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exist, for one hundred years from the organization thereof, and, as such, shall contract and be contracted with, sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, defend and be defended, in any and all courts and other places, as fully and in the same manner as a private person could or might do.

§2. Said corporators, or a majority of them, shall, within one year, cause books to be opened for the subscription to the capital stock of said company, which shall be fifty thousand dollars, to be divided into shares of fifty dollars each; and, as soon as one hundred shares shall have been subscribed, said corporators, or a majority of them, shall give ten days' notice to said stockholders, by one written notice, posted at the post office in the town of Sparland, and, in pursuance thereof, hold an election, by the stock subscribers, (each share being entitled to one vote,) for five directors of said company, to hold their office for one year and until their successors are elected. Said directors shall meet within one month after their election and organize, by electing one of their number president, and, thereafter, elect and provide for the annual election of all the officers of said company, by ballot; and no person, except a stockholder, shall be eligible to any office in said company.

3. Said company shall keep a record of its proceedings, and also books of the business of the company, which shall, at all business hours, be subject to the examination of any stockholder; and said company may adopt and use a corporate seal, and alter the same at pleasure, by filing an impression thereof with the clerk of the circuit court of Marshall county. And said company shall do their business and keep their office at or near the village of Sparland, in said county. $4. As soon as ten per cent. of the subscribed stock shall have been. paid in said president and directors, any three of whom shall constitute a quorum, for any purpose, may commence the prosecution of any business authorized by this act.

5. Said company shall have power to acquire, purchase and hold, personal property, live stock, bonds and stocks, and to sell and dispose of the same, at pleasure; and shall, also, have power to acquire, purchase and hold real estate necessary to fully carry into effect the purposes of this act, not exceeding forty acres at any one time, which may consist of separate lots, parcels or amounts, and shall have power to sell and dispose of the same, at pleasure.

$ 6. Said company shall have power to select sites and to build and erect suitable mill buildings, and to sink and drive shafts and mine for coal, and to carry on either the milling and mining business, or both, and to transport the products of the same; and shall have power to do, and procure to be done, all such other acts and things as may be

necessasy and proper to prosecute and carry on the milling and mining business or either of them.

7. Said president and directors shall have power to By-laws. adopt such by-laws, rules and regulations as they may deem proper, for the better prosecuting the business of the company, which may not be inconsistent with this act, the laws of this state or the laws of the United States.

8. The affairs and business of said company shall be managed and controlled by said president and directors, who shall elect or appoint all subordinate officers, attorneys, agents and clerks, who may be authorized to act for and in the name of the company.

§ 9. Said company shall have power to lay out and con- Wagon roads and struct such wagon or cartways or railway switches or tracks railroads. as may be convenient for the transportation of the products of their business, not interfering with private property, but may run along, on or cross any public road or street; and, wherever the same may be done, said company shall widen, grade and keep such public road or street in repair, if necessary for the public convenience.

10. Said president and directors shall have power to Payment of sulcall in and compel the payment of stock subscribed, at such scription. time and in whatever manner they choose, by suit or by sale of the subscriber's stock at auction, or otherwise, as they see fit, being required to assess and call in upon all stockholders equally. And the capital stock in said company shall be deemed personal property, and, when shares are paid up, may be assigned according to the by-laws of the

company.

§ 11. Said president and directors shall require the omcial bonds. secretary and treasurer, and may require any of the other officers or the agents or clerks, to give bonds to the company, with sufficient security, in such penal sum as may be fixed in the by-laws, for money that may go into their hands. and for the performance of their duty.

12. This act shall be deemed a public act, and read in evidence in all courts, without further proof.

§ 13. This act shall be in force from and after its passage. APPROVED February 22, 1861.

AN ACT to restore Joseph Andrew Dunlap to citizenship.

WHEREAS Joseph Dunlap, of Effingham county, state of Illinois, was convicted of petit larceny, at the September term of the Effingham circuit court, for the year 1857, thereby depriving him of the rights of a citizen; and the said Joseph Andrew Dunlap, having conducted himself

In force February 18, 1861.

as a worthy, honorable citizen, ever since said conviction; therefore,

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That Joseph Andrew Dunlap, of Effingham county, state of Illinois, be restored to all the rights of a citizen, as fully as if said conviction had never taken place.

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

APPROVED February 18, 1861.

In force February AN ACT to change the name of John Johnson Erwin to that of John John

7, 1861.

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son Mitchell.

WHEREAS John Johnson Erwin, of McLean county, who has heretofore resided with his step father, Isaac Mitchell, of said county, and has always borne the name of John Johnson Mitchell, supposing it to be his real name, and under said name of John Johnson Mitchell has been elected and has acted as constable of McLean county, and has acted in other official capacities under the name of Mitchell; and whereas the said John Johnson Erwin is in a few days to take to himself a wife, (an act greatly to be commended by this general assembly,) and desires that himself and his future wife and children may bear the name of Mitchell; therefore,

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That the name of John Johnson Erwin, of McLean county, who has heretofore resided with Isaac Mitchell, of said county, be and the same is hereby changed to John Johnson Mitchell; and by the said name of John Johnson Mitchell he shall hereafter be known and called.

