United States Statutes at Large/Volume 4/19th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 125
Chap. CXXV.—An Act concerning the seat of justice in Gallatin county in the state of Illinois.
State of Illinois to sell in fee simple, to the county of Gallatin, a tract of land.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the state of Illinois is hereby authorized to give or sell, in fee simple, to the county of Gallatin, in the state, for the purposes of locating and fixing the seat of justice in said county, a tract not exceeding one hundred acres of the tract of land, sitaute in said county, and granted to said state, for the use thereof, by the act of the eighteenth of April, eighteen hundred and eighteen, entitledAct of April 1818, ch. 67. “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,” any restriction in said act of Congress to the contrary notwithstanding.
Approved, May 20, 1826.