Sec.[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the people of the state of Illinois represented in the General Assembly That John Atchison, David Wann, T. B. Farnsworth, H. H. Gear,Thomas Melville, F Stake, and W^m C. Bostwick are hereby appointed Commissioners for superintending subscription to the capital stock of said Company and the said commissioners shall open one or more subscription Books for said stock in the town of Galena on the first Monday in May 1839.

Sec. 2. The election of the directors of said Company shall be conducted as heretofore provided, and shall hold their offices until the first Monday in May 1840 and until others are elected in their stead, And the directors for every subsequent year shall be elected on the first Monday in May.

Sec. 3^d The charter of the said Company hereby Ammen Amended shall be void and of no effect unless the stock shall be subscribed and thecompany commence operations within two years after the passage of this Act. And the twenty second section of the Act to which this is Amendatory, as well as every other part of said act conflicting herewith, are hereby repealed.