Sec[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois represented in the General Assembly, That David Holliday of Jackson County be, and he is hereby appointed Commissioner of “the Muddy Saline” in the aforesaid county of Jackson, to sell and dispose of a portion, and to lease the residue of the land in the Saline reserve in said County as hereinafter provided, and the said commissioner shall on or before the first day of May next, enter into bond with good and sufficient security, to be approved of by the County Commissioners of the aforesaid county, in the Sum of two thousand dollars, to the people of the State of Illinois, conditioned that he will fully account for and pay over all moneys, which may come to his hands by reason of his said office, and that he will fully account for and hand over to his Successor in office, all bonds[,] papers[,] vouchers, and other property of the State that may come into his hands by virtue of this act, and generally that he will faithfully do and perform all the duties enjoined upon him by this act: which bond shall be entered of record on the records of the County Commissioners’ Court of the aforesaid County, and transmitted to and filed in the Office of the Secretary of State.

Sec 2. The said commissioner shall, as soon as may be have the said saline reserve lands subdivided by accurate Survey into lots of a Suitable size not exceeding in any case forty acres, and shall cause to made out from such

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survey, a map or plat of said reserve, noting thereon the section, township[,] and range of said lands, and designating the said lots by number; and the said plat the said commissioner shall acknowledge, and cause to be recorded in the record books of the Recorder of the aforesaid County, provided that the lot on which the Salt well is situated, shall not contain more than ten acres of land, and that the said salt well shall be as near as practicable to the centre of said lot

Sec 3. The said commissioner is hereby authorized and empowered to Sell to Stephen Holliday, and Joseph Sorrells each forty acres of said land, including the residence and improvements of the said Holliday and Sorrells respectively, for the sum of one dollar and twenty five cents per acre, at any time before the first day of June 1842 next; and if the said Holliday or Sorrells or Either of them shall pay to the said Commissioner in cash, the sum hereby acquired for this Said land the said commissioner shall thereupon make and deliver to each of said persons, or to Either of them by whom such payment shall be made, a certificate of Sale describing particularly the number, description[,] and situation of Each ^lot^ to whom sold and for what ^price^ and the auditor of public accounts on the said certificate, being filed in his office, shall make and Execute to the holder thereof a patent for the land therein described provided that the right of preemption to said land shall not be vested in Either the said Holliday or Sorrells, longer than until the first day of ^June 1842^ next, and if the said forty acre tracts of land, or Either of them on which the said Holliday

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and Sorrells respectively reside, should not be paid for by the said Holliday & Sorrells, or Either of them ^on or before the said first day of June 1842 next^ the Same shall be subject to be leased in the manner hereinafter provided for leasing the residue of the said lands.

Sec. 4. The said Commissioner shall be authorized to lease any or Either of the lots into which the said Saline reserve shall be subdivided, for a term of years not exceeding in any case ten years, to such person or persons, and for such price and on Such terms, as to the said Commissioner may seem just and proper; and whenever any such lot shall be leased by the said commissioner as herein provided for, it shall be the duty of the said commissioner and [...?], to execute duplicate copies of such lease, setting forth the terms thereof, and providing against any undue and improper waste of, or trespassing upon the said land one copy of which shall be delivered to said lessee and the other transcribed into a suitable and well bound book to be kept in the office of the Said Commissioner, and then filed in the office of the Secretary of State.

Sec 5^th that If any person or persons Shall be Desireous to engage in any new Discovery of Salt watter on said Big Muddy Reserve it shall be the duty of said commissioner to authorize such person, or persons to undertake the Same, who on making such discovery shall be entitled under the provisions of this act, to all the use, benefit[,] & profits, of such discovery in the manufactory of salt free of charge or lease for the term of ten years, at the end of which term such person, or persons making such discovery shall surrender to the State all interest, & concern in such manufactory of

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salt, that the said State could rightfully be entitled to, except as hereinafter provided by law.

Sec 6. All timber, or as much thereof as may be necessary with such other privileges & immunities as may belong to said Reserve, are hereby declared to be for the benefit of such lessee, or lessees, as may undertake the manufactory of Salt under the provisions of this act, or to any person or persons who may engage in the discovery of Salt water

Sec 7. Said Commissioner shall pay over into the State Treasury to be appropriated according to law all moneys that may be received by him under the provisions of this act

Sec 8. Said Commissioner shall receive as a compensation for Services actually rendered performed under the provisions of this act not exceeding two dollars per day for every day that he may actually be engaged in the performance of such Services, to be proved by competent & disinterested testimony, or by the certificate of said [superintendent?] commissioner