Sec[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois represented in the General assembly; That the County Commissioners Court of Sangamon County be, and they are hereby authorised and required to build a bridge across the Sangamon River at or near Stephenson’s Ferry, on the road leading from Springfield to Peoria.

Sec 2. The said county commissioners shall commence the building of said bridge on or before the second Monday in March 1836 and shall have the same completed on or before the first Monday of November following. The said bridge shall be so constructed as to be at least twenty feet wide and of sufficient height to let drift wood pass underneath.

Sec 3. The County Commissioners of Sangamon county shall keep said bridge in good repair so as, at all times, to afford a safe conveyance for all persons and their property over the same

Sec 4. The expenses of building said bridge shall be defrayed out of the county treasury of Sangamon County and should there not be funds in the said treasury to defray the expenses aforesaid, then and in that event the county commissioner’s Court of said Sangamon County are hereby authorised and required, to levy a tax on the taxable property of said county sufficient to defray said expenses, and also such other expenses as may be from time to time incured in keeping said

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bridge in repair. and the said commissioners may from time to time build and erect such ^other^ bridges, and in the same way, as they may think necessary and expedient, as is herein ^above^ provided for. This act to be in force from and after its passage.