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 second section of the act2 of the 2d March, 1833, entitled “An act to explain and amend the act concerning the Saline 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 near 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 causeways.

Sec. 2. If the unexpended balance of said appropriation shall 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.

Approved, Jan. 15, 1835.