of the proper county shall, annually thereafter, compute and assess upon all the taxable property in such townships a sufficient sum to pay the interest on all such bonds, which tax shall be extended upon the collector's books as other taxes are, and shall be collected in the same manner as other taxes are; and the county treasurer of the proper county shall discharge the same duties as are prescribed by said act with reference to the payment of the interest on said bonds.

10. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

IN FORCE April 16, 1869.

This bill having been returned by the governor with objections thereto, and after reconsideration having passed both houses by a constitutional majority, it has become a law this sixteenth day of April, A. D. 1869. EDWARD RUMMEL, Secretaay of State.

In force April AN ACT supplemental to an act entitled "An act to incorporate the Pana,

19, 1869.

Springfield and Northwestern Railroad Company.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That secSections void. tions seven (7), eight (8) and nine (9) of an act entitled "An act to amend an act entitled 'an act to incorporate the Pana, Springfield and Northwestern Railroad Company," passed by the 26th general assembly of the state of Illinois, be and they are hereby declared to be of no force and effect.

Stock subscriptions.

§ 2. The proceedings of the town of Springfield, Sangamon county, on the first Tuesday of April, A. D. 1869, Vote legalized. by which the sum of thirty thousand dollars was voted to be subscribed by said town to the capital stock of said company, in addition to the sum of fifty thousand heretofore voted by said town to be subscribed as stock in said company is hereby legalized, it being the intent hereof to legalize subscriptions on behalf of said town voted as aforesaid to the amount of eighty thousand dollars, fifty thousand thereof to the west division of said road and thirty thousand thereof to the eastern division of said road; and the supervisor of said town is authorized to make such subscriptions in behalf of said town, in conformity with the conditions of said votes; and, if such subscriptions shall have already been made, the same are hereby legalized; and it shall be his duty to issue the bonds of said county therefor, in conformity with the conditions of said respective subscriptions, with the like effect and under the like regulations as provided in the act to which this act is supplemental or in the act entitled "An act to incorporate the Pana, Springfield and Northwestern Railroad Company," approved Feb. 16th, 1865.

Provisions ap

3. The provisions of the foregoing section shall apply plicable to Pana to subscriptions voted by the towns of Pana, Taylorville,

Buckheart and Locust, in Christian county, to the capital stock of said company, on the first Tuesday of April, 1869, so far as the same shall be applicable, and the proceedings of said towns, in voting said subscriptions, are hereby legalized, and any subscription of stock made thereunder by the respective supervisors of said towns or which may be made thereunder in conformity with the votes of said towns, respectively, are hereby legalized, and it is hereby made the duty of the respective supervisors aforesaid to issue the bonds of their respective towns in payment of said subscription, as provided for and regulated in the act to which this is supplemental, or in the act entitled "An act to incorporate the Pana, Springfield and Northwestern Railroad Company," approved February 16th, 1865.

4. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

APPROVED April 19, 1869.

AN ACT to amend an act entitled "An act to incorporate the Pekin, In force March Lincoln, and Decatur Railroad Company."

10, 1869.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That in ad- Extend road. dition to the powers conferred upon the Pekin, Lincoln and Construction of. Decatur Railroad Company, by the act to which this act is an amendment, said company are hereby authorized and empowered to extend and construct its line of railroad from Decatur, in the county of Macon, to a point on the west bank of the river Wabash, opposite the city of Vincennes, Ronte of road. in the state of Indiana-the extension herein provided for to be along the most eligible route as the directors of said. company may direct: Provided, further, that said railroad company are hereby authorized and empowered to extend and construct its line of railroad, from Pekin, in the county of Tazewell, to Peoria, in the county of Peoria-the extension herein provided for to be along such eligible route as the directors of said company may direct: And provided, further, that said railroad, in passing the city of Lincoln, shall not be located or run between Lincoln University and the Lincoln Coal Shaft, southwest from Elliott's mills, but shall be located north of said Lincoln University

or south of said coal shaft.

leges.

§ 2. All the rights, powers, privileges, and advantages, Further priviconferred upon said railroad company, in the act to which this act is an amendment, are hereby extended to and conferred upon said company, respecting the extensions herein. provided for. And all counties, incorporated towns and cities, and organized townships, through or by which the extensions herein provided for may pass, are hereby au

Sections 11 and 12 amended.

Sec. 13 amended

when.

thorized and empowered to subscribe to the capital stock of said company, in the manner provided for in this act and the act to which this is an amendment: Provided, that the aggregate subscriptions made by any county and its cities, towns and townships, along the line of such extension, shall not exceed the sum of three hundred thousand dollars.

§ 3. Sections eleven and twelve of the act to which this act is an amendment are hereby so amended that hereafter the application of the board of directors, provided for in said section eleven, for an election, and petition provided for in said section twelve, shall be made, and presented to the county clerk of the proper county, and not to the county court or board of supervisors, as in said sections eleven and twelve provided; and thereupon the county clerk of the county in which such application shall be made or petition presented shall give the notice of elections for subscribing to the capital stock of said company, as provided for in section ten of said act, to which this act is an amendment; but nothing in this act shall be taken or held to impair any elections heretofore held under the provisions of said act to which this act is an amendment, and all elections heretofore held by any county, city, town or township, wherein such county, city, town or township may have voted for subscription to the capital stock of said company, as appears from the declared result of such elections, shall be and the same are severally hereby ratified and in all things confirmed, notwithstanding any irregularity or informality in the calling of such elec

tions.

