1 Be it enacted by the People of the state of Illinois represented in the General assembly, That John P Wilkinson, Matthew Stacy, James Dunlap, James Tilton, Ira Davenport, T. T. January, D B Ayers, John Hurst, Porter Clay, Philip Coffman, and their successors, and associates, be and they ar[e] hereby constituted a body politic and corporate under the name of the “Jacksonville Hotel Company.” Said Hotel to be located in the town of Jacksonville in morgan County, and by the name aforesaid shall have power to sue and be sued, contract and be contracted with, sue & be sued, plead and be impleaded in all courts in this state, and shall be vested with all powers, and privileges necessary to the object of their incorporation, as are hereinafter defined and provided.

sec[section] 2 The Capital stock of said Corporation shall be ten thousand dollars with liberty to increase the same to forty thousand dollars, which capital stock shall be divided into shares of fifty dollars each.

sec 3 The individuals aforesaid, shall be commissioners to open books for the subscription of the Capital

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of said Company at Jacksonville, and at such other places, and at such times as to them may seem proper. And said Corporation shall be entitled to all the rights, and privileges, and be subject to all the penalties and forfeitures, granted to the Alton Hotel Company, by an act entitled “an act to incorporate the Alton Hotel Company” approved February 12^th 1835. Provided however that said Corporation shall not deal in Bills of exchange, and shall exist for thirty years.

sec 4 The Proviso to the 7^th section of an act entitled “an act to incorporate the Jacksonville Female Academy ^approved 27 January 1835^” be and the same is hereby repealed.

This act to take effect from and after its passage