Sec[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the people of the state of Illinois represented in the General Assembly; That Eli Hooper and Pleasant Dodson of Shelby county, who were lately bail in a Recognizance for the appearance of one Solomon Story at the Circuit Court of said County of Shelby upon a charge of Larceny, and against whom judgment was rendered at the may term 1835 of said court on their said recognizance. Said Story having failed to appear according to the conditions thereof, for the sum of four hundred dollars, be and they are hereby released from, and acquited of the payment of said fine of four hundred dollars: Provided that said Hooper and Dodson, within three months from the passage of this act pay to the sheriff and clerk of the said County of Shelby, and all other officers having legal charges, all costs whatsoever, which may have in any wise accrued in the prosecution and trial of said case.

Sec 2. All said costs being paid as herein required a record of the release and acquitance hereby granted, shall be entered of record in the Books of the clerk of the circuit court of the said county of Shelby, which shall forever be a bar to the recovery of said judgment.

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