Sec.[section] 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That James H. G. Wilcox and William McBean, proprietors of Metropolis City, in the county of Johnson, be and the same are hereby authorized to extend and add to the front of blocks number five and six, in said city, so much of Front street as will bring the front of said blocks in a direct line with the front of blocks number one, two, three and four, agreeable to the original plat of said city; thence, by a line from the south-west corner of block number six, west fifty degrees and twenty minutes north, to the east side of Johnson street, which shall be the boundry line of the north side of Front street. Also, First street, in said city, is hereby laid over and permanently established eighty feet fur-

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ther north than the present location, and the width thereof is hereby reduced ten feet; the land so thrown off and the ten feet deducted from the width of First street, being in all ninety feet, is hereby added to the lots and blocks on the south side of said First street, to wit: Blocks number one, two, three, four, five and six, and blocks number thirty-nine and forty— the two latter blocks being created by the abovenamed alterations—the whole to be divided by a line in the centre, making all the lots, on either side of said line, equal in depth, from block number one to block number six; thence west, through blocks number thirty-nine and forty, as the proprietors of said city may deem proper. Also, First Minor street, in said city, is hereby reduced, in width, ten feet—said ten feet to be taken off the south side of said Minor street; and the land thus thrown off, is hereby added to the lots on the south side of said street. By the above alterations, the width of First Minor street is fixed at fourteen feet; the depth of lots between First Minor street and First street, at eighty feet; the width of First street, at seventy feet, including side walks, of ten feet each; the whole depth of blocks, between Front and First street, at one hundred and forty feet, from block number one to block number six; and blocks number thirty-nine and forty, as shall be hereafter recorded, by the above named proprietors of said city. The said proprietors are hereby authorized to make the above alterations: Provided, It shall be incumbent on the said proprietors to procure the assent, in writing, to said alterations, from the purchasers of lots in said city; which, together with a plat, showing the alterations and additions, shall be recorded in the recorder’s office of Johnson county.

Approved, February 24, 1841.