Sec.[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That John Turney, Constantine Kentlenback, Edward H. Snow, and John G. Potts, their associates and successors, in the town of Galena, be and they are hereby constituted a body politic and corporate, under the name and style of Wildy Lodge, number five, of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, for the purpose of producing harmony and good fellowship, promoting their common interest, disseminating useful knowledge; to relieve and give succor to the distressed of their own order, and for the general purposes of charity and good feeling, and for no other purpose whatsoever. The said corporation is declared and hereby made capable in law to sue and be sued, plead and (be) impleaded; to have a common seal, and the same to alter and renew at pleasure: Provided, That the said corporation shall not hold more than one acre of ground with the improvements thereon, except such as shall be donated to and for the sole use and behoof of said corporation.2

Approved, February 3, 1840.