In force, Jan.[January] 12, 1839.
AN ACT to amend “An act to incorporate the Mississippi and Rock River Canal Company.”
1Corporation to have two years in addition, to commence and complete canal.
Sec.[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That the corporation enacted by the act to which this is an amendment, shall have two years, in addition to the time allowed by said act, both for the commencement
and completion of said canal in said act mentioned, without working a forfeiture of
said charter, any thing in said act of incorporation to the contrary notwithstanding.
Approved, January 12, 1839.
1George W. Harrison introduced SB 37 in the Senate on December 19, 1838. The Senate passed the bill on January 2, 1839. The House of Representatives concurred on January 7. On January 12, the Council of Revision approved the bill and the act became law.
Journal of the House of Representatives of the Eleventh General Assembly of the State
of Illinois, at Their First Session, Begun and Held in the Town of Vandalia, December
3, 1838 (Vandalia,IL: William Walters, 1838), 158, 162, 164, 176, 191, 195; Journal of the Senate of the Eleventh General Assembly of the State of Illinois, at
Their First Session, Begun and Held in the Town of Vandalia, December 3, 1838 (Vandalia, IL; William Walters, 1838), 94, 102, 119, 129, 143, 150-51, 168.
Printed Document, 1 page(s), Incorporation Laws of the State of Illinois, Passed by the Eleventh General Assembly (Vandalia, IL: William Walters, 1839), 15, GA Session: 11-1,