Sec.[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That the president and directors of the Rushville Railroad Company be, and they are hereby, authorized and empowered to change the construction of the whole or any part of the road mentioned in that act to which this is a supplement, provided they may deem it expedient so to do, so as to construct and make it a clay or McAdamized turnpike road, suitable to common transportation in all wagons and carts and every kind of wheeled carriages, and for all ordinary traveling and business: Provided, That said company shall not in any event interfere with any right or privilege heretofore conferred upon the Springfield and Beardstown Railroad Company, nor construct any road in the county of Cass upon ground which the said Springfield and Beardstown Railroad Company have the right to occupy, except in crossing the same.

Sec. 2. That the said president and directors be, and they are hereby, empowered to extend the said road, either by railway or by a clay or McAdamized turnpike road, from the Illinois river to Virginia, in Cass county; and for which purpose they shall be, and they are hereby, vested with all the powers and privileges conferred upon them in the original act to which this is a supplement, subject also to the several restrictions contained in the same act.

Sec. 3. That the Winchester, Lynnville, and Jacksonville Railroad Company, and the Pittsfield and Mississippi Railroad Company, be, and they are hereby severally authorized to

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change the construction of said railroads into turnpike roads; and that the time allowed in the charters of said companies, for the commencement and completion of said roads, be extended five years longer than the time now allowed by said charters. 2

Approved, February 6, 1839.