Sec.[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That all persons who made purchases of lots and land of the Commissioners of the Illinois and Michigan canal, in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, shall be permitted to pay for said lots and land under and according to the provisions of the act, passed at the present session of the General Assembly, entitled “An act to amend the several laws in relation to the Illinois and Michigan canal.” All such purchasers shall be permitted to surrender their certificates of purchase, and obtain new certificates; and have their notes or bonds cancelled, and execute new notes for the balance due, without paying ten per cent. in advance at the time of the surrender and cancelment. By the new notes they shall be bound to pay six per cent. per annum interest on the amount due, for twenty years, and then to pay the principal; and all the provisions of the act above recited shall be applicable to said purchasers, and their rights and liabilities shall be regulated and defined by the act aforesaid. The provisions of this act shall not in any manner affect the lien of the State upon the lots and lands and all improvements thereon for the payment of the purchase money; and purchasers who avail themselves of the provisions of this act shall hold the lots and lands, subject to all the conditions in the act aforesaid.

Sec. 2. The provisions of this act shall extend to heirs, devisees, and assignees of purchasers.

Sec. 3. In making the valuation of improvements upon canal lands under the law authorizing their valuation, the standard or rule of estimation shall not be what the improvements cost, nor what the making of such improvements would cost, at the date of valuation, but the estimate shall be the addition which the improvements make to the value of the land.

Sec. 4. In making the selections of lands to be sold whereon improvements are situated, the selections shall be confined to lands occupied or cultivated by persons having permits to occupy or cultivate the same.

Sec. 5. The Canal Commissioners shall be permitted to purchase the lots in Lockport, at their valuation, on which they have erected dwellings, and make payment therefor under and according to the provisions of the act recited in the first section of this act. The purchase shall extend to the improvements; and the cost of the improvements shall be paid without reference to their valuation. The lots shall be valued with reference to their actual value at the date of making improvements thereon, by the commissioners, having regard to the terms of sale.

Sec. 6. The valuation of said lots shall be made by three or more of the assessors appointed by the circuit court of Will county, or the judge thereof, and they shall make dupli-

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cate certificates of their valuation; one shall be filed with the secretary of the Board of Canal Commissioners, and the other with the clerk of the circuit court of Will county.

Sec. 7. The first section of this act shall continue in force one year; the fifth and sixth sections six months, and no longer.

Sec. 8. The Board of Canal Commissioners shall pay to William B. Archer, Gurdon S. Hubbard, and William F. Thornton, five dollars per day each, for the time they were detained in Vandalia on business connected with the canal during the session of the General Assembly which commenced on the first Monday in December, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, after the expiration of their term of their service as Canal Commissioners.

Sec. 9. Forfeited lots in Chicago and Ottawa on which houses have been erected, or which are occupied by purchasers, their heirs or assigns, shall be reserved from sale until further provision shall be made by law.

Approved, March 2, 1839.