Section 1. Be it Enacted by the people of the state of Illinois Represented in the General Assembly, That if the commissioners of the Illinois and Michigan canal shall be of opinion, that a sale of parts of the Canal Lands during the next year, will advance the Interest of the state, by affording facilities to contractors in procuring supplies; and places of boarding for hands employed upon the canal, or otherwise, they are authorized to select Lots or tracts of Land at convenient points along the line and sell the same for the purposes aforesaid, and subdivide the said Lots or tracts, into Lots of not less than forty nor more than Eighty acres the division to be made to correspond with similar divisions of Lands sold by the United states, and the selection to be made so that no Lot shall lie within less than one half mile of the line of the canal, and the Quantity not to exceed in value Two ^Four^ Hundred Thousand Dollars, and the Lands so selected shall be valued advertized, and sold in the manner required for selling Lots in Chicago and Ottowa, but the valuation shall not be made until within twenty days of the sale, and shall be made as well ^with reference^ to the terms of sale, as all other considerations affecting the market value thereof. The place of sale shall be fixed by the commissioners, The terms of sale shall be one [fiftieth?] ^tenth^ of the purchase money to be paid at the time of sale, and the balance

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payable in four ^ten^ equal annual instalments bearing an Interest of six percent per annum from the date of sale, payable annually in advance, subject to the same conditions and provisions prescribed in reference to the sale of Lots in Chicago and Ottowa.

Section 2. No two sixty acres ^Quarter sections^ of Land shall be sold under the provisions of this act which shall adjoin each other.

Section 3. The terms of the sales authorized to be made, by the act which was approved on the second day of March in the year one Thousand Eight Hundred and Thirty seven, shall be the same as those prescribed in this act, and the sales under that act shall be limited to the actual wants of the canal funds.

Section 4. In negotiating Loans which have been, or may be authorized for the construction of the canals the Governor, shall, if practicable contract to receive the money borrowed in sums of one Hundred Thousand Dollars or less at ^such^ [...?] times as the same may be wanting for use upon the canal.

Section 5. In the construction of the navigable feeder and Lateral canal at Ottowa the canal commissioners, may so alter the plans heretofore prescribed, as to connect

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the said feeder Lateral canal with Fox River instead of the Illinois River, or make any other changes, which in their Judgment may be best calculated to enhance the value of state property, and the usefulness of the canal.

Section 6. The canal commissioners are authorized to make a resurvey of those parts, or additions to the Town of Ottowa, wherein Lots are authorized to be sold, and change the lines of the Lots and Streets, so as to make those lines correspond with the lines of that part of the Town wherein the Lots have heretofore been sold, or they may make the said lines in such manner as they may deem best for the Interest of the state,

Section 7 The canal commissioners are authorised to Enlarge the natural Bason at the confluence of the North and South Branches of the Chicago River, so as to render the same as useful and convenient as possible, and Block Number seven of the canal Lots in the city of [...?] Chicago, shall be reserved from sales for the purpose of exchanging the same for Block Number Fourteen which will be required to be removed in the Enlargement of the said Bason, and the said commissioners are hereby required to [...?] cause the aforesaid

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Block Number fourteen, [...?] to be appropriated for the purpose aforesaid, and to proceed to obtain the title to the same, in the manner provided by Law for obtaining Land or materials for the use of the canal.

Section 8. When the Board of appraisement shall appraise the said Block fourteen they shall also appraise the aforesaid Block Seven, and if the owners of the Block fourteen will take in exchange for the same, Block Number seven, at the appraisement thereof, the canal commissioners are authorized to make the Exchange, taking from said owner a sufficient conveyance for said Block to the state, and giving to such owner as certificate of purchase for Block seven, stating therein the facts of the transaction, and if the Block seven shall be appraised to more than Block fourteen, the said owner shall be required to pay the diference in a reasonable time to be fixed by the canal commissioners, and upon such payment being made, the said owner shall be Entitled to a patent for the same [...?] but if said Block shall be valued to less, than Block seven Fourteen, the same sum or the same sum, he shall be entitled to a patent upon Executing the conveyance aforesaid, if the difference in value shall be in favor of the said owner, the canal commissioners

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shall pay the same out of the canal fund, but if no such agreement is made, as herein contemplated, the aforesaid Block Fourteen shall nevertheless be obtained and appropriated as herein provided, and Block number seven shall be subject to sale as other Lots in Chicago now are.

Section 9. The Treasurer of the Board of Canal Commissioners shall not hereafter be required to perform any other duties, than those pertaining to the office of Treasurer alone, nor shall he hereafter be considered as one of the Board of Canal Commissioners, the said Board shall hereafter be composed of the President and acting commissioners, [...?] who shall perform all the duties required of the canal commissioners, except such as relate to the duties of Treasurer,—nevertheless, it is hereby declared and Enacted, that whenever the Board of as organized by this section, shall disagree in opinion upon any Question, matter, or thing in relation to the canal, the powers or duties of the Board, or of any agent, or any other matter touching whatever touching their duties as canal commissioners, the Treasurer is hereby constituted and appointed the umpire to give the casting vote upon every such difference [and?] in giving such vote he shall be considered as bound for the consequences thereof as

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a canal commissioner, and the canal^Board of^ commissioners shall act upon all decisions made by the umpire as aforesaid, as though the three making the decision, were all Canal commissioners.

Section 10 In the event that the funds provided by existing Laws shall prove insufficient to meet the expenditures upon the canal for the years 1837. and 1838, the Governor is authorized to negotiate a Loan upon the faith and credit of the state, not Exceeding in amount Three Hundred Thousand Dollars to meet any deficit which may occur, said Loan shall be negotiated in the manner and upon the terms, and the state assumes the responsibilities, as provided for in the relation to the Loan authorized by the act Entitled “An act for the construction of the Illinois and Michigan Canal approved on the 9^th of January 1836, provided that said Loan shall not be made until the whole of the means available under existing Laws shall have been exhausted,

Sec 11. The salary or compensation of the Chief engineer upon the canal shall not hereafter exceed the rate of three thousand dollars per annum, and the salaries of the Junor ^assistant^ Engineers shall not hereafter exceed Eighteen hundred dollars, per annum, and the junior assistants shall not hereafter receive a salary more than one thousand dollars per annum, and the secretary of the board shall not hereafter be allowed more than fifteen hundred dollars per annum for his salary