Sec.[Section] 1^st Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois represented in the General Assembly, That Ezra Baker, Jr. of Wabash County, be and he is hereby authorized to erect and build a mill dam across that branch or portion of the great Wabash River, running on the west side of Coffee Island, next to the Illinois shore, to begin and run as follows, to wit, at or near the foot of the ripple on fractional section fourteen Township two south of range thirteen west on the Illinois side, thence by the Lower Island to the foot of the main or coffee Island: said dam to be of a hight coresponding with a level of the Pool which will be raised by the contemplated improvement, at the head ofcoffee Island , as reported by Edward Smith the engenere to the commissioners of the fund appropriated to improve the navigation of the great Wabash River.

Sec 2^nd That the said Ezra Baker J^r be and he is hereby authorized to take out, either through a race or foreby at or above said dam a sufficient quantity of water to propel any mills or machinery, that he may think proper to establish at or near said dam. provided always that the quantity of water so taken out of the river, shall not prejadice the navigation thereof, by reducing the channal below three feet, provided, further that the said Baker shall not be entitled to the benefits and privileges confered by this act, unless he shall have said dam completed within three years from the first day of December next, and that all the priveleges and immunities granted to the said

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Ezra Baker Jr. by this act, shall be and the same is hereby granted and extended to his Heirs[,] Executors[,] administrators[,] and assigns so long as the same aforesaid shall not inundate the land of private persons, or injure the navigation of the aforesaid River, and all laws or parts of laws coming within the perview or meaning of this act are hereby repealed