Sec.[Section] 1 Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois Represented in the General Assembly That the Executor or Executors of the last will and Testament of Ezekiel Good Deceased upon filing a bond with the Judge of Probate of Macoupin County payable to the people of the State of Illinois for the use of the heirs of the said Ezekiel Good deceased with such securities and in such sum as may be approved of by the said Judge, conditioned for the performance of the duties enjoined on them by this act are hereby authorised to lay off into Town lots, if it appear most advantageous to the said heirs, the following tract of land viz thirty acres off the west side of the west half of the South East quarter of Section twenty Eight in Township ten North of Range Seven west of the third principal Meridian, and to sell at public vendue upon giving four weeks previous notice of the time and place of sale, in some public news paper printed in this State, all the right[,] title[,] and interest of which the said Ezekiel Good died seized, in and to the same, either on credit or ^for^ prompt payment, as the said Executor or Executors may think best, and to make sufficient deeds or conveyances to the purchasers thereof for the same

Sec 2. That the said Executor or Executors shall pay over to the lawful guardian or Guardians of Sally Ann Good[,] Mary Elizabeth Good[,] Minerva Stevans Good and Thomas Henry Good infant heirs of Ezekiel Good dec’d[deceased] all the money arising from the sale of the said land

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and take their receipt for the same, and the said Guardians shall be chargeable therewith as in other cases, and shall lay out the same if necessary for the support and maintenance of the said heirs Provided however if the personal Estate is ^in^sufficient to pay off the debts of the said Ezekiel Good dec’d then and in that case, the said Executor or Executors shall use the proceeds of said sale or so much thereof as necessary for the payment of the said debts Provided also that the said Executor or Executors are hereby empowered to convey by deed or otherwise to the County Commissioners of Macoupin County and their Successors in Office One acre of land as near as may be in a square in the South West Corner of Said thirty acres, to be used as a burying ground and so as to include the graves already in said land

Sec 3 This act to be in force from and after its passage