Sec[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois represented in the General Assembly; That it shall be the duty of the Governor to issue a patent in favour of the inhabitants of Township nine South Range eight East, for the following described
premises to wit: South half North West quarter, the South West quarter, and the South
half of the South East quarter of section eleven Township nine ^south^, Range eight East; which said lands were selected under and by virtue of an act of
the Legislature entitled an “Act concerning Equality Township in Gallatin County” approved February 12th 1835, and for which no deed has yet been issued by the Governor
Sec 2. It may be lawful for the School Trustees of the before mentioned Township, to
select any lands not sold in the Gallatin saline reserve, sufficient to make up the sum of Six hundred and forty acres, belonging to the said
Township under the act referred to, and when the said Trustees shall have made such
selection, they shall make out a report of their proceedings, and after having sworn
to the same before some competent officer, they shall cause the same without delay
to be filed in the office of the auditor of public accounts, for which patents shall
also be issued by the Governor to
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the said Township for the same Provided that the lands hereby authorized to be selected by this act, shall not consist of any part of the reservation
made under the act of 1836 for the manufactory of salt at the Gallatin Saline, nor embrace the Salt Wells
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A Bill for an Act for the benefit of the Inhabitants of Town nine South Range eight East in Gallatin County
A Bill for an Act for the benefit of the Inhabitants of Town nine South Range eight East in Gallatin County
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Handwritten Document, 4 page(s), Folder 367, SB 177, GA Session 12-2,
Illinois State Archives (Springfield, IL) ,