inserting the word "May" in its place. This act to be in force from and after its passage. APPROVED, March 4th, 1843. AN ACT to change the name of the town of Saratoga, in the county of Union. In force, Jan. 21, 1843. SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, Saratoga represented in the General Assembly, That the word Western changed to be and the same is hereby added to the name of the town of Western SarSaratoga, situated in the county of Union, and State of Illi- atoga nois, and the name of the said town is hereby declared to be Western Saratoga. APPROVED, January 21st, 1843. AN ACT to re-locate First street, in the town of St. Charles, in Kane county. In force, Jan. 24, 1843. SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois represented in the General Assembly, That Darwin Millington, Com'rs to reElisha Freeman, and Leonard Howard, be and are hereby locate street appointed commissioners to review and re-locate a part of First street, in St. Charles, Kane county, on the west side of Fox river. SEC. 2. Said commissioners, or any two of them, shall meet Time & place in the town of St. Charles on the first Monday in April next, of meeting or some other day thereafter, and after having been duly To be sworn sworn by some justice of the peace to the faithful discharge of their duty, as required by this act, shall proceed to review and re-locate said First street as follows, to wit: beginning Street how fifty-five feet south of the corner of Main and First streets, re-located thence running north-west across the north-east corner of lot number four, in block number thirty-nine, as described on the recorded town plat of said town of St. Charles, until it strikes Main street twenty-two feet from the corner of Main and First streets. SEC. 3. After said commissioners shall have located said Map to be street, as provided for in the foregoing section, they shall made and returned to remake out a map of the same and return said map to the office corder's of of the recorder of Kane county, which map shall be recorded fice by the said recorder; and every thing relative to said map shall be done in accordance with an act entitled "an act providing for the recording of town plats," approved February 27th, 1833; Provided, that it shall not be necessary for the Proviso county surveyor to survey the same, but that the certificate of the said commissioners shall be sufficient to entitle the same to record. SEC. 4. All parts of the present streets that are changed ent streets vacated Parts of pres- by the said commissioners shall, after the re-location of and opening of the said new location, be vacated, and said street when so located shall be and remain a public street, and shall be opened and kept in repair as other public streets are. APPROVED, January 24th, 1843. In force, AN ACT to vacate the alleys in William H. Reed's, Thomas W. Lilly's, Feb. 2, 1843. and William Elliott's addition to the town of Olney, in Richland county. cated SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, Cert in alleys represented in the General Assembly, That all the alleys in the in Olney va- additions to the town of Olney, in Richland county, made by William H. Reed, Thomas W. Lilly, and William Elliott, be and the same are hereby vacated, and the said alleys appropriated in equal proportions to the lots being contiguous; Provided, the assent of the owners of lots shall first be obtained, which assent shall be obtained in writing, and recorded in the recorder's office of Richland county; And provided further, that the alleys in either of said additions shall be vacated whenever the owners of lots in said addition shall assent thereto in writing; which written assent shall be recorded in the recorder's office of Richland county. Proviso APPROVED, February 2d, 1843. In force, AN ACT to authorise S. J. Chapman to add an addition to the town of Feb. 2, 1843. Vienna, in Johnson county. Addition to town of Vi. enna autho rised Lots to be laid off Said addition to be laid out to law SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That Samuel J. Chapman, of Johnson county, be and he is hereby authorised to lay off and divide the south-east quarter of section five, in township number thirteen, in range three, cast of the third principal meridian, into streets, alleys, lots, out-lots, and public squares, and make the same an addition to the town of Vienna, in the said county of Johnson; the said lots to be laid off in blocks, and to be numbered, to begin with number next after the highest number of lots in the said town of Vienna, and to continue until sixty lots shall be added to the said town; the said blocks to be laid off in such a size as will make the streets of said land to be laid off to correspond with the streets of the old town of Vienna. SEC. 2. That said Samuel J. Chapman may, in addition to the said sixty lots, lay off a portion of the said south-east quarter of section five, into one and two acre lots. SEC. 3. That the said Samuel J. Chapman, in laying off the in conformity said quarter section of land, shall in all things conform and comply with the requisitions of an act entitled "an act providing for the recording of town plats," approved February twentyseventh, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three, and 裙 shall be liable to all the forfeitures and penalties thereby im- APPROVED, February 2d, 