Sec.[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That Rescarick Ayres, Henry M. Blanchard, Chester Swallow, Daniel Henderson, and William Colton, of the county of Greene, are hereby created a body politic and corporate, under the name of the “White Hall Hotel Company;” and by that name may sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, and shall have perpetual succession for the term of thirty years, and no longer.

Sec. 2. Said corporation shall have power to erect a building for a hotel in the town of White Hall, in the county of Greene and State of Illinois, and for that purpose may make all contracts, and own and occupy all land and other property necessary to effect said object, and no more. Said corporation may divide the stock of said company into as many shares as to said corporators may seem best; and said stock may be increased to a sum sufficiently large to put up and furnish said hotel, and no more. Said corporation may appoint all officers and agents of said corporation necessary to effect said object, and may make all by-laws proper and necessary to the same; and said corporation, at the final dissolution thereof, or at any other time, may sell and by their agents properly appointed convey said land and building, and all other property belonging to said company.

Sec. 3. La Fayette McCritters, John Keys, F. Z. Hicks, Paris Mason, and Rescarick Ayres are hereby created a body politic and corporate, under the name, firm, and style of “The Grafton Hotel Company,” with powers to erect a building at the town of Grafton in Greene county, to be furnished and used as a hotel; and said corporation shall have the same power, and continue the same time, as is provided in the foregoing section for the White Hall Hotel Company: Provided, That neither of said companies shall ever issue any notes or other checks, to be used as a circulating medium, or have any banking privileges whatever.

Approved 3d March, 1837.