In force, Jan. AN ACT to authorise Henry C. Anderson to keep a ferry in Henderson county. 30, 1849, SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the people of the state of Illinois, represented in the general assembly, That Henry C. Anderson, his heirs and assigns, shall have the right, and he is authorised to establish a ferry from the Illinois shore of the Mississippi river, to Burlington aforesaid, with the privilege of landing on the Illinois shore, at and on the state road from Peoria to the Mississippi river, and on the United States road, as laid out and made by the United States, and terminating opposite the said city of Burlington, and near the line between townships nine and ten north, and sixth west, of the fourth meridian, in the county of Henderson, and state of Illinois; and to maintain and continue the same during ten years from the passage of this act. § 2. The said Henry C. Anderson shall run, at all seasonable times, across said river, a good and substantial and safe steam or horse ferry boat, and give a safe and speedy passage to all persons wishing to cross, and any and all kinds of stock, teams, carriages, and property, such as is usual or customary to be ferried across said river, at good and well established ferries, and shall attend at all reasonable hours, as now required by law, and give a speedy passage, without unnecessary delay, keeping the bank of the river on the Illinois side, at the point of landing, graded and smooth to pass in and out. And he shall have a right to demand and receive from any and every person crossing, the rates of toll now or that hereafter may be established by the county commissioners' court of Henderson county, Illinois, for ferrying persons, &c., as afore said. § 3. The exclusive right to establish and keep a ferry at said place, shall not be vested in said Anderson by virtue of this act, nor shall the exclusive right to a ferry privilege at said point be granted to or be held by any other person or corporation; but the legislature may from time to time, as the public good may to them seem to require, grant to others, as by this act is granted to said Anderson. § 13. This is declared a public act, and shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. APPROVED January 30, 1849. In force, Jan. 31, 1849. AN ACT to legalise an act to establish a ferry across the Illinois river, at La SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the people of the state of Illinois, represented in the general assembly, That the ferry privileges granted to William Byrnes, John Murry, and Thomas W. Hennessy by the above named act, be, and the same are hereby, continued in full force and effect; Provided, said ferry shall be put in active operation within one year from the passage of this act; And provided, also, that this act shall in no wise release said Byrnes, Murry, and Hennessy from filing a bond required by the fifth section of said act. The act to which this is an amendment shall be repealed, un less the provisions of this act are complied with within the time above specified. This act to be in force from and after its passage. APPROVED January 31, 1849. AN ACT to authorise Thomas H. Owen to keep a ferry across the Mississippi river, at the town of Nauvoo. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the people of the state of Illinois, represented in the general assembly, That Thomas H. Owen, his heirs and assigns, be, and they are hereby, authorised to establish and keep a ferry for the term of twenty years, across the Missisippi river, between the town of Nauvoo, in the county of Hancock, and the opposite shore in the state of Iowa. The [landing] place of said ferry shall be at or in the vicinity of the west end of Parley street, in the town of Nauvoo. § 2. The said Thomas H. Owen shall at all times keep good and suffieient boats for the speedy and safe transportation of passengers, teams, horses, cattle, and other animals, as well as goods and effects belonging to passengers, and shall furnish said boats with men of sufficient strength and skill to manage them, and shall charge and receive such rates of ferriage as may be allowed him by the president and trustees, or the city council, as the case may be, of the town or city of Nauvoo. § 3. The said Owen shall pay into the treasury of the said town or city of Nauvoo, such annual tax as may be imposed upon said ferry by the president and trustees of said town of Nauvoo, or city council, as the case may be, not exceeding twenty dollars; and the management and regulation of said ferry, and the rights and privileges of the owners thereof, shall be governed and secured by the "act to provide for the establishment of ferries, toll-bridges, and turnpike roads," approved February 12, 1847. § 4. The said Owen, or his legal representatives, shall, within two years from the first of April next, furnish for the use of said ferry a good and sufficient horse or steamboat; and on failing so to do as herein required, shall forfeit all the rights and privileges hereby granted. § 5. This act to take effect from and after the first day of March next. APPROVED February 8, 1849. In force, March 1, 1849. AN ACT to amend an act entitled "an act to authorise H. H. Gear to keep a ferry across the Mississippi river," approved January 18, 1840. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the people of the state of Illinois, represented in the general assembly, That the term of the ferry franchise granted to the said H. H. Gear, under and by virtue of the above recited act, to which this is an amendment, be, and the same is hereby, extended to the said H. H. Gear, his heirs and assigns, for and during the term of thirty years subject to the same restrictions contained in the act to which this is an amendment. APPROVED February 8, 1849. In force, AN ACT to establish a ferry across the Mississippi river, and for other purposes April 13, 1849. therein named. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the people of the state of Illinois, represented in the general assembly, That a ferry be, and the same is hereby, authorised to be established across the Mississippi river from opposite the town of Keokuk, in the state of Iowa, and from the vicinity of a point opposite said town of Keokuk, for one mile each way from said point, in the county of Hancock, and state of Illinois, across said Mississippi river, to said town of Keokuk. § 2. All right of said ferry privilege is hereby vested in the county of Hancock, and the county commissioners' court of said county may authorise any person or persons to keep and run said ferry in such manner as they may deem proper and just; Provided, however, that this act shall not be so construed as to authorise said county to sell said chartered rights. § 3. The person who shall obtain from said county the right to keep and run said ferry, shall be governed in all things by the laws of this state, which may from time to time be in force concerning ferries; and said county commissioners' court may regulate the tolls, from time to time, to be charged by said ferry. APPROVED February 9, 1849. In force, Feb. 10, 1849. AN ACT to authorise George Heberling to establish and keep a ferry across the SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the people of the state of Illinois, represented in the general assembly, That George Heberling, his heirs and assigns, be, and they are herely, authorised to establish and keep in operation, a ferry across the Mississippi river, four miles below the town of Nauvoo, in Hancock county, and opposite the town of Nashville, in Lee county, in the state of Iowa, for and during the term of ten years, fully to be completed and ended. § 2. The said George Heberling, his heirs and assigns, shall be allowed such rates of ferriage, and be entitled to the same privileges, and subject to all of the duties and restrictions contained in chapter forty-two of the revised statutes of this state, entitled "Ferries and Toll-bridges." This act to take effect from and after its passage. AN ACT to incorporate a ferry in Jo Daviess county. