Sec[Section] 1 Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois represented in the General Assembly That Willis Hargrave and James Green and such other persons ^or persons^ as they may associate with them and their heirs and assigns be and they are hereby authorized to erect and establish a grist and saw mill at and in connexion with the dam and lock which they are now building on the Saline River at the place comonally known and called the Big Ripple and to keep use ocupy and enjoy the same for the space of twenty years from and after the passage of this act. But the grant made in the preceding part of this section shall not avail the grantees thereof so as to injure the navigation of said Saline River, and shall be understood to extend no further than to authorize them to use so much water as may be at any time over and above that quantity required for ordinary navigation

Sec 2 The said James Green Willis Hargrave and their associates or assigns, in Consideration of the grant of privilege in the foregoing Section, shall during the space of twenty years from and after the passage of this act or at least from and ^after^ the completion of the locks and dams on the said Saline River during the remainder of the said twenty years keep in good repair and condition, the Dam and lock at the place called the Big Ripple on said River and keep ^good^ able and sufficient hands and assitance at all reasonable hours and times, and permit aid and assist all boats and other vessels to pass up and down through and by way of said lock free of toll and

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and without any let hindrence or delay unless, the said delay be caused by unavoidable accidents, but not by negligence

Sec 3 That, For and in consideration of the privileges granted in the first section of this act, so soon as the other lock and dam now erecting at the lower Ripple upon said Saline River shall be completed and ready for use, It shall be the duty of the said James Green Willis Hargrave their associates and assigns to keep the same in like good repair and condition as the lock and dam mentioned in the 2^d section of this act, and keep at all times good and sufficent aid & hands to permit and assist boats and other vessels navigating the said River to pass up and down the same

Sec 4 That the said James Green Willis Hargrave their associates and assigns may demand and receive of and from all the owners and others of all boats and other vessels navigating the said^d^ River and pasing the said Lock at the lower Ripple as mentioned in the third section of this act, such toll and Compensation as the County Commissioners Court of Gallatin County may from time to time fix ordain and establish, and the said County Commissioners Court are hereby authorized and required to fix and establish such toll and Compensation from time to time, and the said Court in fixing the rates of toll as aforesaid shall not in fixing such rates allow a greater ^rate^ on account of the probable expence of keeping up and repairing the said locks and dams, but shall fix the same

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with reference to a Just compensation for aiding and assisting boats and other vessels passing up and down said River

Sec 5 That so soon as the said James Green and Willis Hargrave their associates or assigns shall erect said water and saw mill at the Big Ripple as aforesaid the obligations and provisions of this act shall take effect and be binding upon them or any or all of them, and if the said James Green Willis and Hargrave their associates or assigns shall fail to comply with the requisitions of this act according to its true intent and spirit, the privileges herein granted shall be from thenceforth forfeited, and the same as well as the tolls on said lock at the lower Ripple, shall enure to the use of the County of Gallatin

Sec 6 That so soon as the said Willis Hargrave and James Green of their associates or assigns shall accept the privileges granted by this act with the conditions herein imposed they shall under their proper hands notify the County Commissioners Court of Gallatin County of such their disposition, and the same shall be by said Court at their next term entered on the records of said Court

Sec 7 That the Commissioners appointed by the second Section of an act entitled “an act relating to the Gallatin Saline and the lands belonging to the same approved Jan[January] 16^th 1836 and their successors in office shall make a full and complete report to the Legislature and to the County Commissioners Court of the County of Gallatin of their actings and doings

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by virtue of said ^act^ and whenever a vacancy shall occur in said Office it shall be the duty of the County Commissioners Court to fill the same

Sec 8 That any Commissioners who has in his hands any money to the fund appropriated by the act of Jan 16^th 1836 as aforesaid, without it having been applied to the objects thereby designated, shall place the same under the control of the board of Commissioners in the Bank of Illinois or place required by said act, and upon failure to do so, any one of the board is hereby authorized to bring suit in his own name as such Commissioners for such money so illegally detained, and the acts and doings and Contracts and agreements in relation to the letting the work for the improvement of the Saline made; done, and entered into, concerning the same in pursuance of law are hereby Confirmed and made Valid, and they shall also be empowered to sue and be sued, defend and be defended against, in any Court having Jurisdiction of the subject matter of the suit brought