§ 4. Section thirteen of the act to which this act is an amendment is hereby so amended that if at any election. held in Logan county, under the provisions hereof and the act of which this act is amendatory, a majority of the voters voting at such election shall vote "For subscription," the board of supervisors of said Logan county shall not be required to subscribe for shares of the capital stock of said railroad company and shall not issue bonds to the treasurer or president of said company, only in the manner and at Issue of bonds, the times following, to wit: Whenever ten (10) miles of said railroad shall have been completed, ready to receive the rolling stock, within the county of Logan, then the board of supervisors of said Logan county shall, upon the request of said company, through their president or treasurer, subscribe for one-third of the shares of said capital stock so voted, and shall issue and deliver to the president or treasurer of said company the county bonds of said Logan county in amount equal to one-third of the whole amount of subscription so voted by said Logan county; and whenever fifteen additional miles of said railroad shall have beem completed, ready to receive the rolling stock,

make further

within the limits of said Logan county, then said board of Supervisors to supervisors shall, upon the like request of said company, subscription. subscribe for another one-third of the shares of the said capital stock so voted, and shall issue and deliver to the president or treasurer of said company the county bonds of said Logan county, in amount equal to an additional onethird of the whole amount so voted; and when said railroad shall have been so completed through the county of Logan, then said board of supervisors shall, in like manner, subscribe for the remaining shares of said capital stock so voted, and shall issue and deliver to the president or treasurer of said company the county bonds of said Logan county, in amount equal to the remaining one-third of the amount so voted. Said bonds shall bear a rate of interest, to be fixed by the directors of said company, not exceeding ten (10) per cent. per annum, payable annually.

$5. The proviso in the nineteenth section of the act to which this act is an amendment shall only apply and be in force with respect to the Chicago, Alton and St. Louis Railroad Company, and the St. Louis, Jacksonville and Chicago Railroad Company.

Construction of

proviso in sec. 19

repealed.

6. This act shall be a public act and be in force from Conflicting acts and after its passage, and all acts or parts of acts inconsistent herewith are hereby expressly repealed. APPROVED March 10, 1869.

AN ACT to amend the several acts incorporating the Peoria, Pekin In torce March and Jacksonville Railroad Company.

10, 1669.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That the Preamble. Peoria, Pekin and Jacksonville Railroad Company, a corporation created, organized and established in this state, under and by virtue of an act entitled "An act to construct a railroad from Jacksonville, in Morgan county, to La Salle, in LaSalle county," approved February 11, 1853, also, an act entitled "An act to amend an act entitled 'an act to construct a railroad from Jacksonville, in Morgan county, to LaSalle, in La Salle county,'" approved March 1, 1854, also, an act entitled "An act to amend the charter of the Illinois River Railroad Company," approved January 29, 1857, also an act entitled an act to amend an act entitled 'an act to construct a railroad from Jacksonville, in Morgan county, to La Salle, in La Salle county,' approved February 11, 1853, and, also, to amend an act entitled "An act to amend an act entitled 'an act to construct a railroad from Jacksonville, in Morgan county, to La Salle, in La Salle county,' approved March 1, 1854," approved February 16, 1857, also, an act entitled "An act to further amend the

charter of the Illinois River Railroad Company," approved February 14, 1859, also, an act entitled "An act to incorporate the Peoria, Pekin, and Jacksonville Railroad Company," approved June 11, 1863," also, an act entitled "An act supplemental to an act entitled an act to incorporate the Peoria, Pekin and Jacksonville Railroad Company, approved June 11, 1863,' approved February 16, 1865," and, also, an act entitled "An act to amend the charter of Peoria, Pekin, and Jacksonville Railroad Company," approved February 19, 1867, be and the same is hereby declared to be a body corporate, and invested with all the rights, powers, privileges, and franchises which were given to said company or to the Illinois River Railroad Company, by any and all of the aforesaid acts. And whereas the said Peoria, Pekin and Jacksonville Railroad Company did, on the 22d day of May, A.D. 1868, purchase from the Peoria and Hannibal Railroad Company all that portion of the line of the latter railroad company, from a point in Peoria county, opposite Pekin, in Tazewell county, to and into the city of Peoria, and received a deed of conveyance therefor, duly recorded in the recorder's office of Peoria county, on the twelfth day, of June, 1868; now, therefore, be it further Vested powers. enacted, that the said Peoria, Pekin and Jacksonville Railroad Company is hereby declared to be invested with all the powers, privileges, rights and franchises which belonged by law or ordinance, to the said Peoria and Hannibal Railroad Company, to that portion of the latter road, in Peoria county, so sold and conveyed to the Peoria, Pekin and Jacksonville Railroad Company, and the latter company shall hereafter have, hold and enjoy all such rights, powers, privileges and franchises, so acquired from the Peoria and Hannibal Railroad Company, in as full and ample a manner as they were held and possessed by the former company, and, in addition to the rights, powers, privileges and franchises held, used, enjoyed or possessed by the Peoria, Pekin and Jacksonville Railroad Company, under the several acts of the legislature of this state, above recited, and granted by said acts to either the Illinois River Railroad Company, or to its successors, the said Peoria, Pekin. and Jacksonville Railroad Company.

ital stock.

Iuerease of eap- § 2. The capital stock of the said Peoria, Pekin and Jacksonville Railroad Company, which is now fixed at one million of dollars, may be hereafter increased, by a vote of a majority of the directors of said company, to any sum which, in their judgment, shall be requisite and necessary for the construction, equipment and completion of the line or lines of railroad and for the purposes authorized by the several acts enumerated in the first section of this act, not exceeding in amount five million of dollars. Said capital stock shall be divided into shares of one hundred dollars, each, which shall be deemed personal property, and shall