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the people of the state of Illinois, represented in the general assembly, That William M. Young and William B. Whiteside, of the county of Jo Daviess, shall have the right, aud are hereby authorised to establish a ferry on the Mississippi river, in the county of Jo Daviess, from the south-east fraction of the north-west quarter of section twenty-seven, township twenty-eight north, range one west, of the fourth principal meridian, to the west side of said Mississippi river, in the county of Jackson, Iowa, and to maintain and continue the same for and during the term of ten years from and after the passage of this act. § 2. That said Young and Whiteside shall run across said river a good and substantial horse ferry boat, and give a safe and speedy passage to all persons wishing to cross, and any and all kinds of stock, teams, carriages, and property such as [is] usual and customary to be ferried across [said] river, at good well established ferries; and shall attend at all reasonable hours as now required by law, and give a speedy passage without unnecessary delay, keeping the bank of said river on the Illinois side graded and smooth to pass in and out. And they shall have a right to demand and receive from any and all persons crossing, the rates of toll as now established by the county commissioners' court of Jo Daviess county, for ferrying persons, wagons, carriages, and property, and the rates may be charged [changed] when in the wisdom of the county commissioners it is deemed necessary. §3. The requisitions and provisions of this act, and the interests of the grantees, and the public, may be enquired into by the circuit court of the county, in an action in the nature of a quo warranto, and this charter may be declared null and void, and in that case, the county commissioners' court of said county may regulate said ferry in such manner as to them shall seem right for the public good. under the law regulating ferries. § 4. This act to take effect from and after its passage. APPROVED February 10, 1849. I force, In force, AN ACT to amend an act entitled "an act to authorise Nathaniel G. Wilcox and his associates to establish a ferry across the Mississippi river, at the most con April 13, 1849. venient point opposite the town of Bloomington," approved February 26, 1839. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the people of the state of Illinois, represented in the general assembly, That the time of said franchise fixed by said act be, and the same is hereby, extended to the said Nathaniel G. Wilcox, his heirs and assigns, for the further term of twenty-five years, subject to the same duties and restrictions contained in the act to which this is an amendment. § 2. For the privileges herein granted, the said Nathaniel G. Wilcox, his heirs and assigns, shall pay such annual tax as may be assessed by the county commissioners' court, or the county court hereafter to be formed in said county, not exceeding the sum of forty dollars; which may be expended by said Wilcox in labor on the road leading from said ferry landing through the bottom to the bluff, under the direction of said court; and in default of the payment of said tax, the said Wilcox, his heirs and assigns, shall forfeit the sum of fifty dollars, to be recovered in an action of debt, in the name of said Rock Island county, before any justice of the peace therein, subject to appeals as in other cases. And that the county court of Rock Island county shall have the right to fix the rates of ferriage at said ferry. §3. Passengers, their teams, &c., may and shall be taken from and landed at a point as near the termination of the public highway through the Illinois bottom, as may be practicable. § 4. The citizens of Rock Island and adjoining counties, crossing said ferry with their teams, &c., and returning the same day, shall not be charged more than half of the usual rates of ferriage. APPROVED February 10, 1849. In force, April 13, 1849. Persons to es. AN ACT to establish a ferry on the Mississippi river, in St. Clair county. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the people of the state of Illinois, reptablish ferry. resented in the general assembly, That James B. Needles, John Gall, Madison Miller, Alfred Crosbey, Julian Kevard, and John Trombly, their associates, heirs, and assigns, be, and they are hereby, authorised to establish a ferry on the Mississippi river, opposite Carondalet, in the state of Missouri, on claim number two hundred and seven, survey number one hundred and eight; and they shall have the right to ferry across said river from said point for and during the term of fifteen years; which said exclusive right shall extend two miles up and two miles down the said Mississippi river, from the point at which said ferry may be established on the said claim and survey hereinbefore more fully described. Tenure. To construct roads. § 2. The said ferry company, their associates, heirs, and assigns, shall locate and construct a good road or causeway from said ferry, through the low land or sand bar east of said ferry, in low water, to the main shore or highland, not to exceed forty feet in width, and from thence, eastwardly, across the American Bottom. They shall construct a good road, sixty feet wide, intersecting the Saint Louis and Kaskaskia road at or near the nearest point at which said road approaches said ferry--the whole distance being about two miles To build bridge and a half. The said ferry company shall also erect a good and substantial frame bridge across Prairie Du Pont creek. es. Ferry to be established three months. § 3. The said Needles, Gall, Miller, Crosbey, Kevard, and Tromin bly, shall have said road open and said bridge built and ferry erected, at the said point on the Mississippi river, within three months from the passage of this act. The said ferry company, their assoRight of way. ciates, heirs, and assigns, shall be allowed the right of way over all lands on which said road shall be located, and shall be liable to the owner or owners thereof, for any damages which may be sustained to private property by reason of the location and opening said road; which said damages shall be assessed in the same manner that damages are now assessed in similar cases. |