Papers Of Abraham Lincoln

In force, Feb.[February] 27, 1839.

AN ACT respecting section sixteen, in township two south, in range fourteen west, in Edwards county.
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Preamble.

Whereas it is represented to this General Assembly that in the sale, by the school commissioner of Edwards county, of school section number sixteen, in township two south, in range number fourteen west, mistakes occurred in consequence of the misnumbering of the several forty-acre lots into which said section was divided, so that the several purchasers of said lots find themselves disappointed in the location of their respective purchases: Therefore,

School com’r[commissioner] to refund purchase money and notes.

Advertisement and sale of school land.

Proviso.

Sec.[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That the present school commissioner of said county shall return to the several purchasers of lots in said section the several notes executed by them for said lots; and shall then proceed, according to law, to advertise and offer said several lots for sale again to the highest bidders, respectively, without regard to said former sale: Provided, That said purchasers shall have the right of preemption to the respective lots formerly purchased by them according to the true numbers, as understood at said former sale.

Plat vacated.

True plat to be filed.

Sec. 2. The erroneous plat of said school section filed by the trustees of said township is hereby vacated; and the true plat shall be made out and filed in lieu thereof, on the payment by them according to law of the former prices bid by them, respectively, with legal interest thereon from said former sale till paid.

Approved, February 27, 1839.

1On January 29, 1839, Henry J. Mills introduced SB 152 in the Senate. On February 7, the Senate passed the bill. On February 22, the House of Representatives passed the bill. On February 27, the Council of Revision approved the bill and the act became law.
Journal of the House of Representatives of the Eleventh General Assembly of the State of Illinois, at their First Session, Begun and Held in the Town of Vandalia, December 3, 1838 (Vandalia, IL: William Walters, 1838), 367, 408, 419, 483, 534; Journal of the Senate of the Eleventh General Assembly of the State of Illinois, at their First Session, Begun and Held in the Town of Vandalia, December 3, 1838 (Vandalia, IL: William Walters, 1838), 241, 279, 293, 386, 445-46, 452.