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Sec.[Section] 1 Be it Enacted by the people of the State of Illinois represented in the General Assembly that Charles S. Dorsey of the County of Tazewell be and he is hereby authorised to Keep a public ferry across the Illinois River from Section Number one in Township Number
[Five?] Twenty five ^North^ in Range Five west of the Third principal meridian to the opposite shore of said
River said Ferry being hereby established at said point.
Sec. 2 The said Dorsey shall at all times keep and maintain in good repair, good and sufficient boat or
boats with suitable equipments, propelled by oars or animal or steam power for the purpose and sufficiently maned, for the purpose of at all times ferrying and transporting across said River at all times persons teams wagons carts horses cattle and sheep, and for a compensation therefore
shall be entitled to receive such rates of ferriage as shall be fixed and established
by the County Commissioners Courts of the Counties of Tazwell and Peoria.
Sec. 3 That if said Charles S. Dorsey, his agent or Keeper of said ferry shall at any time neglect or omit to provide suitable
boat or boats propelled either by oars animal or steam power in good condition, suff[i]ciently maned and equipped, within eighteen months from the passage of this act, or if the said
Dorsey his agent or keeper of said ferry shall after suitable boat or boats have been provided
for said ferry refuse on application made at proper hours and when there there is no apparent
^manifest^2 danger, to ferry across said river persons teams wagons carts horses cattle sheep and hogs, then and in such either of such case of neglect or refusal, the privilege herein granted to said Dorsey
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shall be null and void.
Sec. 4. If the said Dorsey shall establish ^and put in operation^ said Ferry in conformity with the pre previous Provisions of this act no ferry
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other ferry of any description shall be hereafter established within miles of the point named in the first section of this bill.
This act to take effect and be in force from and its passage.
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A Bill for an act to authorise Charles S. Dorsey to keep a ferry across the Illinois River.
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Sel. Com.
Voris.
Richardson.
Elkin.
Voris.
Richardson.
Elkin.
1William Moore from the Committee on Finance, of which Abraham Lincoln was also a member, introduced HB 226 in the House of Representatives on February 11, 1837. The House amended the bill and then referred it to a select
committee, which reported back on February 14, recommending its rejection. The House
then decided against reading the bill a third time.
Illinois House Journal. 10th G. A., 1st sess., 555, 587.
Handwritten Document, 2 page(s), Folder 212, HB 226, GA Session 10-1, Illinois State Archives (Springfield, IL) ,