An act for the relief of the ci Inhabitants of section Township 10. in Range So[South] 9, in Gallatin County

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois represented in the General Assembly, That James Haynes[,] John ^ John ^ Ellis, and John Willis of Gallatin County, be, and they are hereby authorized to examine books, maps, &c.[etc.] of the Gallatin Commissioner of the Ohio Saline, and if it shall appear to said commissioners that the section numbered sixteen In Township Nort number ten and in Range Number nine,2 or any portion thereof, has been sold selected and sold by the State as Ohio Saline lands, under and by virtue of ^the laws of^ this state heretofore passed in the premises,3 then said commisioners shall be authorized to procee^d^ on the first day of April, next or as soon thereafter as convenient to select, in lots, of not less than forty acres ^ [...?] the property of the State, in said Saline any where with^ in the name and for the benefit of the Inhabitants of said Township^in the limits of said Saline not however to include the salt wells and lots herewith reserved.^, one section of land in lieu of said sixteenth section, selected and sold by the state as aforesaid, and report the desb discriptions of the same to the Commissioner of Ohio Saline, whose duty it shall be to enter the same upon his books, in the name of the Inhabitants of the proper township, and charge the state with the same: which lands sold so selected by the commissioners, aforesaid shall

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be applied, or the proceeds thereof by the inhabitants of said Township, to the purposes of Education, agreeably to the laws of this State.4

Sec. 2^d Said commissioners shall be allowed by the inhabitants of the Township for whose benefit said selection may be made, one dollar per day whilst necessarily engaged in making such selections, to be paid out of the proceeds of said selections, or otherwise.