Sec.[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois represented in the General Assembly, That Samuel Rogers of St. Clair county, parent and natural guardian of William G. Rogers a minor under the age of twenty-one years, be, and he is hereby authorized to sell and convey the following described real estate belonging to said minor, viz: Ninety two acres 64 hundreths, beginning the survey thereof at a point bearing S 1⁰ '5, E 19 90, distant from the former quarter section corner, on the north end of the north east quarter of section number three, in township number one south, of range number nine west of the third principal meridian, thence parallel with the base line east forty chains three links, to a stone thence due south twenty three chains twenty-seven links to a stone, thence parallel with the base line west thirty-nine chains fifty-nine links to a stone, thence north 1⁰ '5, W 23 27 chains to the place of beginning, also, forty-five acres situate on the east side of the west half of north west quarter of section No. 11, in the foregoing township and range making in all 134 64 hundreths acres, on the terms and conditions hereinafter expressed.2

Sec. 2. Said Samuel Rogers shall petition the court of probate in and for the county of St. Clair, setting forth the causes of his said petition or application, and if the Judge of said court shall be satisfied that it is necessary in order to the nurture and education of said minor, or that it is for the interest of said minor to sell said lands before described in the first section of this act, and vest the proceeds in other lands, he is hereby authorised to order the sale thereof, and direct the application of the proceeds to the nurture and education of said minor, or to be

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vested in other lands for his benefit, or to one or both these objects as may to him seem just and proper.

Sec. 3. Said Samuel Rogers before proceeding to sell said lands of said minor shall file with the said Judge of Probate, his bond with security to be approved of by said Judge, to the people of the State of Illinois for the use of said minor in such penal sum as said Judge shall deem sufficient, conditioned for the faithful application of the proceeds of said sale, to the purpose or purposes ordered by the said Judge of Probate.

Sec. 4. Should the said Judge of Probate, upon application made as contemplated in the second section of this act, grant an order for the sale of the lands belonging to said minor, the said Samuel Rogers shall be authorised to sell the same by giving public notice of the time and place of such sale or at private sale, as said Judge may think best calculated to promote the interest of said minor, and the said Samuel Rogers shall convey the same by good and sufficient deed of conveyance describing himself as parent and natural guardian of said William G. Rogers, relating at length in said deed the order of said Judge of Probate granting said sale, which shall be acknowledged as other deeds are. The said Samuel Rogers shall make report to the court of probate aforesaid, his actings and doings in the premises when required thereto by said court.

Sec. 5. The said Judge of Probate shall keep a record of his proceedings concerning such application, and shall receive for his trouble, such compensation and fees as are allowed him by law, for similar services.

Approved February 21, 1837.