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Sec.[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois Represented in the General Assembly That John Woods Guardian of Thomas T. Woods infant coheir of John Woods deceased, on filing with the Judge of Probate of the County of Edwards, a bond, with good and sufficient security, to be approved of by said Judge, in such
sum as may be deemed sufficient by said Judge conditioned for the true, and faithful
discharge of the duties enjoined by this Act, and that as the Guardian of said infant
heir,2 he will well and truly pay over to said heir when he said heir shall arrive at the
Age of twenty one years, or should he before that time, legally cease to be such Guardian,
that he will well and truly pay over to such person as shall legally succeed him as
such Guardian, all the Monies arising from the sale of lands herein authorised, shall, be and is hereby impowered to sell and convey by sufficient deed or deeds, all the right, title, interest, and
claim, it being one undivided sixth part of said infant heir of[,] in, and to, the following described lands situate in said County of Edwards viz. The North West Quarter of Section Number Eighteen, and the South East Quarter
of Section Number Nineteen, both in Township Number two South, of Range Number Ten
East,3 of which the said John Woods now deceased died Seized, either at private sale under the direction, and Sanction,
of said Judge, or at Public sale on giving due Notice for six weeks in the Mount Carmel Sentinel and by posting up written notices in
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three several public places in said County of Edwards, And upon such terms as to credit or prompt payment, as the said Guardian by the
sanction of said Judge of Probate may deem beneficial to said infant heir.
Sec 2. The monies arising from the said sales shall be chargeable in account with his
ward to the said Guardian, who shall be answerable for the proper investment of the
same, as for other monies coming, or to come, to his hands as such Guardian
Sec 3rd The said Court of Probate may upon complaint, being made require said Guardian to
give Other and additional security for the discharge of the duties, arising under
this Act, and in default of his complying with such requisition, remove said Guardian
and appoint another requiring bond as before conditioned
This act to be in force from and after its passage
This act to be in force from and after its passage
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A Bill for An Act for the benefit of Thomas T. Woods infant heir of John Woods decd[deceased]
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1Edwin B. Webb introduced HB 36 in the House of Representatives on December 27, 1836. The House passed the bill on January 6, 1837. On January 10,
the Senate rejected passage of the bill.
Illinois House Journal. 1836. 10th G. A., 1st sess., 84, 124, 157, 190, 231; Illinois Senate Journal. 1836. 10th G. A., 1st sess., 169, 172, 178, 183.
2In a legal context, the term “infant heir” simply means the heir is a minor. At the
time of the writing of this bill, Thomas T. Woods was actually about 15 years old.
Dennis E. Suttles, “’For the Well-Being of the Child’: The Law and Childhood,” in
Daniel W. Stowell, ed., In Tender Consideration: Women, Families, and the Law in Abraham Lincoln’s Illinois (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2002), 47-48.
Handwritten Document, 4 page(s), Folder 36, HB 36, GA Session 10-1, Illinois State Archives (Springfield, IL) ,