the bill unamended on January 13, 1836. On January 15, the Council of Revision approved the bill and the act became law.
Illinois House Journal. 1835. 9th G. A., 2nd sess., 121, 139, 177, 311, 331, 348; Illinois Senate Journal. 1835. 9th G. A., 2nd sess., 134, 227, 249, 269.
Printed Document, 2 page(s), Laws of the State of Illinois, Passed by the Ninth General Assembly, at their Second Session (Vandalia, IL:
J. Y. Sawyer, 1836), 188-89, GA Session: 9-2,