In force, 22d July, 1837.
AN ACT appropriating the residue of the Vermilion Saline Lands to the counties of Iroquois and Vermilion, for the building of Bridges across the Iroquois and Vermilion rivers.
1Unsold lands of Vermilion Saline Reserve
Appropriations to Iroquois of 500 acres to build bridge
Sec.[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That all the residue of the unsold lands of the Vermilion Saline Reserve, together with all money remaining in the hands of the receiver of the same, not
otherwise appropriated,2 is hereby appropriated to the counties of Iroquois and Vermilion, for the purposes of building a bridge aforesaid, as follows, to wit: To the county of Iroquois, five hundred acres of the unsold land, the proceeds whereof to be laid out
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under the superintendence of the county commissioners’ court, to the building a bridge across the Iroquois river.
Bridge across Big Vermilion
Sec. 2. That all the residue of the said land, together with all the money remaining in the
hands of the receiver of the said saline land, shall be expended by the county commissioners’ court, on the bridge across theBig Vermilion river , where the state road from Vincennes to Chicago crosses the same.
This act to take effect and be in force from and after its passage.
Approved, 22d July, 1837.
1John W. Vance introduced SB 42 in the Senate on July 15, 1837. The Senate passed the bill on July 18. On July 20, the House of Representatives amended the bill by inserting after the word “same” in the first section the words
“not otherwise appropriated.” The House passed the bill as amended. The Senate concurred
with the House amendment on July 21. On July 22, the Council of Revision approved the bill and the act became law.
Illinois House Journal. 1837. 10th G. A., special sess., 114, 142, 165, 181; Illinois Senate Journal. 1837. 10th G. A., special sess., 60, 70, 87-88, 118-19, 121, 145, 146.
2On July 20, 1837, the House of Representatives amended the bill by adding the words “not otherwise appropriated.”
Illinois House Journal. 1837. 10th G. A., special sess., 142.
Printed Document, 2 page(s), Laws of the State of Illinois, Passed by the Tenth General Assembly, at their Special Session (Vandalia, IL: William Walters, 1837), 86-87, GA Session: 10-S,