Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois represented in the General Assembly; That the division and sale of the school sections of land numbered Sixteen, by the school commissioner of the County of Fulton, in the year 1834 and 1835 in each of the following Townships, to wit, in township Six north, in range three east, in five north one east, in three north, two east, in five north four east, and in six north four east in said County, be and the same are hereby ratified and confirmed, and shall be as good and effectual in law and equity, as though the said sales had in all respects been executed agreeably to law.