Sec.[Section] 1^st Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois represented in the General Assembly

That there shall be and there is hereby granted to the inhabitants of the several Townships in this State the right of all ferry privileges, in all cases where the school land belonging to the inhabitants of such Township embraces a stream or water course on either side thereof, over which, from the establishment of any public road, it may be necessary to establish any ferry. Provided that if the school land embraces only one side of such Stream so situated as aforesaid, the said Inhabitants of the Townships respectively shall only have the one half of such Ferry privileges.

Sec 2 It shall be the duty of the school commissioner of each County respectively, on the first Monday in June one Thousand eight hundred and thirty nine, and every two years thereafter to lease out to the highest and best bidder all such ferries as may be so situated on the sixteenth section as aforesaid, and execute a lease therefor, and take bond in such sum and with such security as he may deem proper; which lease and bond shall be recorded in the Recorders Office of the County in which the ferry may be; from the date of which recording the lesse[lessee] of any such ferry privilege shall be considered as in possession and entitled to the use of the Ferry privileges, since granted, with the right to take and receive such toll as the County Commissioners Courts may prescribe

Sec 3 The said school Commissioners shall collect annually the amount of any rent due and owing to the Township to which such ferry or ferries may belong and keep and pay and dispose of the same in the same manner as the interest of other

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Township funds are kept, paid out, and disposed of.

Sec 4 If any school land to which there may attach any ferry privileges under the provision of this act shall be situated partly in one County and partly in another, then and in such case it shall be the duty of the school Commissioner of that County in which the largest portion of such school land may be situated, to lease out the same as hereinbefore provided, and to dispose of the same as before directed.

Sec 5 Whenever any school lands shall not be situated in the township to whose inhabitants it belongs, and such Township shall be partly in one County and partly in another, the duty of leasing or otherwise disposing of such school land shall devolve upon the school Commissioner of the county containing the greater number of the legal voters of such Township.

Sec 6 It shall be the duty of the School Commissioner whose duty it may be under the provisions of this Act to lease any ferry privileges to advertise the same at least four weeks previous to the regular day of leasing as herein before mentioned by advertisement in some public newspaper or by written advertisements posted up in four of the most public placed[places] in their Counties respectively of the time and place of such leasing, and the leasing of all such ferries as are herein authorised shall always take place at the County Seats of the Counties respectively in which such ferrys may be situated.

Sec 7 The inhabitants of any township may cause a portion of their school lands to be leased and another portion of said lands to be sold, in the mode

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prescribed by law, if they shall deem the same expedient

Sec 8 Nothing in this act shall be so construed as to prohibit the people of any township from causing the sale of any portion of their school lands, which, by the law now in force, are subject to be sold.

Sec 9 All necessary expenses incurred by the School Commissioner in advertising and leasing or selling any school lands as well as his compensation for his services in the premises, shall be paid out of the rents or interest of such school lands, under the direction of the County Commissioners Court if the township owning such school land, is not incorporated, and under the direction of the Trustees of schools of the Township if the same be incorporated