In force, 2d March, 1837
AN ACT to legalize the sale of School lands in Pike county.
1Sec.[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That the sale of all the school lands which have been laid out into town lots and
sold by the school commissioner of Pike county,2 be and the same is hereby legalized, and the sale thereof declared valid, and the
said school commissioner is hereby authorized to sell at public sale, any lot or lots,
which may have reverted to the township or townships by the non-performance of the
purchasers thereof.3
This act to take effect from and after its passae.
Approved 2nd March, 1837.
1On February 13, 1837, William Ross introduced SB 196 in the Senate. On February 21, the Senate passed the bill. On February 27, the House of Representatives passed the bill. On March 2, the Council of Revision approved the bill, and the act became law.
Illinois House Journal. 1836. 10th G. A., 1st sess., 667, 733, 803; Illinois Senate Journal. 1836. 10th G. A., 1st sess., 403, 437, 476-77, 552-53, 591, 602.
3In 1818, when Congress passed the act enabling the Illinois Territory to become a state, it granted to every township in the state the proceeds of the
sale of land in each township’s Section 16. This money became known as the common
school fund.
“An Act to Enable the People of the Illinois Territory to Form a Constitution and
State Government, and for the Admission of Such State into the Union on an Equal Footing
with the Original States,” 18 April 1818, Statutes at Large of the United States, 3:428-31; W. L. Pillsbury, “Early Education in Illinois,” in Sixteenth Biennial Report of the Superintendent of Public Instruction of the State
of Illinois (Springfield, IL: H. W. Rokker, 1886), 106-07.
Printed Document, 1 page(s), Laws of the State of Illinois, Passed by the Tenth General Assembly (Vandalia, IL: William Walters, 1837), 313, GA Session: 10-1