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Public Law 19–CXXV
concerning the seat of justice in Gallatin county in the state of Illinois.
Approved May 20, 1826
Statutory text
An Act
concerning the seat of justice in Gallatin county in the state of Illinois.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled,
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. in that state, for the purposes of locating and fixing the seat of justice in
Gallatin, 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 constitution
Act 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, .