Sec[Section] 1 Be it enacted by the people of the state of Illinois represented in the General Assembly,
That Stanton Prentiss, of the County of Rock Island, is hereby authorized, and licensed to keep a Ferry for ten years across the Mississippi river, at Township sixteen North and in Range six west of the fourth principal meridian, in the County of Rock Island.
Sec 2 Said Prentiss, shall cause said ferry to be furnished with a tight good boat, for the speedy and safe transportation of all passengers, their teams, horses, Cattle[,] and other animals, as well as their goods and effects. said boat, shall be furnished with men, of suitable Strength and skill to manage the same.
Sec 3 Said Prentiss shall receive such rates for crossing at said Ferry as are now allowed ferries like situated, by the County Commissioners Court of Rock Island County, and in the management and regulation of said ferry, the said Prentiss, shall be governed by the requisitions of the act, entitled “an act to provide for the establishment of ferries, toll Bridges, and turnpike roads” approved February the twelfth One thousand eight-hundred and twenty-seven. This act to take effect from and after the date of its passage.
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02/10/1841
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Feby 10th 1841
John Calhoun
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An act to authoriseStanton Prentiss to Establish a ferry across the Mississippi River
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Handwritten Document, 2 page(s), Folder 124, HB 176, GA Session: 12-2, Illinois State Archives (Springfield, IL),