§ 2. All acts, deeds and contracts, of every description, Erwin prior to which the said John Johnson Erwin has heretofore performed or entered into, either as an officer or as an individual, under the name of John Johnson Mitchell, shall be binding upon the said Erwin and all other parties in interest, in the same manner as if his name had been John Johnson Mitchell.

3. That the said John Johnson Mitchell shall be and is hereby made and constituted a legal heir of said Isaac Mitchell, with full power and authority to take, hold and enjoy and transmit any and all property that shall or may descend to him from Isaac Mitchell, in the same manner as if he had been a natural born child of said Isaac Mitchell. § 4. This act shall be a public act, and shall be in force from and after its passage.

APPROVED February 7, 1861.

AN ACT to incorporate the Northwestern Express Company.

In force February

22, 1861.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That George C. Bestor, William C. Boilvin and John J. Weed, of Peoria, Henry R. Chittenden and Benjamin F. Marsh, jr., of Warsaw, E. K. Stone, and James T. Baker, of Quincy, Walter S. Gurnee and Lucuius B. Boomer, of Chicago, William H. Mitchell and Jeremiah Job, of Alton, and John Williams and Charles W. Matheny, of Springfield, be and they are hereby created a body politic and corporate, by the name and style of "The Northwestern Express Company;" Corporate name and by such name they and their successors shall have perpetual succession, and by and in their corporate name shall be capable of contracting and being contracted with, and, in law and in equity, of suing and being sued, pleading and being impleaded, answering and being answered unto, in all courts, in all manner of actions, suits, complaints and cases whatever.

and powers.

2. The said corporation may have a common seal, alter Common seal. or break the same at its pleasure, and may make, establish, alter or change any by-laws, rules or regulations, for the government of said corporation, its members or officers, at any time, or the conducting of its business: Provided, such by-laws, rules or regulations shall not be repugnant to the constitutions of the United States or this state or the laws of the United States or this state.

§ 3. The corporation hereby created shall have power Transportation of to receive and transport and convey, at and from any [point] goods, &c. in the state of Illinois or any other state, any goods, wares, merchandise, personal property or effects, of any description whatever, and to collect and receive charges and remuneration therefor; and to that intent to do and perform all other and proper acts; to purchase, hold and transfer real estate; to have depots, offices, warehouses or other buildings, yards, docks, and other things and property usual or proper in conducting and carrying on the business of express or freighting companies, in all modes and manners whatever.

4. The capital stock of said company shall not be less capital stock than ten thousand dollars nor more than five hundred thousand dollars, and shall be divided into shares of one hundred dollars each; and said company may commence acting as such corporation whenever ten thousand dollars are subscribed to its capital stock.

5. The officers of said company shall be a board of Officers. directors of five, a president, selected from said board, a secretary and treasurer, also to be elected by said board. The said directors shall be chosen by the stockholders, and shall continue in office until their successors are elected by the stockholders.

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6. The said company shall have power to borrow money and mortgage or pledge its corporate property for the payment of the same. And the members of said corporation shall be liable, in all cases, to all the creditors of or persons having legal demands against said corporation to the amount of stock subscribed by them respectively.

§ 7. This act shall be deemed a public act, and received as such in all courts, and as such adjudged as notice of its contents to all persons, and shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

APPROVED February 22, 1861.

In force February AN ACT to incorporate the Farmers' Steam Wagon Road Company of Ver22, 1861.

milion County, State of Illinois.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That James S. McClelland, Isaac Fisher, Lyons Parker, Halsted Conover, William Gray and Silas Dickson, be and they are hereby created a body politic and corporate, by the name and style of Corporate name "The Farmers' Steam Wagon Road Company;" and by such name they and their successors shall have perpetual succession; and by their corporate name shall be capable of contracting and being contracted with, and, in law and equity, of suing and being sued, pleading and being impleaded, answering and being answered unto, in all courts, and in all manner of actions, suits, and complaints and cases whatso

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ever.

§ 2. The said corporation may have a common seal, alter or change the same at its pleasure; and may make, establish, alter or change any by-laws, rules or regulations of the government of the said corporation, its members or officers, at any time: Provided, such by-laws, rules and regulations be in accordance with the constitution and laws of the United States and of the state of Illinois.

3. This corporation shall have power to build, maintain and use a steam wagon road, from the town of Homer, in the county of Champaign, the towns of Salina and Catlin, in the county of Vermilion, or from either of them to the town of Dallas, Chillicothe, or any point not more than sixteen miles south of the Great Western railroad.

§ 4. The capital stock of said company shall not be less than ten thousand dollars nor more than one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, and shall be divided into shares of fifty dollars each; and the persons named in the first section of this act, or a majority of them, are hereby appointed commissioners to open or cause to be opened subscription

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