Sec.[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That John Douglass, and Eli Vickers, their heirs and assigns, are hereby authorized to build a mill-dam across Rector’s Fork of the Saline, in Gallatin county, on the north-east fourth of the north-east quarter of section twenty-eight, in township seven south, range seven east:2 Provided, Said land as above described shall belong to the said Douglass and Vickers: Provided, also, That if any person or persons shall sustain any loss or damage by the water overflowing any land or any other property whatever, occasioned by the construction of said mill-dam, then and in that case, the said Douglass and Vickers shall be accountable and pay to all such person or persons as may be damaged thereby, which damage shall be ascertained and assessed by a jury of six good and lawful men, freeholders of the district in which the said damage may accrue.

Sec. 2. The jury shall be summoned by the sheriff or any constable of said county, or they may be mutually chosen by the parties concerned, and sworn by some justice of the peace of said county.

Sec. 3. Said jury may be sworn by the officer so summoning them, and the jury after being sworn as aforesaid, shall be governed in all respects as to the assessment of the damage, and their duties otherwise as jurors, are in the act regulating mills and millers, approved, February the ninth, one thousand eight hundred and twenty seven.3

Sec. 4. The sheriff or constable and the jury shall receive fees in the same manner as are allowed in similar cases. This act to be in force from and after its passage.

Approved, February 24, 1841.