In force Feb.[February] 23, 1841.
An ACT to authorize the sale of streets, in Hillsboro’.
1Co. comm’rs to sell streets.
Sec.[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That the county commissioners, of the county of Montgomery, be authorized and required, so soon as may be, to sell, at public sale, on such terms as they may prescribe, the street, in the
town of Hillsboro’, sixty feet by one hundred and twenty, lying between lots number twenty on the north
and twenty-nine and thirty on the south; and also, the correspondent street, on the
east of Main street, and due east of the street first named; and to convey said streets
to the purchaser or purchasers thereof, as other lots in said town.
Streets to be laid off in lots & numbered.
Proviso.
Assent of citizens to be recorded.
Sec. 2. Said county commissioners shall, before the sale and conveyance of said streets,
as aforesaid, number said streets as lots, and add them to the plan or map of said town of Hillsboro’: Provided, That no sale, as above stated shall take place, unless the citizens of said town, immediately interested, shall assent to the same, in writing—which shall be signed
by said persons, and recorded in the recorder’s office of said county.
Approved, February 23, 1841.
1After being introduced by an unknown person on an unknown date to the House of Representatives, the House referred HB Misc 3 to the Committee on State Roads. The committee reported back on February 5, 1841,
and recommended an amendment, to which the House concurred. The House passed the bill
on February 10. The Senate passed the bill on February 13. The Council of Revision approved the bill on February 23 and the act became law.
Illinois House Journal. 1840. 12th G. A., 333, 349, 361, 404, 461, 466, 494; Illinois Senate Journal. 1840. 12th G. A., 289, 307, 314.
Printed Document, 1 page(s), Laws of the State of Illinois, Passed by the Twelfth General Assembly (Springfield, IL: William Walters, 1841), 313, GA Session 12-2,