Sec.[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That Amzi Doolittle be authorized and licensed to keep, for the term of ten years, a ferry across the Mississippi river, at section two, in township seven north, and in range eight, west of the fourth principal meridian, in the county of Hancock.

Sec. 2. The said Doolittle shall cause said ferry to be furnished with a good light boat or boats, if more than one be necessary, and of sufficient strength and dimensions for the safe and speedy transportation of all passengers, their teams, goods, and chattels; and said boat or boats shall be well furnished with men of sufficient strength and skill to manage them; and, in other respects relating to the management of said ferry, the said Doolittle shall be governed by the provisions of an act, entitled “An act to provide for the establishment of ferries, toll-bridges, and turnpike roads,” approved, February 12, 1837.

Sec. 3. The said Doolittle shall be allowed the same rates of ferriage as are now allowed by the county commissioners’ court of Hancock county to Edward White, for similar services at his ferry.2

Approved, February 22, 1839.