1843. en AN ACT to repeal the laws incorporating the town of Chester. In force, Feb. 16, 1843. SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois. represented in the General Assembly, That all acts and parts of Incorporaacts incorporating the town of Chester, in the county of Randolph, be and the same are hereby repealed. tion of Ches ter repealed debts Tax may be SEC. 2. It shall be the duty of the president and trustees Property to The first section of this act shall take effect on the first day of This act དྲ་ 0 AN ACT to change the name of the town of St. Marian, in Ogle county, to Name of SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That the name of the town changed town of St. Marian, in the county of Ogle, and State of Illinois, be and the same is hereby changed to that of Buffalo, by which name it shall be hereafter known and distinguished in law; Pro- Change not vided, however, that the change of the name of said town shall to affect conin no wise affect contracts or conveyances heretofore made and tracts entered into, or any other legal transactions whatever. This act to take effect and be in force from and after its passage. APPROVED, February 20th, 1843. AN ACT to vacate the town of Rock Island city. ! In force, Feb. 20, 1843. Rock Island SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That the entire town plat of the Town plat of town of Rock Island City, in the county of Rock Island, as vacated laid out and recorded, is hereby declared to be vacated. APPROVED, February 20th, 1843. In force, Feb. 21, 1843, ized AN ACT to legalize the survey of the town of Mount Vernon. SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, Survey of town of Mt. represented in the General Assembly, That the survey of the town Vernon legal- of Mount Vernon, in Jefferson county, made by John Storms, in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty, and the plats and profiles made by him of said survey, are hereby legalized, and shall be taken and received in all courts as prima facie evidence of the facts therein contained and set forth, and the beginnings, endings, boundaries, and abuttals thereby established, are hereby legalised and confirmed. APPROVED, February 21st, 1843. In force, AN ACT to change the name of the town of Florence, Ogle county, to Feb. 21, 1843. that of Oregon. SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, Name of town represented in the General Assembly, That the name of the changed town of Florence, in the county of Ogle, originally platted and recorded by the name of Oregon City, shall be and is hereby changed to that of Oregon, by which latter name it shall be known and called in all public records and documents; and in all legal transactions where it shall be necessary to name said town, the name of Oregan shall be used; Provided, Contracts not however, that nothing shall be so construed as to impair the impaired by validity of any contracts or conveyances made and entered into previous to the passage of this act. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. APPROVED, February 21st, 1843. this act In force, AN ACT to change the name of the town of Greenfield, in Warren county, Feb. 23, 1843. Name of to that of Greenbush, SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, town changed represented in the General Assembly, That the name of the town of Greenfield, in the county of Warren, and State of Illinois, be and the same is hereby changed to that of Greenbush. APPROVED, February 23d, 1843. In force, Feb. 23, 1843. AN ACT in relation to the town of Manchester. SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That the persons living within the incorporated limits of the town of Manchester, bor on roads subject to do road labor, shall be required to labor the same number of days on the roads, streets, alleys and lanes in said Citizens required to la town, as now or may hereafter be provided by law regulating AN ACT changing the name of the town of Harrisburg, in Whiteside county. In force, Feb. 23, 1843. SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That the name of the Name of town of Harrisburg, in the county of Whiteside, is hereby town changed changed to that of Sterling, and the whole of the towns heretofore known as Harrisburg and Sterling, shall hereafter be called and known in law as Sterling; Provided, that the change of the name of said town of Harrisburg shall in no wise affect contracts heretofore made and entered into in relation to said town. This act to be in force from and after its passage. APPROVED, February 23d, 1813. AN ACT to change the name of Portland, in Cook county, to the name of In force, Feb. 24, 1843. SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That the name of the Name of place called Portland, in Cook county, Illinois, is hereby al- place tered and changed to Blue Island, and the same shall hereaf- changed ter always be known and called by such name of Blue Island. APPROVED, February 24th, 1843. AN ACT to change the name of the town of Georgetown, in Kendall county. In force, Feb. 28, 1843. SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, rep- Name of resented in the General Assembly, That the name of the town town changed of Georgetown, in Kendall county, be and the same is hereby changed to that of Newark. This act to take effect from and after its passage. APPROVED, February 28th, 1843. |