Whereas it has been represented to the General Assembly That the citizens of the Town of Pekin in the County of Tazewell did on the 2.d. day of July A. 1835, meet together and determine by vote that they would become incorporated according to the provisions of an act entitled an “act to incorporate such Towns as may wish to be incorporated approved March 1^st 1831.” And whereas by accident or mistake the certified statement, of the polls of said meeting, was lost and have not been filed and recorded in the Clerks office of the County Commissioners Court in said County as the said act directs, therefore

Sec.[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the people of the state of Illinois Represented in the General Assembly, That the said Town of Pekin shall not be considered illegally incorporated on account of any Omission of the Trustees or Clerks to do or perform any act or thing made necessary to be done ^or performed^ by the above recited act in incorporating said Town

Sec 2. That all acts, orders, Records, By Laws, and regulations done and made by the Trustees of said Town in accordance with the provisions of the said act and which they might have done, and made had such original incorporation of said Town been conducted in all respects according to the requisitions of said Law are hereby declared legal and valid

Sec 3. The said Town of Pekin is hereby declared an incorporated Town under the above recited act any Omission or mistake in the incorporation of said Town to the contrary notwithstanding

Sec. 4. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage