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 second day of July, A.D. 1835, meet and determine, by vote, that they would become incorporated, according to the provisions of an act en-

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titled “An act to incorporate such towns as may wish to be incorporated,” approved March 1st, 1831;2 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 clerk’s office of the county commissioners’ court in said county as the said act directs: Therefore,

Sec. 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 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.

Approved 19th January, 1837.