An act for the relief of Samuel A. Smallwood.

Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois represented in the General [Assembly] That the County Commissioners Court of Macon County, be and they are hereby authorised to appoint at least three disinterested freeholders of said County remotely situated from the land herein required to be valued, who after being duly sworn before some justice of the peace of said County faithfully and honestly to do and perform the duties required of them by this act shall examine after having examined the same, proceed to value ^without regard to the improvement^ the S E. ¼ of Section N^o 5 Township N^o 19 N Range Three East of the 3^rd principal Meridian ^being the same whereon Samuel A. Smallwood resides^ which shall be signed by said Commissioners and forwarded to the Auditor of state to be his filed ^& kept^ in his office.

Sec.[Section] 2. After said valuation so made and reported, it shall be competent for ^the s^d[said]^ Samuel A. Smalwood at any time between the advertisement of said Land for sale & the day of sale to pay into the Treasury of state in gold or silver the full amount of the valuation of said tract of land as made by, ^the^ said commissioners aforesaid. Provided that said valuation be not less than $1.25

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per acre. And Provided further that all expenses of said ^the^ valuation of said tract of land shall be paid by the said Samuel A. Smallwood.