Sec[Section] 1 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois represented in the General Assembly, That whenever Congressional township twenty eight north, Range two west, and of
twenty five North, Range two west of the third principal meridian in the county of
Tazewell; shall each contain ten resident freeholders therein, such freeholders together with
the legal voters residing in the township may present a petition to the school commissioner
of the county for a sale of the sixteenth sections therein who shall upon being satisfied that
the petition has been signed by all of the freeholders and legal voters therein by
the affidavit of two of such voters, present the said petition to the county commissioners’ court of the county at the next term after the petition shall have been presented to him as aforesaid
and if the Said court shall be of the opinion that the sixteenth sections in said township ought to be
sold pursuant to the wish of the freeholders and voters aforesaid they shall make
an order directing the school commissioner to make sale of the same. And such commissioner
shall thereupon advertize, and sell the said
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Sections in the manner and upon the terms provided for in the sale of sections sixteen
in other townships.
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Handwritten Document, 4 page(s), Folder 221, SB 63, GA Session: 9-1, Illinois State Archives (Springfield, IL) , Â