Whereas it has pleased Divine Providence, to call from existance, certain individuals whilest absent from there families and homes in the discharge of there official duties as members of the General Assembly of the State of Illinois: Therefore,

Sec'[Section] 1 Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois Represented in the General Assembly, That Robert Blackwell be, and he is hereby authorised to enclose with a good substantial paling fence, and to paint the same the graves of William M^cHenry[,] Benjamin A. Clark, John Thompson, J. B. E. Canal and Alexander F Grant, in the Town of Vandalia, and to procure and have placed at the head and feet of each of the graves above mentioned Tomb stones, and to have ingraved on the stone placed at the head, the name of the person at whose grave it stands with the discription of the office the same may have held as Senator[,] Representative or Judge as the case may have been, the date of the death and age

Sec 2. The said Robert Blackwell, shall keep an account, of the cost of the fenceing and stones described in the first section of this act, and present the same to the Auditor of Public accounts, who is hereby authorised to draw his warrant on the Treasurer in favour of said Robert Blackwell for the amount of said account, Provided said account shall not exceed the sum of Two hundred Dollars.