Sec.[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That all sales heretofore made by county commissioners of the county of La Salle, of lots, or parts of lots, in block number eleven in the original town of Ottawa, in said county, be, and the same hereby are ratified and confirmed, and declared to be good and valid in law and equity, any act heretofore passed, or any map or record declaring or describing said block as a public square to the contrary notwithstanding.

Sec. 2. Be it further enacted, That so much of said block number eleven as remains unsold, being the west half of the same, shall be and remain a public square.

Sec. 3. Be it further enacted, That the county commissioners’ court of La Salle county, be, and it is hereby authorized to employ a competent person to make a complete index to the records in the recorder’s office of said county; there shall be an index of the names of the grantors and of the grantees, and also, of the tracts or parcels of land, and the recorder of said county, after said index or indexes shall be so made, is hereby required to keep the same in that manner, without additional compensation. The said person so employed, shall take an oath faithfully to perform the duties herein required of him, which may be taken before the clerk of the county commissioners’ court, and shall be filed in the office of said clerk. The county commissioners’ court is hereby authorized to pay the person so to be employed, a reasonable compensation, out of any money in the treasury of said county not otherwise appropriated.2

Approved, February 23, 1841.