Sec[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That the Auditor of Public accounts is, hereby directed to issue his warrant on the Treasurer of the state; to be paid from the Canal fund, in favor of Rene Paul, for the sum of Four hundred and Eighty dollars; ^with 6 per cent interest thereon from the same became due, until paid^2 being the sum of four dollars per day, to be paid to him, for the time actually occupied, in the service of the state, under its authority, as Engineer, in Surveying and delineating the canal route, from Lake Michigan to the Illinois river, in the years 1823, and 1824.

Sec 2. There Shall be allowed to Lewis Bailey, and [such other persons?] ^John Waddle^3 engaged by the Canal Commissioners; and [many?] have4 claims for services rendered, in the employment of the state; or for monies expended in, and relating to the Survey of Said Canal, in the years 1823, and 1824, to be established before the Auditor of Public accounts, to have been rindered or paid, such sum, as shall appear to be justly due to each; to be paid out of the Canal fund; to be drawn on the warrant of the Auditor, which he is hereby authorized to issue, on such proof being made to him.5