Sec[Section] 1 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois represented in the General Assembly. That Alexis Phelps & Stephen S Phelps be and they are hereby authorised to establish and keep a ferry for Ten years across the Mississippi River at the Town of Oquawka in the County of Warren in the State of Illinois.

Sec 2 The Said Phelp^s shall cause said ferry to be furnished with a tight good boat. and sufficient for the speedy and safe transportation of all passengers, their teams, horses, cattle and effect^s; said boat shall be furnished, with men of suiable strength and skill to manage the same.

Sec 3 The Said Phelps shall receive such rates for crossing at said ferry, as are now allowed them by the County Commissioners court of Warren County; and in the management and regulations of said ferry, the said Phelps shall be governed by the requisition of the act, entitled “an act to provide for the establishment of ferries, toll bridges, and turnpike roads approved February 12^th 1827” This act is to take effect from and after the date of its passage.