Chapter CXXV. concerning the seat of justice in Gallatin county in the state of Illinois
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Chap. CXXV.— An Act concerning the seat of justice in Gallatin county in the state of Illinois. May 20, 1826. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, * State of Illinois to sell in fee simple, to the county of That the state of Illinois is hereby authorized to give or sell, in fee simple, to the county of Gallatin, NINETEENTH CONGRESS, Sess. I. Ch. 126, 127, 128. 1826. 185 in that state, for the purposes of locating and fixing the seat of justice inGallatin, a tract of land. said county, a tract not exceeding one hundred acres of the tract of land, situate in said county, and granted to said state, for the use thereof, by the act of the eighteenth of April, eighteen hundred and eighteen, entitled “An act to enable the people of the Illinois territory to form a constitutionAct of April 1818, ch. 67. 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.