A Bill for An Act to authorize the [...?] of the Saline lands in Bond County.

Sect.[Section] 1 Be it enacted for the people of the State of Illinois represented in the General Assembly, That Thomas Keys and Jacob Drake of Bond County are hereby constituted Commissioners of the Saline Lands lying within the County of Bond in the State of Illinois, and the said Thomas Keys and Jacob Drake, Commissioners as aforesaid are hereby authorized to make sale ^on a credit of one & two years^ of all or any part of said Saline Lands lying within the County aforesaid and belonging to the State of Illinois, Provided however, they shall first cause notice to be given through some one of the public newspapers printed in this State, and by posting up written or printed notices in three of the most public places in the County aforesaid for six weeks successively prior to the day of sale, setting fourth in said notices the terms, time, manner and place of such sale.

Sect. 2. Said sale shall be between the hours of nine of the clock in the morning and six of the clock of the evening and on a credit of six months ^one year^ for one half, and twelve months ^two years^ for the ballance, the purchaser entering into Bond with approved Security, payable to Thomas Keyes and Jacob Drake, Commissioners as aforesaid, for the use of the State of Illinois, for the payment of the purchase money. The said lands to be sold in lots not to exceed forty Acres each, and may be sold in lots containing a less number of Acres, should said Commissioners think advisable. In no case shall any of said Saline Lands be sold for a less sum than one dollar and twenty-five Cents per Acre

Sect 3 The funds that may be raised by the Sale of Said saline L[an]ds aforesaid, shall go into and form a

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part of the Common School fund of this State, and when the same is realized, or any part thereof, the Commissioners aforesaid shall pay the same over to the School Commissioners for the State of Illinois.

Sect 4. The said Thomas Keys and Jacob Drake Commissioners as aforesaid, shall before entering upon the duties of their office, enter into Bond in the penal sum of Three thousand Dollars, payable to the Governor for the use of the people of the State of Illinois, conditioned for the faithful performance and discharge of their duties, as Commissioners as aforesaid, and for the payment and delivery promptly of all funds arising from the sale of the Saline Lands aforesaid, to the School Commissioners aforesaid.

Sect. 5. In every case of the Sale of any tract or tracts of Land aforesaid, by the Commissioners aforesaid; the terms of sale having been first complied with, a Certificate of purchase shall be given by the Commissioners, to the purchaser in the same manner as now are given by School Commissioners in the several Counties of this State upon the sale of any of the School lands, and the said Commissioners and the said Commissioners shall forthwith notify the proper department of State, of any such sale, and a patent shall issue to the purchaser in the same manner as are pattents now issued for school lands sold under existing laws in relation thereto.

Sect 6. The Said Commissioners may and they are hereby authorized to retain out of the amount for which said Lands may sell, the Amount of four per cent, as a compensation for their services as Commissioners, including the trouble and expense of advertising.

Sect 7. This Act to take effect from its passage

Be it an acted by the people of the state of Illinois represented in the general assembly that