Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois represented in the General assembly, That the seventh section of the act to which this is an amendment shall be held to extend to and embrace every case where any number of inhabitants of any one or more congressional Townships have themselves associated or may hereafter associate themselves together for the purchase of any quantity of land not exceeding ten acres for the encouragement of learning, and the conveyance for such land shall be made to the trustees of school lands in the townships in which said land lies by their corporate name, and shall be held by said corporation for the use of the persons associating themselves together as aforesaid, and their successors and assigns forever.