Whereas the existing leases in the Gallatin Saline are about to expire on the first of December 1840 and whereas also it is to be apprehended that salt making will altogether cease unless some Legisla[tive] action is immediately had, and whereas also it is ^in^expedient that the wells and salt springs shou[ld] at this time be put up to sale because that, it might endanger the future manufacturing of salt at that Saline, for years to come to the great inconvenience of a large portion of the people of the State,

Therefore.

Sec[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois represented in the General Assembly, That the wells of the salt waters of the Gallatin Saline situate in the half moon heretofore occupied by Timothy Guard and Benjamin White under leases from the State, and which expires on the first day of December one thousand eight hundred and forty, be and the same are hereby leased to John Crenshaw for and during the full end and term of ten Years fully to be completed and ended, commencing on the second day of December in the Year eight hundred and forty together with all the rights and apputinances and a sufficient proportion of common apputinant to the same, as laid off in pursuance of an act of the Legislature passed January 16^th one thousand eight hundred and thirty six, together with the present pipe line leading from the well now worked to the furnance, and there is hereby also granted to the said

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Crenshaw the right of way over any lands now owned by the State, and when the same passes over the lands of others and disagreements should arise the said Crenshaw shall have the same poceedings as in cases of right of way.

Sec 2. In consideration of which grant in the foregoing section made, The said Crenshaw shall on or before the said first day of Decem[ber] eighteen hundred and forty execute a bond with sufficient security to be approved of by the Treasurer of this State in the penal sum of Ten thousand dollars, conditioned for the payment of four hundred Dollars to the Treasurer annually, The first payment to be made on the second day of December Eighteen hundred and forty one and Yearly thereafter untill the expiration of said Lease, and conditioned also that he will well and truly manufacture salt at the said Saline works, and at all times unavoidable accidents not preventing keep a sufficient quantity of salt on hand to supply all such persons of the neighbouring Country as purchases salt at said Saline for domestic consumption whenever they they shall apply at the works for the same, and conditioned also that he will at no time during this said lease charge or receive more than sixty two and a half Cents per bushel for said salt so manufactured, and conditioned also further that he shall deliver at the end of said ten Years the said wells and the line of pipes in as good condition as they now are without

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let or delay, and also with the further condition that he shall at no time during the said Lease enter into any scheme or bargain whereby the manufacture of Salt shall be suspended or a monopoly accrue, to the prejudice of any of the people of this State, which bond when so taken[,] executed[,] and approved shall be filed with the Auditor of Public accounts who shall give to said Crenshaw a certificate of such fact and affix his seal of Office which Certificate shall be evidence of the fact it contains in any Court of record in this State.