Sec[Section] 1 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois represented in the General Assembly That the county Surveyor of the County of Jefferson taking to his aid at least two other competent Surveyors, be and he is hereby authorised and required to resurvey agreeably to the original plat thereof, the Town of Mount Vernon in Said County, and to ascertain the beginning corner, (said to be the North East corner of the public square) and mark the same by a durable monuments, and from thence to survey and mark with stakes or stones, the lots, Squares, Streets, and alleys of said Town.

Sec 2 Previous to or in connection with said Survey, the said Surveyors shall resolve themselves into a Board of Inquiry, and shall take an oath faithfully and impartially to perform the duties enjoined upon them by this act, and shall then proceed to summon all the citizens of said town, and such others of the County, as they may see proper, who shall have resided therein for as least ten years next preceeding the passage of this act, and them to examine on oath, touching any known corner or point, of the original survey of said town, keeping minutes of such testimony, and of their proceedings generally, and when they shall have satisfied themselves in respect to a beginning corner, and completed a resurvey of said town, upon the original lines and corners thereof, or as near thereto as practicable from the evidence so taken by them, they shall make out and sign a report of their proceedings and return the same, with descriptive notes of corners, courses, bearings, distances &c to the Clerk of the county commissioners court of said county

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by whom the same shall be filed and carefully preserved for future reference.

Sec 3 The said resurvey, when so made as aforesaid, or properly authenticated copies thereof, shall be deemed prima facie evidence of the boundaries or corners of lots, squares, streets, and alleys of said town, in all courts or other places when the same may or shall be drawn in question

Sec 4 The said surveyors shall be paid out of the corporation Treasury of said town, the sum of two dollars each per day for their services under this act, and all the expenses attending the execution of this act shall be paid in like manner.