Papers Of Abraham Lincoln

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A Bill for

An act to amend the several acts in relation to school lands, and the sale of the Sixteenth ^Section^ in each Township in this State

Sec[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois represented in the General assembly that the Auditor of public Accounts be and he is hereby authorised and required, upon the report of the Commissioners of school lands or agents for the inhabitants of the several Counties in this state, to issue patents for and on the name of the Transferree or transferrees assignee or assignees of the original purchasers of said lands. ^any law heretofore enacted to the contrary notwithstanding^2

This act to take effect from and after its passage

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A Bill for
An act to amend the several acts, in relation to school lands, and the sale of the 16^th Section in each Township in this State

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A Bill for an act in relation to the title of school lands

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Prickett, David (Pricket)

To be Engrossed
clk. H. R.

1Charles Gregory introduced HB 75 in the House of Representatives on December 26, 1835. On January 1, 1836, the House passed the bill. The Senate read the bill, but took no further action.
Illinois House Journal. 1835. 9th G. A., 2nd sess., 155, 193, 201; Illinois Senate Journal. 1835. 9th G. A., 2nd sess., 150, 260.

2School lands referred to the land in each township reserved for public education. In 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. In 1829, the General Assembly enacted legislation authorizing and governing the sale of school lands. The General Assembly revised this law in 1831.
“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; “An Act Authorizing the Sale of Sections Numbered Sixteen, or Such Land as May be Granted, in Lieu Thereof, to the Inhabitants of Such Townships, for the Use of Schools,” 22 January 1829, Revised Code of Laws, of Illinois (1829), 150-54; “An Act to Amend an Act, Entitled ‘An Act Authorizing the Sale of Sections Numbered Sixteen, or Such Land as May be Granted in Lieu Thereof to the Inhabitants of Such Townships, for the Use of Schools, Approved Jan. 22, 1829,’” 15 February 1831, Laws of Illinois (1831), 172-76.