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Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois Represented in the General Assembly
That Jesse Benson be and he is hereby authorised to construct ^and continue^ a mill dam across spoon River on section nine in Township four north[,] range three east of the fourth principle meridian. Provided That the said Benson shall own the lands on both sides of the stream where the said dam shall be constructed.
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A Bill entitled An An Act to authorise the person therein named to construct a mill dam
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1These legislators formed a select committee in the Senate that considered the bill.
Illinois Senate Journal. 1836. 10th G. A., 1st sess., 201.
Handwritten Document, 2 page(s), Folder 331, SB 69, GA Session 10-1, Illinois State Archives (Springfield, IL) ,