Sec.[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That Charles J. Weed, his heirs and assigns, be and they are hereby authorized to build and continue a mill dam, on the Skillet fork of the Little Wabash, at the mill shoals, on the west half of the south west quarter of section twenty, in town three south, of range eight east, or on the north east quarter of the south east quarter of section nineteen, in town three south, of range eight east,2 at or near the place where the late mill dam stood, provided, such dam shall be built within three years from this date;3 provided also, That said dam shall not be built more than eight feet high, with an apron of twenty feet slope, from the top of said dam which may be built with stone or timber.

Approved, January 27, 1837.