Sec.[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That the inhabitants of the town of White Hall, in the county of Greene, in this State, is hereby incorporated, with all the rights and privileges, granted to incorporated towns by the laws of Illinois, and the said inhabitants may, on the first day of March next, or any day thereafter, elect a President and Trustees of said town, according to the provisions of the act authorizing towns to be incorporated; and said President and Trustees, when elected and qualified, may re-survey and make out a new plat of said town, and which shall be recorded according to law, and said President and Trustees may close any streets and alleys now laid out in said town, and may make any new streets and alleys they may deem necessary; and the said President and Trustees may dispose of and convey the land in said streets and alleys, so to be closed by deed under the hand and seal of said President, to the owners of the adjoining lots fronting or joining upon said streets and alleys: Provided, Said owners will accept a conveyance of the same; but if said owners shall refuse to accept the said land as aforesaid, the said land may be sold and conveyed to any other person.

Approved 19th January, 1837.