An act for the relief of Timothy Guard and William Hick.

Whereas by the act of the 16^th of January, 1836, entitled “An act relating to the Gallatin Saline, and the lands belonging to the same,” a pre-emption right to a part of the fraction of land, on which the said Timothy Guard’s Furnace stood, not exceeding Four acres, was granted to him at fifty cents per acre, for the purpose of erecting thereon a Steam Mill: and whereas the said Guard and William Hick, the present proprietors of said four acres, have, in the erection of a large Steam Mill on said tract, placed the same a few feet over the line of a correct survey of said pre-emption tract, on land belonging to the state, being misled, as they represent, by the late County Surveyor of Gallatin county: and whereas the said four acres, was laid off, by said former surveyor upon the a line running parallel with the saline creek, without reaching to lower water mark of said creek, Therefore:

Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That it shall be lawful for the said Guard and Hick to surrender the patent held by them for the said Four acres to which a pre-emption right was granted to by the act aforesaid, to said Guard, and to resurvey and relocate their said four acres, so that the same shall extend to low water mark of the Saline Creek, & include their said Mill. Provided,

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that the line of said new survey shall not extend more than 75 feet west, of the west line of said mill, and shall not have not run north further than the former survey of said four acres, as laid off by said former county surveyor.

Sec[Section]. 2. It shall be the duty of the commissioner of Sales of Saline lands in Gallatin county to receive the report of the present Surveyor of the new location of said four acres, and to grant a certificate of purchase to the said Guard and Hick for the new survey of said four acres, and on the return of the same, with the former patent which has issued for the said land as formerly surveyed, it shall be the duty of the Auditor to cancel said former patent, and cause a new patent to issue to the said Guard & Hick for the said four acres as relocated under this act.