Sec.[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois represented in the General Assembly, That the board of Commissioners of Public Works be and they are hereby authorized and required, so soon as they shall be officially informed, that the State of Indiana have granted the right of way or whenever the said board is satisfied that the said right of way is secured to the State of Illinois, for the construction of the Continuation of the easterly ends of the Northern Cross Rail Road and of the Central Branch rail road, through the territory of the said State of Indiana, to the intersection of the Wabash and Erie Canal, that the said board take early measures to cause the lines of the said rail roads to be surveyed and located to the intersection of the said Canal.

Sec. 2. That where the said lines of Rail road shall be so extended, surveyed and located the portions of the said Rail Roads within the Territory of Indiana shall be carried on and Constructed in the same manner as though the said extended lines were situated within this State, the said Central branch rail road to terminate on the right Bank of the Wabash River opposite Terre Haute, and the Northern Cross rail road at such point on the said right bank of the Wabash river, as shall or may be prescribed or permitted by the laws of Indiana, and as may be agreed and acceeded to by the board of Commissioners of Public works of the State of Illinois, any

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thing contained in the ninth division of the eighteenth section of the act, entitled an “act to establish and maintain a general system of internal improvements” to the contrary notwithstanding.

Sec. 3. So much of the said ninth division of the eighteenth section of the above recited act as gives a direction to the said northern cross rail road from Danville, towards Layfayette Indiana is hereby repealed.

Sec. 4. Should the Legislature of Indiana at their present session authorize the Construction of the said Rail Roads, or either of them on the part of the Said State of Indiana, so much of this act as authorizes the board of Public Works of Illinois to survey[,] locate[,] and Construct the same, shall be void. And the said board of Public Works are hereby authorized to agree with the board of Internal improvements of Indiana, on the proper point or points at the State line, for Connecting the said roads of Illinois and Indiana or either of them, and to connect the same, at such points or points, provided that the tracts of the roads in both States shall correspond in width, so as to form a continuous line of transit, without transhipment.