In force, 27th Feb.[February] 1837.
AN ACT relating to the town of Utica in the county of Fulton.
1Whereas Ware Long of the county of Fulton, laid out the town of Utica, on a tract of land on Copperas creek in said county, and whereas in the plat on record in the recorder’s office in said county of Fulton, there is a mistake in the description of the tract of land upon which the said town is situated; therefore,
W. Long authorised to correct mistake in map.
Duty of recorder.
Sec.[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That the said Ware Long be and he is hereby authorised to correct the mistake in describing said plat, and the recorder of said county of
Fulton, is hereby required to permit said correction to be made in describing the said plat
now on record in his office, so that the same may conform to the land on which the
town is actually located, being the south west quarter of section eleven, in township
six north in range five east.
Deeds heretofore made to be valid.
Sec. 2. All deeds heretofore made and executed for the conveyance of lots in said town of
Utica, shall be to all intents and purposes as valid and effectual in law and equity, as
though the said tract of land had been correctly described on said plat, and in said
deeds.
Town of Bloomfield to be called Byron, town of Fulton to be called Bernadotte.
Sec. 3. The town of Bloomfield, in the county of Fulton, shall hereafter be known and designated by the name
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of Byron, and the town of Fulton in said county, shall hereafter be known and designated by the name of Bernadotte.
1On January 26, 1837, Samuel Hackelton introduced SB 126 in the Senate. On February 2, 1837, the Senate passed the bill. On February 11, the House of Representatives referred the bill to a select committee. On February 14, the select committee reported
the bill with amendments, and the House concurred in those amendments. On February
20, the House passed the bill as amended. On February 24, the Senate concurred in the House amendments. On February 27, the Council of Revision approved the bill and the act became law.
Illinois House Journal. 1836. 10th G. A., 1st sess., 567, 587, 652, 711, 726; Illinois Senate Journal. 1836. 10th G. A., 1st sess., 301, 328, 336, 470-471, 514, 530-531, 544.
2In January 1836, the General Assembly passed a bill with similar ends, but the bill never became law.
Printed Document, 2 page(s), Laws of the State of Illinois, Passed by the Tenth General Assembly (Vandalia, IL: William Walters, 1837), 331-32, GA Session: 10-1