AN ACT to authorize the town of Oquawka to subscribe to the capital In force June 21, stock of certain corporations therein named. 1852. ized to subscribe SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinoi, represented in the General Assembly, That the town of Oquawka, through the trustees of said town, are Trustees authorhereby authorized to subscribe to the capital stock of any company now organized, or which may hereafter be organized, for the purpose of constructing and maintaining a plank road from a point on the west bank of the Mississippi river, opposite to the said town of Oquawka, in Desmoines county, in the state of Iowa, to extend westwardly or north-westwardly, or for the purpose of establishing and keeping a ferry at said town of Oquawka, across the Mississippi river, an amount not exceeding twenty-five thousand dollars; and Amount of subalso an amount not exceeding ten thousand dollars, to the scription. capital stock of any company which may be engaged in constructing a plank road terminating at said town of Oquawka. And for the purpose of paying such subscription said town of Uquawka, by their trustees, are hereby authorized to levy and collect a special tax on all real estate in said Special tax. town; such tax to be levied and collected as other corporation taxes: Provided, that the levying and collecting such tax shall apply to the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two as well as to subsequent years: And provided fur- Further proviso. ther, that before levying any such tax, or subscribing to any such stock, the trustees of said town shall order a vote of the taxable voters of said town, who own real estate in sid town of Oquawka, to be taken, whether such stock shall be subscribed for or not, and shall cause three notices of such voting to be posted up in said town at least ten days before such voting is to be taken; such notice to set forth the time and place of taking the vote, the amount of stock proposed to be taken, and in what company the stock is to be taken; such vote to be taken as other corporation elections; and if a majority of the votes be cast in favor of the proposition, such trustees shall subscribe for such stock, and proceed to levy and collect the same as aforesaid. Proviso. §2. The trustees of said town of Oquawka, when any Bonds. stock shall be subscribed for by them, as authorized and provided for in the foregoing section, may issue the bonds of said corporation of Oquawka to the amount of the stock taken, bearing interest at a rate not exceeding eight per cent. per annum, for the purpose of paying for such stock by them taken and subscribed, and may apply the taxes so assessed and collected as herein provided for towards paying such bonds or the interest thereon. 3. This act to be in force and take effect from and after its passage. APPROVED June 21, 1852. In force June 21, AN ACT to amend an ac' for the improvement of the nav gation of Rock river, and for the pi oduction of hyd. aulic power. ed. 1852. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinis, represented in the General Assembly, That so Section re-enact- iuch of the tenth section of the act entitled "an act to improve the rapids in Rock river, at Sterling, Whiteside county, and to incorporate the Sterling Hydraulic and Manufacturing company," in force February 18th, 1847, as relates to the gift and transfer of state property to the company, be and the same is hereby re-enacted, and made part of the act to which this is an amendment. APPROVED June 21, 1852. In force June 21, AN ACT to establish a state road from Union, in McHenry county, to Genoa, 1852. in De Kalb county. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That Norman Dunham, Samuel Richardson and William M. Jackson be and are hereby appointed commissioners to view, lay out and locate a state road commencing at any convenient point in the town of Union, in McHenry county, running from thence and upon the most practicable route, to Genoa, in De Kalb county. § 2. It shall be the duty of said commissioners, or any two of them, to proceed to Union, in the county of McHenry, on or before the first day of September next, or as soon thereafter as they may find convenient, and after having been sworn by some acting justice of the peace, or clerk of said county, to view, mark and locate a read as above designated. § 3. When the said commissioners shall have laid out said road, they shall make out and deliver to clerks of the counties through which said road passes, a copy or plat of said road; which plat by said clerks shall be entered of record in their several offices, and the said entries shall be evidence in all courts of this state of the existence of said road. § 4. The compensation to each person employed in locating and establishing said road shall be one doilar and fifty cents for each day necessarily employed, exclusive of expenses for provisions, forage for horses, &c., except the surveyor, who shall have two dollars per day for each day so employed. § 5. The expenses incurred in establishing said road shall be allowed and paid by each county, upon the filing of the plats as aforesaid, t'rough which said road is loca- This act to be in force from and after its passage. AN ACT to incorporate the Alexander and Pulaski Toll-bridge and Plank In force Aug. 22, Road company. ,, Style. 1852. