United States Statutes at Large/Volume 4/21st Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 41
[Obsolete.]
Chap. XLI.—An Act for the relief of the citizens of Shawneetown.[1]
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That it shall and may be lawful for any purchaser, the assignee or legal representative of any purchaser, Certain purchasers entitled to re-enter certain lots.of any in or out-lot or lots in the town of Shawneetown in the state of Illinois, which lot or lots may have reverted for the non-payment of the purchase money, to re-enter the same lot or lots which may have so reverted, with the register and receiver of the district of Shawneetown, at any time within six months after the passage of this act, upon the following terms and conditions, to wit:Conditions. by paying, in addition to what has heretofore been paid upon each in-lot, five dollars, and upon each out-lot, one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre.
Grant to trustees, of all vacant grounds, &c.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That there be, and hereby is, granted to the trustees of the town of Shawneetown, and their successors in office, for ever, in trust, to sell, or otherwise dispose of, for the purpose of graduating and paving the river bank within the limits of said town, all the vacant ground not necessary for streets, all the in or out-lots within the bounds of said town, which remain unsold, and all such as may remain unsold under the provisions of the first section of this act; this act to be carried into effect under the direction of the commissioner of the general land office.
Approved, March 2, 1831.
- ↑ An act concerning Shawneetown, vol. iii. p. 113. Instalments due on certain lots in Shawneetown remitted, vol. iii. p. 778.