county, to Kinderhook, as is situated between New Philadelphia and Kinderhook. SEC. 2. Said commissioners, or a majority of them, shall Time & place meet at Worcester, on the first Monday in April next, or of meeting within sixty days thereafter, and after being duly sworn by some justice of the peace to faithfully discharge their duties agreeably to the provisions of this act, shall proceed to review and locate that part of said road, situated as aforesaid. SEC. 3. The said commissioners shall, within thirty days after having relocated said road, make report in writing, and file a copy of the same, in the office of the clerk of the county commissioners' court in Pike county. Report in writing SEC. 4. When said road is relocated, it shall be opened and kept in repair. The county commissioners of Pike Pay of com'rs county shall allow said commissioners, and others employed in relocating said road, such a compensation as they may deem just and equitable. APPROVED, Feb. 1, 1840. In force, Feb. 3, 1840. Co. comr's of White may remove milldam AN ACT concerning the Little Wabash river. SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That the county commissioners' court of White county is hereby authorized to remove the mill-dam across the Little Wabash river, purchased by the State, if to the said court it shall appear advisable so to do. APPROVED, February 3, 1840. In force, Feb. 3, 1840. Court in Bond Judge of Clinton circuit court may ors der venue Clinton circuit court AN ACT regulating the time of holding the court in the counties of SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That the next term of the Bond circuit court shall be held on the fifth Monday of March, 1840, and all process, suits, and recognizances which have been or may be issued or entered into, and made returnable to, the said court, as at present arranged, shall be taken and considered to be returnable to the time fixed by this act, and shall be valid to all intents and purposes. SEC. 2. That the judge of the circuit court of Clinton county may order a venire for any number of talismen that he may think at the next term of the said court. This proper, act to take effect from and after its passage; and the Spring term of the Clinton circuit court shall continue two weeks. APPROVED, February 3, 1840. AN ACT to authorise the trustees of schools in township eight north, range five east, to refund certain moneys. In force, Feb. 1, 1840. oria to yay over moneys SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That the trustees of Trustees of schools, in township number eight north, of range five east, of schools in Pethe fourth principal meridian, in the county of Peoria, be, and they are hereby, authorized to pay over to the purchasers of section number sixteen of said township, any amount of money the said purchaser may have over-paid, by reason of the said section or any part thereof having fallen short in quantity, from what the said section or any such division may have been supposed to contain at the time of sale. APPROVED, February 1, 1840. AN ACT in relation to the Charleston Seminary and Jonesboro' College. In force, Feb. 3, 1840. SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That the trustees of the Trustees of Charleston Seminary shall hold their offices until the first Mon- Charleston day in May next, and until their successors are elected and Seminary qualified. SEC. 2. That an election shall be held at the seminary on the first Monday in May next, and every four years thereafter, Time of elecfor seven trustees to said seminary, who shall hold their offi- tion ces for four years, and until their successors are elected and qualified. SEC. 3. Every person who shall have subscribed and paid Who entitled five dollars, or who may hercafter subscribe and pay five dol- to vote lars, shall be entitled to a vote for said trustees, and for every additional ten dollars so subscribed and paid in, [or] which may hereafter be subscribed and paid, an additional vote; which right to vote may be transferred. The trustees shall keep a record of the names of the donors, and the amount donated, Records and the names of the persons that such privilege is transferred to. SEC. 4. The trustees shall have power to make such rules Powers and regulations in regard to the manner of holding elections, and determining upon who shall be elected, as they may think proper; and to make such other rules and regulations for said seminary, as they may deem expedient. They shall keep a journal of their official acts, and may confer such degrees as are conferred by other institutions of learning. SEC. 5. The seminary shall not be used as a house of pub- Seminary, lic worship, and no pupil excluded on account of his religious how used opinions. SEC. 6. The school commissioner of Coles county is hereby Duty of authorized and required to pay to the order of the president school comp's and trustees of the Charleston Seminary two hundred dollars of Coles co. members per year, out of the distributive share of the State fund, for purposes of education, to the county of Coles; and the said trustees are hereby authorized to expend said money in such manner as they may think proper for the use and benefit of said seminary. SEC. 7. Two-thirds of the trustees shall have power to exExpulsion of pel any member of said board of trustees for mal-conduct, and fill any vacancy which may occur from any cause whatever. And the provisions of this act shall apply to the Jonesborough College in all respects whatever, on condition that a majority of the qualified voters of said town of Jonesborough shall signify their willingness to the same by a vote of said town, on or before the first day of June next. APPROVED, February 3, 1840. Jonesboro' college In force, Feb. 3, 1840. ded. Land Co. AN ACT supplemental to an act entitled "an act to incorporate the SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That the Quincy House Capital stock Company be, and the same are hereby authorized and emmay be exten-powered to add to the capital stock of said Company, at any time before the first day of January, 1841, by a purchase of all the lands, tenements, hereditaments and appurtenances held by the Illinois Land Company, all of which said lands having been heretofore conveyed by sundry persons, to Charles F. Moulton, Daniel Low, David H. Nevins, John N. Gossler, Lands of Ills. John W. Leavitt, Joseph L. Joseph, Samuel S. Lewis, Amos Binnoy, James C. Dunn, Joseph Swift, Lemuel Lamb, Charles Atwater, and James B. Danforth; also to Lemuel Lamb, and Thomas Dunlap, at such