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That Green P. Garner, John Hodges, Francis M. Rawlings and John A. Corporators. McClernand, and all such persons as shall hereafter become stockholders in the company hereby incorporated, their assigns and successors, be and they are hereby chartered and constituted a body corporate, by the name of the “Alexander and Pulaski Toll-bridge and Plank Road company; that they have succession, be capable of suing and being surd, pleading and bemg impleaded, within all courts in this state; be capable of contracting and being contracted with; of purchasing, selling, holding and conveying real real estate and personal property, as necessary and convenient to enable them to establish a toll-bridge across Cache river, on the south-west quarter of the south-west quarter of section thirty-one (31,) in township fifteen (15) south, Purpose. of range one (1) west of the third principal meridian, a a point where said river is the boundary between the counties aforesaid; and also to build, construct and complete a plank road from the town of Thebes, the county seat of Alexander county, to North Caledonia, the county seat of Pulaski county; and to carry out the privileges and franchises granted herein, with power to make by laws, rules and regulations for the management of its property, the stock of said company, and to regulate its affairs. § 2. The stock of said company shall be fifty thousand Stock and shares. dollars, in shares of twenty-five dollars each, which is declared to be personal property, transferable by assignment. When the capital arising from said stock is invested and Increase of stock. expended in the objects of said charter, the stock of said company may be, from time to time, increased, in amounts of one hundred dollars each, as required in the completion of said works or either of them, but such stock shall not be increased beyond one hundred thousand dollars. and plank road to be § 3. The said plank road shall not be dependent upon Toll-bridge the construction of said to!-ridge, nor the said toll-bridge in ependent of upon the said plank road, but either may be constructed, or each other. Charter, when to be declared void. Penalties. any part thereof, independent of the other; and if the said plank road shall be first completed, or any five miles thereof, the said incorporators may collect such rates of toll as may be directed by the county courts of said counties; and when the said toll-bridge shall have been completed, whether the whole or any portion of said plank road may have been constructed or not, such tolls may be collected for passing thereon as the respective county courts may determine, the Alexander county court regulating the amount of tolls from the Alexander shores, and Pulaski from hers. § 4. Whenever said corporation shall manifestly fail or neglect to comply with the provisions of this act, a reasonable allowance being made to them for that purpose, the circuit court of Alexander and Pulaski county, on a full investigation of the facts and evidence adduced, and in view of the justice of the case, may declare this charter null and void. § 5. If any person or persons shall wilfully do or cause to be done, any act or acts whatever, whereby any boat, bridge, embankment, road, gates, building, construction, or work of said corporation shall be obstructed, impaired, weakened, injured or destroyed, the person or persons so offending shall, on conviction thereof, forfeit and pay to the said corporation treble the amount of damages sustained by means of such injury, to be recovered in the name of said corporation, in any court of this staie, by action of debt, trespass, or trespass on the case, with costs of suit; and nothing herein, in consequence of a recovery therefor, shall be a bar to the punishment of such offenders under the criminal laws of this state. § 6. This act is declared to be a public act, and is to be construed liberally to promote and carry out the objects, herein intended. APPROVED June 21, 1852. In force June 21, AN ACT to provide for the settlement of the claim of Samuel Bacon against 1852. Appropriation of $600. the state. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That the auditor of public accounts be and he hereby is required to draw his warrant upon the treasurer, for the sum of six hundred dollars, in favor of Samuel Bacon, a blind man, formerly connected with the institution of the blind at Jacksonville, in full satisfaction and final discharge of all claims, dues or demands against the state, for services or otherwise, and that the This act to be in force from and after its passage. AN ACT to incorporate the Naples Protection Association. In force June 21, 1852. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That Holoway W. Vansyckle, Thomas Holobush, Henry Dresser, Roy- Corporators. al Mooers and Robert Morrison, and their successors, as hereinafter provided, are hereby constituted and appointed a body politic and corporate, under the name and style of "The President and Trustees of the Naples Protection As-Style. sociation;" and under that name shall be a municipal incorporation, and shall have power to contract and be contracted with, sue and be sued, and shall have all the powers hereinafter granted to as full extent as natural persons can or may have. General powers. President. Secretary. § 2. Said trustees shall appoint one of their number president of their said board, and who shall act as treasurer of said corporation. They shall appoint another one of said board who shall act as secretary of said corporation, and whose duty it shall be to keep a record of all the proceedings of said board, and have the care, control and custody of all books, papers and property of said corporation, and the said president shall have the care, control and possession of all money belonging to said corporation, and shall pay Care of funds. the same out upon the orders of said board, to be recorded by said secretary, and certified copies presented to said president, and not otherwise. The said president shall keep a cash book, in which he shall enter an account of all money received, and from what source, and of all money paid out, to whom paid, and for what purpose. A majority of the members of said board shall have power to fill all vacancies that may occur in their number, and in all their acts three members shall form a quorum to do business, a majority of which quorum may do all acts authorized to be done by said corporation. § 3. The object and intention of this corporation is to build and cause to be built a levee or levees, or any other kind of improvement around certain boundaries of land, to be determined by them, for the purpose of excluding the water of the Illinois river from said land, thereby to increase its value to the owners and promote the general health of Accounts. Objects, |