of twelve months-the purchaser or purchasers executing a note and mortgage for such balance to said directors.

§ 3. The directors, after such sale, shall make and exe- valid deeds. cute to the purchaser or purchasers a good and valid deed of conveyance, in which said deed shall be incorporated this act; and the moneys derived from said sale, after the payment of the expenses of said sale, shall be applied to and used exclusively for the benefit of said school district, in such manner as the inhabitants of said school district may direct. Said directors shall, immediately after the sale of said premises, deliver to the treasurer of schools of said town the money, note and mortgages derived from the sale aforesaid. The treasurer, or his successor, shall collect said note and mortgage, and shall only pay it out upon order of said directors. The bond given by the school treasurer shall be security for such money, note and mortgage.

4. This act shall be a public act, and take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

APPROVED March 25, 1869.

AN ACT to vacate a portion of the plot of R. Jones' Addition to Rockton, In force June

Winnebago county.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That the plats of R. Jones' Addition to [the town of] Rockton and of all new subdivisions of the same, as recorded in the recorder's office of Winnebago county, be and the same are hereby vacated as to all that part of said addition south of Elizabeth street and west of a street running north and south along the east side of said plat. Said last named street to remain open for use as a public highway forever, as now fenced and traveled.

APPROVED March 29, 1869.

19, 1869.

AN ACT to vacate certain lots in the town of Rusellville, Lawrence county. In force March

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That the numbering, from forty-one to fifty-seven, both inclusive, in the town of Rusellville, Lawrence county, be and the same are hereby vacated.

§ 2. This act to be deemed a public act, and be in force and take effect from and after its passage. APPROVED March 29, 1869.

Vol. IV-56

29, 1869.

In force March AN ACT to vacate certain lots and blocks in the town of Sublette, Lee 20, 1869.

Lots vacated.

county, Illinois.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That the lots and blocks numbered block number seven, eight, nine, sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, nineteen, twenty and twentyone, of the town plat of the town of Sublette, in the county of Lee, and state of Illinois, be and the same are hereby declared to be vacated, and that said lots and blocks shall hereafter be assessed and taxed in the same manner that other lands are required to be assessed and taxed; and the title to the several alleys and streets shall be vested in the owner or owners of said blocks and lots.

§ 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

APPROVED March 30, 1869.

In force March 81, 1869.

AN ACT to vacate the plat of Tioga City.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That that plat of Tioga City, heretofore surveyed and located on the south half of section (7) seven and the north half of section (18) eighteen, township nine (9) north, range five (5) west of the fourth principal meridian, in Henderson county, be and the same is hereby vacated.

2. This act shall be in force and take effect from and after its passage.

APPROVED March 31, 1869.

In force March 25, 1869.

AN ACT to vacate a portion of the town plat of the town of Viola.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That the Groundsvacated whole of the lands platted as depot grounds, being five hundred feet by one thousand feet, and also all lands indicated by marks or lines for railroad tracks, running from said depot grounds, or by lines or marks indicating blocks or parts of blocks not otherwise marked; also, the following streets and avenues, to-wit: Fifth Avenue, Sixth Avenue, that portion of Eighth Avenue running east from the east line of block number eighty-eight and block one hundred, to the east line of said plat; that portion of Ninth

Avenue running east from the east line of blocks number one hundred and one hundred and ten to the east line of said plat; that portion of third street running north between the north half of block number one hundred and ten and the north half of block one hundred and nine, between block one hundred and block one hundred and one, between block eighty-eight and block eighty-seven, to Perkins Avenue, as will appear by the recorded plat of said town of Viola, recorded in the clerk's office of Mercer county, in the state of Illinois, on the 17th day of December, A. D. 1856, in volume U, on page 237, be and the same are hereby vacated,

§ 2. This act shall be deemed a public act, and be in force from and after its passage.

APPROVED March 25, 1869.

AN ACT to vacate the town plat of the town of Williamsport, in the county In force

of Scott.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That the plat of the town of Williamsport, in the county of Scott, be and the same is hereby vacated. APPROVED March 15, 1869.

19, 1869.

June

26, 1869.

AN ACT to legalize certain deeds heretofore made vacating certain blocks in force March in Moore & Kellam's addition to the town of Woodburn, in Macoupin county.

