Resolved by the General Assembly of the State of Illinois, That our Senators in Congress be instructed, and our Representatives requested, to use their influence to procure the passage of a law by Congress granting to the head of every family who has no lands in these United States, one hundred and sixty acres of land out of any unsold land belonging to the General Government, and that he or she, the taker up, shall make his or her entry at the land office in the district in which land may be, and that the same be patented to the taker up, and that the same shall be and remain a home for him or her and their heirs forever, and the said one hundred and sixty acres of land or the title thereof with its appurtenance shall ever be and remain exempt from execution in any case whatsoever.