1 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois represented in the General assembly. That it shall be the duty of the Board of Public Works, in ordering contracts to be let hereafter, to on any of the Rail Roads provided to be constructed under the provisions of a^n^ bill to “act to establish and maintain a general system of Internal Improvements”, to have the contracts let out in such manner, and that the roads or work put or to be put under contract shall form & constitute continuous lines of Rail Road.

2 Said2 Board of Public Works shall not hereafter permit any contracts parts of ^of any Rail^ roads to be put under contract, in places where the same [...?] will be detached and unconnected with lines parts of roads heretofore put under contract.

3 All parts of Rail Roads hereafter to be put under contract, shall commence at Navigable streams, and shall be ordered to be constructed in continuous lines from said Navigable streams. Provided, That where any of said Rail Roads join the State line without reaching any navigable streams, then said roads shall be constructed in continuous lines from the points where the said road intersect the state line.