Be it enacted by the People of the state of Illinois Represented in the General Assembly That whenever a majority of the inhabitants of congressional Township Number three in Range Number fourteen West of the second principal meridian shall petition the school commissioner and agent of the county in which the greater portion of the sixteenth section of said Township lies, it shall be the duty of said Commissioner to sell the same in such subdivisions, on such Terms as to credit or cash in hand, and at such place either within said Township or at the county seat of any county in which a portion of said sixteenth section may lie, as the said Petition may request. The proceeds of such sale, to be managed[,] applied[,] and accounted for as the Law directs in other sales of sixteenth sections.

This act to be in force from and after its passage.