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02/14/1834
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02/14/1834
I Certify that the foregoing is a correct plat and field Notes for section sixteen in Township 18 N Range 6 West as surveyed by me
Feby 14 1834A. Lincoln for J CalhounS.[Surveyor] S. C.
| N. B.[Nota Bene] The distance from | 3 | to | 5 | 39. | chains | 81 | Links | ||
| 5 | to | 15 | — | 40 | " | 8 | " | ||
| 15 | " | 25 | — | 40 | -"- | 10 | — | " | |
| 25 | " | 23 | — | 40 | -"- | 10 | — | " | |
| 23 | " | 21 | — | 39 | -"- | 85 | " | ||
| 21 | " | 11 | — | 40 | -"- | 13 | — | " | |
| 11 | " | 1 | — | 40 | -"- | 00 | " |
1The land described here is located in the center of present-day Menard County.
In 1818, when Congress passed the act enabling the Illinois Territory to become a state, it granted to every township in the state the proceeds of the
sale of land in each township’s Section 16. This money became known as the common
school fund.
“An Act to Enable the People of the Illinois Territory to Form a Constitution and
State Government, and for the Admission of Such State into the Union on an Equal Footing
with the Original States,” 18 April 1818, Statutes at Large of the United States, 3:428-31; W. L. Pillsbury, “Early Education in Illinois,” in Sixteenth Biennial Report of the Superintendent of Public Instruction of the State
of Illinois (Springfield, IL: H. W. Rokker, 1886), 106-07.
Handwritten Transcription, 1 page(s), School Land Sale Record, 1831-1854, p. 63, Illinois Regional Archives Depository, University of Illinois Springfield (Springfield, Illinois),