Sec[Section] 1 Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois represented in the General Assembly; That the unexpended balance of the appropriation of five hundred dollars to be laid out, under the direction of the county commissioners’ court of Gallatin county, on the road leading from Shawneetown to Equality made by the 2^nd section of the act of the 2^d March 1833, entitled “An act to explain and amend the amend the act concerning the salines reserves, a penitentiary &c[etc.]” be, and the same is hereby directed to be laid out, under the authority aforesaid, towards the building of a bridge, and the necessary causeways across Cypress creek on the old road laid out and opened by the United States, which leads from Shawneetown across Cypress and the North fork to Equality, provided, and this change of the application of said unexpended balance is made upon this condition, that the inhabitants interested in said road, shall raise, by voluntary subscription, a sum, which, when added to said unexpended balance, shall be sufficient, in the opinion of said court, to construct said bridge and causeway.

Sec 2 If the unexpended balance of said appropriation should not be realized and ready to be paid over, when the necessary voluntary subscriptions shall be raised, it shall be competent for the subscribers to proceed with and complete said work with their own means, and on doing so, to the satisfaction of said court they shall be entitled to receive, to their own use said unexpended balance, whenever the same shall come under the control of said Court, to be paid to each in proportion to his subscription.