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 eastern ends of the Northern Cross railroad, and of the Central Branch railroad, 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 railroad to be surveyed and located to the intersection of the saidcanal .

Sec. 2. That when the said lines of railroad shall be so extended, surveyed, and located, the portions of the said railroads 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 railroad to terminate on the right bank of the Wabash river opposite Terre Haute; and the Northern Cross railroad, 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 acceded to by the Board of Commissioners of Public Works of the State of Illinois, any 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act as gives a direction to the said Northern Cross railroad from Danville towards Lafayette, Indiana, is hereby repealed.

Sec. 4. Should the Legislature of Indiana at their present session authorize the construction of the said railroads, 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 point or points: Provided, That the tracks of the roads in both States shall correspond in width so as to form a continuous line of transit without transshipment.

Approved, February 28, 1839.