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 favor 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;2 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 twelve, one thousand eight hundred and thirty five, 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 the said

---

township for the same; Provided, That the lands authorized to be selected by this act, shall not consist of any part of the reservation made under the act of one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, for the manufactory of salt at the Gallatin saline, nor embrace the salt wells.

Approved, February 26, 1841.