Whereas, it is represented to this General Assembly, by Mark Aldrich, John Vineyard, John Montague, that on the fourteenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four, the said Aldrich, Vineyard, Montague, and James M. Wells, were jointly possessed in fee simple of the northeast quarter of section nine, in township four north, of range nine west, of the fourth principal meridian; that the said proprietors then agreed to lay off the said tract of land into town lots, to be called the town of Warsaw and to sell and dispose of the town lots therein, for their joint benefit—that in pursuance of said agreement, they surveyed the said tract of land into town lots and caused a plat thereof duly made, subscribed and certified, to be filed of record in the recorder’s office, of Hancock county, State of Illinois: that they contracted and agreed to sell and convey to different persons one hundred and twenty-three of said lots: by the terms of which several contracts said lots, were not to be conveyed until the final payment therefor had been made: that the said James M. Wells afterwards, to wit: on the fourteenth day of October, 1835, died intestate, without having joined in conveying by deed the said lots to the several persons who had become the purchasers of the same; that the administration of the estate of the said James M. Wells was by the judge of probate of said county duly committed to William Hunter, and that the heirs of the said James M. Wells are unknown, therefore,

Sec.[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois represented in the General Assembly, That William Hunter, as administrator of the said James M. Wells deceased, and Mark Aldrich, John Vineyard and John Montague, be, and they are hereby, authorised and empowered to make, execute and deliver deeds for such lots in the said town of Warsaw. as have been sold or may hereafter be sold, according to the terms of the agreement mentioned in the preamble to this act, to the person or persons to whom the same have been or hereafter may be sold respectively, upon the payment by him or them of such sum or sums of money as may be due from such purchaser or purchasers, respectively, as purchase money for the same: which deeds so executed shall be good and effectual in law, to pass the estate, right and title which the said James M. Wells at the time of his death had, and the said Mark Aldrich, John Vineyard, and John Montague now have in and to the lots so conveyed.2