Sec.[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That the Commissioner of the second judicial circuit is hereby authorized and required to pay, out of the internal improvement fund appropriated to the Western mail route, to John Winstanly and

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Hugh Duffy the sum of three thousand dollars; and that the acceptance of the same shall be bar to any cause of action, at law or equity, which may have existed upon contracts numbered four and six, which were entered into by said Winstanly and Duffy, of the one part, and the people of the State of Illinois, by their Commissioner, of the second part: Provided, That said payment shall be made out of the special appropriation made for the American bottom division of the said work.2

Sec. 2. The appropriation made by the foregoing section shall be paid upon condition that the Board of Public Works shall, upon an examination of the accounts, and all matters connected with the same, be satisfied that the claimants are entitled to the sum claimed upon the principles of equity and justice; and if the said Board shall be satisfied, from an examination as aforesaid, that said claimants are entitled to any pay from the State, the Board shall pay the same; Provided the amount paid shall not exceed the sum herein appropriated.3

Approved, March 2, 1839.