son or persons, with the consent of the owner or owners thereof, or from any public street, road or landing on the south side of said river, for and during the term of twenty years from the passage of this act. § 2. The said Hardy, Todd and Hough, their associates, Tolls. heirs or assigns, shall be authorized to demand and receive the same tolls which any other ferry in said La Salle county, across said river, is authorized to demand and receive, and shall in other respects be entitled to all the 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": Provided, that whenever the town of La Salle shall become incorporated, the authorities of said town shall have power to regulate the tolls on said ferry. propriated. § 3. All taxes which may be levied on said ferry and Taxes, how apcollected shall be appropriated and used to aid in constructing and keeping in repair the road or roads leading from said ferry, and unless said ferry shall be put in active operation, and within one year from the passage of this act, then and in such case sections one and two of this act shall become null and void. constructed. § 4. The said Hardy, Todd and Hough, their associates, Plank road auheirs and assigns, are hereby authorized and empowered, thorized to be under the name and style of the "La Salle Plank Road company," to construct a plank road to connect their said ferry landing, on the north side of the Illinois river, with the Illinois and Michigan canal, at lock fourteen of said canal, and said company is hereby authorized to exercise all the powers, and enjoy the rights, privileges and immunities. conferred upon the "Salisbury Plank Road company, by an act entitled "An act to incorporate the Salisbury Plank Road company," approved February 12, 1849, and shall also be subject to all the restrictions and liabilities imposed by said act upon said company. This act to be in force from and after its passage. AN ACT to amend an act entitled "An act to incorporate the Illinois Coal Company." In force Jan.29, SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That so 1851. much of the act entitled "An act to incorporate the Illinois Parts of acts reCoal company," approved the 12th of February, 1849, as pealed. authorizes and requires said company to establish a ferry across the Mississippi river; and also, so much of said act construct as requires said company, within the limited time therein. named, to construct and put in operation the railway therein authorized; and also, so much of said act as affixes any disability, forfeiture or penalty whatsoever to the failure of said company to establish said ferry, or to construct or put in operation said railway, (within said limited time) be and the same are hereby repealed; and in particular, that the sixth section of said act be and the same is hereby repealed. Authorized to § 2. That said Illinois Coal company be and are hereby branch roads. authorized to construct and put in operation any branch or branches to said railway, not exceeding six miles in length, appearing in their judgment necessary to or promotive of their business or interests; and for these objects may, by any or all of the ways and means referred to in the act to which this is an amendment, acquire suitable rights of way, lands for convenient and commodious depots, and such other property and rights of property and privileges as may be promotive of the business and interests of said company, or adapted to the uses of said railway and branches. Ferry privilege. Proviso. § 3. That said company be and are hereby authorized to ferry across the Mississippi river the passengers and freight of said railway and branches, and for this purpose to acquire, hold and use any and all descriptions of property, and rights of property auxiliary to this privilege: Provided, that nothing in this act contained shall be so construed as to authorize and empower the said Illinois Coal company, under their original charter or this amendment thereto, to build any branch road, acquire any rights of way, or depots, upon the Mississippi bank below Brooklyn, or upon the island opposite the city of St. Louis commonly called "Bloody Island," or the accretions thereto, Further provi o. without the consent of the owners of said land: And provided, further, that nothing in this act contained shall authorize the said Illinois Coal company to establish any ferry or exercise any ferry rights or franchises upon the said island opposite St. Louis commonly called "Bloody Island," or the accretions thereto, either with or without the consent of the owners of said island. Branch roads not to form part of any § 4. The branch roads authorized under this act, or the one to which this is amendatory, shall be constructed to road extended carry out the legitimate purposes for which said original across the state. charter was granted, and not so as to form any part of a railroad across this state, and shall not be extended in any eastwardly direction from the main trunk, nor shall said company establish a ferry, or hold the same, or exercise any ferry rights or franchises above the town of Brooklyn. APPROVED Jan. 29, 1851. 1851. AN ACT to amend an act incorporating the Illinois Conference Female Academy. In force Jan 29, SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That the name of the Illinois Conference Female Academy shall be and the same is hereby changed to that of the "Illinois Conference Female College ;" and the number of trustees of said institution may be increased to thirty-two. APPROVED Jan. 29, 1851. AN ACT to amend the charter of the Alton and Sangamon Railroad company. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That the president and directors of the Alton and Sangamon Railroad company are hereby authorized to change the route of their railroad, so as to construct their road on the most direct and eligible route from Carlinville to Springfield, anything in their charter to the contrary notwithstanding: Provided, the subscribers residing west of the line adopted by the company, between the point of divergence from the old line and Springfield, may be released from their subscription to stock in said company, and the refunding by said company the amount paid by such subscribers. § 2. In force Jan.29, 1851. AN ACT to incorporate the Young Men's Association of the city of Chicago. In force Jan.30, 1851. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Incorporation. Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That the members of the Young Men's Association of the city of Chicago, and all persons who shall hereafter become associated with them, are hereby constituted a body politic and corporate, by the name of the "Young Men's Association of the city of Chicago," and by that name shall have perpetual succession, with power to make, have and use a common seal, and the same to alter and renew at pleasure, to contract and be contracted with, sue and be sued, implead and be impleaded, answer and be answered unto, in all courts of competent jurisdiction, and shall have all other powers and privileges necessary to fulfil the objects of their incorporation. § 2. The objects of said corporation shall be to establish and maintain a reading room and library, and to pro Powers. Officers. Meetings. Officers. cure literary and scientific lectures, and to promote the intellectual improvement of its members. § 3. The officers of said corporation shall be a president, two vice presidents, corresponding secretary, recording secretary, treasurer, and seven managers. They shall be chosen annually, by ballot, by the members of the corporation, and the persons receiving a majority of the votes of the members present shall be declared elected, and shall hold their respective offices for one year, or until their successors shall be appointed. The above named officers shall compose the executive committee. §. 4. There shall be an annual meeting of the corporation, on the first Saturday of February, in each and every year, for the purpose of electing officers, hearing the report of the executive committee, and transacting all other necessary business. § 5. Said corporation shall have power to define the duties of its officers, appoint such committees and adopt such by-laws as may be necessary for its government, the management of its concerns, and the fulfilment of its objects; and shall be competent in law and equity to take to May hold pro-itself, in its corporate name, real, personal or mixed property, by gift, grant, bargain, and sale, conveyance, will, devise or bequest, of any person or persons whomsoever, and the same estate to grant, bargain, sell, convey, demise, at or place out at any interest, or otherwise dispose of the same, for the use of said corporation, in such manner as shall seem most beneficial thereto. erty. Treasurer. Constitution laws and prop ciation. § 6. Said corporation may require bond and satisfactory security of its treasurer, for the faithful performance of his duties as such officer. § 7. The constitution and by-laws now adopted by said tions and pop- association shall continue in force until the next annual erty of asso- meeting of said association after the passage of this act; and all personal property and effects, of whatever kind or description, now held by said association, or any person or persons in trust therefor, shall, by virtue of this act, vest in and become the property of the corporation hereby created, and may be sued for recovered in the name of said corporation. to exceed capital stock. Real estate not § 8. The association hereby incorporated shall have power and authority, and are hereby authorized, to purchase real estate or other property in the city of Chicago, not exceeding the capital stock created, at such terms as it may be determined by the executive committee aforesaid, to create a capital stock as in this act provided, for the purpose of erecting necessary buildings for the permanent occupation of the association, reading room, library and lecture Capital stock, how subscribed. rooms. 9. For the purpose of purchasing such real estate and erection of permanent buildings as aforesaid thereon, the said executive committee are hereby authorized and empowered, at such time as they may think proper, by resolution to that effect entered upon the record of the proceedings, to create a capital stock of twenty thousand dollars, divided into shares of fifty dollars each, with the privilege at any time thereafter of increasing the same to fifty thousand dollars, if such amount shall by them be deemed necessary for the purposes aforesaid, upon publishing twenty-five days' notice of such resolution in one of the daily newspapers printed in the city of Chicago; at the expiration of which time books shall be opened for the subscription of said stock at the reading rooms of the association, by Thos. Hoyne, William T. Barrow, George Manierre, William C. Doggett, James H. Rees and H. G. Shumway, who are hereby constituted a committee to open said books and solicit subscription for said stock; and the same shall be payable in such instalments and at such times and subject to such forfeitures as shall be prescribed by said executive committee. § 10. After all said capital stock, so created as afore- Meeting of said, shall have been subscribed, a meeting of all the stock- stockholders. holders and members of the association shall be called by the said stock committee, who shall require a payment of five dollars on each one hundred dollars of stock in cash, at the time of said meeting, from each subscriber of stock, on the amount subscribed for by him, and a new election Election of offiof officers shall then take place, who shall hold their cers. offices until the next ensuing regular election. And at such election, and all elections thereafter held, each member of the association shall be entitled to one vote, and each stockholder to one vote, for each and every share of stock he may hold, and a majority of all the votes cast shall be required to make an election: Provided, that no stockholder shall be entitled to vote at such elections who may be in arrears for his payment of the instalment required or called for on his stock, and no member of the association shall vote unless he has first paid up his regular annual and quarterly dues to the association. § 11. As soon as said stock is subscribed the said ex- May borrow ecutive committee shall have power to borrow any sum or money. sums of money, not exceeding the amount of said capital stock, to secure the early completion of said buildings, and for this purpose they are hereby authorized to issue bonds therefor, and pledge all property, real or personal, owned by said association, for the repayment thereof. § 12. This act shall be a public act, and as such shall This a public be received in all courts, and receive a construction favora ble to the accomplishment of its objects. act. § 13. Persons not stockholders may become members, Membership. |