WHEREAS, B. I. Tompkins and Achsah Tompkins, his Preamble. wife, did, on their deed, made on the twelfth day of May, 1855, and recorded in the recorder's office in the county of Macoupin, and state of Illinois, on the first day of June, 1855, in book E E, page 742, attempt to vacate blocks numbered twenty-six (26), thirty-seven (37), and forty-two (42), in Moore and Kellam's addition to the town of Woodburn, in the county of Macoupin, and state of Illinois; and whereas John Grinstead and Mary Grinstead, his wife, and R. R. Tompkins, and Susan Tompkins, his wife, did by their deed, made the twenty-eighth day of May, 1850, and recorded in the recorder's office of said county on the fourth day of August, 1850, in book T, attempt to vacate blocks number thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen and eighteen, in the same addition; and whereas Silas Dodson

Deeds valid.

and Rebecca Dodson, his wife, did, by their deed, made the thirtieth day of May, 1851, and recorded in the recorder's office of said county on the second day of June, 1851, in book S, pages 76 and 77, attempt to vacate block number twenty-four, in the same addition; and whereas Charles B. Barton and Martha H. Barton, his wife, and Hannah Ecrit, did, by their deed, made on the fifteenth day of June, 1855, and recorded in the recorder's office of said county on the fourth day of September, 1855, in book A. A, page 450, attempt to vacate blocks numbered ten and twenty-one, in the same addition; and whereas Silas Dodson and Rebecca Dodson, his wife, did, by their deed, made on the twenty-sixth day of January, 1850, and recorded in the recorder's office of said county on the fourth day of February, 1850, in book T, page 7, attempt to vacate lots number one, two, three, four, nine, ten, eleven and twelve, in block numbered twenty-two (22), and blocks numbered twenty-five (25), thirty-eight (38), and forty-one (41), in Moore and Kellam's addition to the town of Woodburn; and whereas Reuben R. Tompkins and Susan Tompkins, his wife, did, by their deed, made on the tenth day of May, 1856, and recorded in the recorder's office of said county on the fifth day of September, 1851, in book K. K., page 151, attempt to vacate blocks numbered twenty-nine (29), thirty (30), thirtyone, (31), thirty-two (32), thirty-three (33), thirty-four (34), thirty-five (35), forty-four (44), forty-five (45), forty-six (46) and forty-seven (47), and so much of blocks sixteen (16), seventeen (17), and eighteen (18), as is on the north-west quarter of the south-west quarter of section number seventeen (17), in township number seven (7) north, range number eight (8) west of the third P. M., all in Moore and Kellam's addition to the town of Woodburn; therefore,

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That the said deeds of vacation be and the same are hereby declared good and valid in law, and the same are hereby legalized to all intents and purposes.

§ 2. This act is hereby declared a public act, and to be in force from and after its passage.

APPROVED March 26, 1869.

TOWNS-STREETS AND ALLEYS.

AN ACT to vacate certain streets in Plumleigh's addition to the village of In force March Algonquin, McHenry county. 80, 1869.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That the whole of Adams and Monroe streets and so much of Washington street as lies north of the south line of said Monroe street, also so much of Madison street as lies between blocks Nos. six (6) and seven (7), also so much cf Jefferson street as lies north of the north line of lot No. four (4), in block No. eight (8), and lot No. six (6), in block No. four (4), in Plumleigh's addition to the village of Algonquin, in McHenry county, and state of Illinois, be and the same is hereby vacated.

§ 2. This act is declared to be a public act, and shall be in force from and after its passage.

APPROVED March 30, 1869.

AN ACT to vacate a part of Greene street, in the town of Bardolph.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That so much of Greene street as lies between blocks twelve (12) and twenty-one (21), in the town of Bardolph, in the county of McDonough, is hereby declared vacated.

§ 2. This act to take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

APPROVED March 9, 1869.

In force March

9, 1869.

AN ACT to vacate alleys in the town of Benton, county of Franklin.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That the alley running east and west between the lots in Atkin's addition to the town of Benton, in the county of Franklin, also the alley running north and south between the lots in Denning's addition to said town, be and the same are hereby vacated, and the lots on either side of said alleys

In force March 26, 1969.