Sec.[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, repr[e]sented in the General Assembly, That the name of the town of Selma, in the county of Wabash shall be, and it is hereby changed, and said town shall hereafter be called and known in law as “Mount Carmel,” and the plat recorded as the plat of the town of Selma shall be considered as an addition to the original town of Mount Carmel, and called the river addition to the town of Mount Carmel. All writings and conveyances, describing lots as situated in the river addition to the town of Mount Carmel shall be deemed and considered as referring to the recorded plat of the town of Selma.

Sec. 2. A right to establish a ferry across the Wabash river, at or adjacent to lot number thirty-three, in the river addition to the town of Mount Carmel, is hereby granted to Hiram Bell and his associates, proprietors of the river addition to the town of Mount Carmel aforesaid, and to their heirs and assigns forever; which ferry, when established as aforesaid, shall be kept and regulated in the manner pointed out by the act entitled “an act to provide for the establishment of ferries, toll bridges and turnpike roads,” passed 12th February, 1827;2 and said Bell and his associates, heirs and assigns, are hereby authorised and empowered to demand and receive from all persons crossing said ferry the following rates of ferriage, to wit: for each four wheeled loaded wagon, with four horses or more, one dollar; for same unloaded, seventy-five cents; for each four wheeled two horse loaded wagon, sixty-two and a half cents; for same unloaded, forty-four cents; for each person and single horse, eighteen and three-fourth cents; for each single or led horse, six and one-fourth cents; for each foot passenger, six and one-fourth cents; for each head of neat cattle, four cents; for each head of hogs, sheep or goats, two cents: for each two wheeled cart or gig and driver, thirty-seven and a half cents; for each sleigh or sled,

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and one horse and driver, twenty-five cents. All other rates may be regulated by the county commissioners’ court.

Sec. 3. That so much of the State road3 leading from Fox river to Mount Carmel as lies west of Bompas creek,4 on section twenty-two, in township one north, and range fourteen west, in Edwards county,5 be and the same is hereby so altered as to make said road run through the centre of said section of land from east to west.

Sec. 4. That Hiram Bell and Abner Armstrong are hereby appointed commissioners to view, mark and locate a road upon the nearest and best ground, commencing at the ferry landing herein above granted, and running thence westerly until it shall intersect the road from Mount Carmel to Lawrenceville, or if said commissioners should believe it more conducive to the public convenience they may extend said road from the ferry to some street in the town of Mount Carmel; and said road when located shall be opened and kept in repair as State roads.

Approved, 24th February, 1837.