United States Statutes at Large/Volume 4/20th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 107
Chap. CVII.—An Act to authorize the legislature of the state of Illinois to sell and convey a part of the land reserved and granted to said state for the use of the Ohio Saline.
Legislature of the state of Illinois authorized, &c., to cause to be sold, &c., a part or parts of the tract of land reserved and granted to said state for the use of salt works.
Proviso.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the legislature of the state of Illinois be, and is hereby, authorized and empowered to cause to be sold and conveyed in such manner, and on such terms and conditions, as said legislature shall by law direct, such part or parts of the tract of land reserved and granted to said state, for the use and support of the salt works, known by the name of the Ohio Saline, in the county of Gallatin, in the said state, and to apply the proceeds of such sale to such objects as the said legislature may by law hereafter direct: Provided, That the legislature shall not sell and convey more than thirty thousand acres of land reserved and granted for the use of the Saline aforesaid.
Approved, May 24, 1828.