Wheras, the persons named in first section of an act, entitled an act, to incorporate the Illinois Central Rail Road Company; approved January 16^th 1836, have not performed any act by which the right, of the general assembly to repeal their charter, could be taken away and wheras it is believed that the highly important object, of the above recited act, can be promoted with greater advantage to the Public, by having the contemplated canal constructed under the deriction of the state therefore.

Be it enacted by the people of the state of Illinois represented in the general assembly that the act entitled an act, to incorporate the Illinois Central Rail Road Company, approved January 16^th 1836, be & the same is hereby repealed.