Sec.[Section] 1 Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois represented in the General assembly That ^Horatio P Newhall, R W. Carson[,] G. W. Fuller[,] & F. Stahl & their associates-^ the persons comprising the association in the Town of Galena Styled the “Galena Chamber of Commence” are hereby created a body politic and corporate under the name and style of the “Galena Chamber of Commence” and by that name may sue and be sued, implead and be impleaded, receive and hold property and effects, real and personal, by gift or devise or purchase and dispose of the same by sale[,] lease[,] or otherwise; said property so held not to exceed Twenty^Ten^ thousand dollars ^nor shall saidcompany hold real estate to an amount exceeding one hundred &^^sixty acres^; may have a common seal and alter the same from time to time and make such rules and regulations and bye Laws as may be within the scope of theirassociation and not contrary to the Laws of the Land

Sec. 2^d That the rules and bye Laws of the said association shall be the rules and bye Laws of the Corporation hereby created until the same shall be regularly repealed or altered and that the present officers of this Association shall be the officers of this Corporation hereby created until their respective offices shall regularly expire and be vacated.