Sec[Section] 1 Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That the third section of an act entitled “an act to incorporate the Quincy, Griggsville, Jacksonville and Springfield Turnpike Company,” approved first March, 1837, be, and the same is hereby amended, so as to permit said Company to commence the construction of the turnpike therein provided for, at any time within five years and to complete the same as therein provided, in ten years, without forfeiting said charter or rendering said act null and void.

This act to be in force from and after its passage.