Sec[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois represented in the General assembly; That Nicholas Boilvin of the county of Cook, the half brother, and friend of Catharine Myott mother of her only, and infant child Mary Myott, on filing with the Judge of Probate of the county of Cook aforesaid a bond with good and sufficient securities, to be approved ^of^ by said Judge, conditioned for the true and faithful discharge of the duties enjoined by this act, and that as guardian of said infant heir Mary Myott, he will well and truly account for, and invest in other land and for the education and maintenance of said Mary Myott all monies arising from the sale of a tract of land herein authorized; shall be, and he is hereby appointed guardian to the said Mary, infant daughter of his said Sister Catharine Myott, and is hereby empowered to sell and convey by sufficient deed or deeds all of a certain tract or parcel of land granted to the said infant Mary Myott by a treaty concluded and agreed upon at Prarie Duchein on the first day of August 1829, by and between the United States on the one part and the Winnebago Nation of Indians on the other part; the same being six hundred and forty acres or one entire section, and which is now about being located. Said sale to be either at private or public sale and upon such terms as to credit or not to credit as the said [...?] guardian may deem proper and most beneficial to his said ward.

Sec 2. The money arising from said sales shall be chargeable in account with his ward to the said guardian, and shall be laid out by him to the best advantage in other lands and the maintenance and education of her his said ward.

Sec 3. The said Boilvin, guardian as aforesaid shall be allowed a reasonable allowance for the care charge and maintenance of his said ward; and when she arrives at lawful age then the said guardian shall be required faithfully to account with his ward for the manner in which he may have managed her affairs.

This act to take effect from and after its passage.