Chapter LVI. confirming the proceedings of the inhabitants of the village of Cahokia, in the State of Illinois, in laying out a town on the commons of said village
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Chap. LVI.— An Act confirming the proceedings of the inhabitants of the village of Cahokia, in the State of Illinois, in laying out a town on the commons of said village. May 1, 1820. *Be it enacted, &c., * That the proceedings of the inhabitants of the Proceedings of inhabitants of Cahokia, in laying out Illinois city and distributing lots, confirmed.1812, ch. 22.village of Cahokia, in the state of Illinois, by their agents, Jesse B. Thomas, John Hay, John Hays, Nicholas Jarrot, and Francis Turcotte, in laying out a town called Illinois city, on one of the tracts of land confirmed to them as a common, by an act of Congress, passed on the twentieth February, one thousand eight hundred and twelve, and the distribution made by the said agents, of the lots amongst the inhabitants of said village of Cahokia, be, and the same are hereby, confirmed.
Sec. 2. J. B. Thomas and others authorized to convey the lots distributed by deed in fee simple. *And be it further enacted, *That the said Jesse B. Thomas, John Hay, John Hays, Nicholas Jarrot, and Francis Turcotte, or any three of them, be, and they are hereby, authorized to convey, by deed, in fee simple, the lots that have heretofore been distributed as aforesaid, to those persons, or their legal representatives, to whom distribution as aforesaid was made. Approved, May 1, 1820.