price, and on such terms as the said Quincy House Company, and the Trustees and Directors on behalf of the Illinois Land Company may think proper to contract, which lands were purchased of sundry individuals by the said trustees and directors, and are situate in the State of Illinois, and constitute the joint interest of the Illinois Land Company, of which company John Tillson jr., is their general agent. Additional stock SEC. 2. Upon the purchase of the lands and other property belonging to the Illinois Land Company, by the Quincy House Company, the said Quincy House Company may issue fifteen thousand shares of additional stock of one hundred dollars each, and the lands so purchased shall all be disposed of by said company on or before the first day of January, A. D. Sales of lands 1848, first offering the same at public sale at the office in Quincy, Illinois, giving at least sixty days previous notice of such sale by advertisement in at least four of the public newspapers printed in this State, and that certain portions of said land, not less than one-eighth of the quantity they may own, shall be brought into market in each and every year, until all shall have been disposed of by the company, and that the minimum price at the public sale shall not exceed the government price, though after the public sale is over, all of said lands remaining unsold may be disposed of at any price, and on such terms as the said company may think proper. Deeds and papers may SEC. 3. All deeds and documents of every kind, relating to the title of any property that may be conveyed to the Quincy House Company as aforesaid, and that may be found in anywise requisite to place on record, in order to show a more perfect chain of title to any portion of the property so be recorded in held by them, may be recorded in the recorder's office of the Adams co. county of Adams; and it shall not be requisite to record said deeds or documents in any other county in this State. ture SEC. 4. The Legislature reserve the right, after the first Right_reservday of January 1848, to investigate the books and papers of ed to Legislathe Quincy House Company, and to call upon the officers for any information they may wish for, in reference to a final disposition, by said company, of all the lands and other property conveyed to them by the trustees and directors of the Illinois Land Company, and to reduce the capital stock of the said Quincy House Company to the original capital of one hundred thousand dollars; and require them to confine their operations exclusively to the management of the same, and the business necessarily connected therewith. SEC. 5. Should the Illinois Land Company accept the provisions of this act, and consent to a sale of their property to the Quincy House Company, they shall signify their acceptance of the same by an instrument of writing under the hand and seal of John Tillson jr., the general agent, which said acceptance shall be filed with the secretary of the Board of Directors of the Quincy House Company, and by him entered upon the records of said company. Said secretary shall make out and certify a copy of said acceptance, and transmit the same to the Auditor of Public Accounts, to be by him filed and preserved in his office. SEC. 6. The corporate existence of the said Quincy House Existence of Company shall wholly cease at the termination of twenty Co. Quincy years from the passage of this act. APPROVED, February 3, 1840. AN ACT to alter a certain State road in Fayette county. In force, Feb. 1, 1840 Road chang ed SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That so much of the State road leading from Greenville to Shelbyville, as lies in Fayette county, be, and the same is hereby, changed as follows: leaving the old road at Mathew Pope's line, in section twenty-nine, Alteration running thence fifty-eight rods to said Pope's corner; thence, 2 north-east ninety-three rods, so as to intersect the old road at Jonathan Cooke's line, in section twenty-one, township eight north, range one west of the third principal meridian; any law to the contrary notwithstanding. SEC. 2. The county commissioners of Fayette county may, Road may be at their March term, make an order for the relocation of said relocated road, as described in the first section of this act, and when so surveyed and located, shall be declared a State road, and kept in repair as other public roads in this State. Said court is expenses which may Expenses how hereby authorized to pay all reasonable be incurred in the relocation of said road. paid APPROVED, February 1, 1840. In force, Feb. 3, 1840. AN ACT for the benefit of Wildy Lodge in the town of Galena. SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That John Turney, Constantine Kentlenback, Edward H. Snow, and John G. Body politic Potts, their associates and successors, in the town of Galena, and corporate be and they are hereby constituted a body politic and corpoName & style rate, under the name and style of Wildy Lodge, number five, of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, for the purpose of producing harmony and good fellowship, promoting their common interest, disseminating useful knowledge; to relieve and give succor to the distressed of their own order, and for the general purposes of charity and good feeling, and for no other purpose whatsoever. The said corporation is declared and hereby made capable in law to sue and be sued, plead and [be] impleaded; to have a common seal,and the same to alter and renew at pleasure: Provided, That the said corporation shall not hold more than one acre of ground with the improvements thereon, except such as shall be donated to and for the sole use and behoof of said corporation. APPROVED, February 3, 1840. Objects Powers. Proviso. In force, Dec 10, 1839. AN ACT to vacate certain alleys in the town of Winnebago. SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That so much of those alleys in the town of Winnebago, as run through block one, block 1 & 40, and block forty of said town, be, and the same are hereby vacated: Provided, That the consent of the owners of lots on said alleys shall first be obtained. Alleys in vacated Proviso. Certificate of This bill having been laid before the Council of Revision, and ten days not having intervened before the adjournment of the General Assembly, and said bill not having been returned with the objections of the council on the first day of the present session of the General Assembly, the same has become a law. Given under my hand this 10th day of December, 1839. A. P. FIELD, Secretary of State. |