Sec.[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois represented in the General Assembly, That so much of the Act entitled “An Act to establish and maintain a general system of Internal Improvement,” approved February 27^th 1837 and all acts supplementary thereto, as authorizes as authorizes the ^further^2 prosecution of the several works therein mentioned be and the same are hereby repealed.

Sec. 2. ^nd No money shall hereafter be expended or appropriated, nor shall any further allowances or payments be made by any Officer of this State under the provisions of said acts to any person under any pretence whatever, unless in compliance with some law hereafter to be passed.

Sec. 3. This act shall not be construed so as to authorize any Company heretofore incorporated, or any person or persons whatever to claim or exercise any authority or control over any part of any of the works therein mentioned—or over so much of the land of individuals or companies, as may have been condemned and paid for, per the right of way, under the provisions of said Acts.

Sec. 4. The Treasurer of this State is hereby authorized to sell so much of the timber, and other articles purchased for the use of the State under said laws, as is liable to go to waste, by giving at least four weeks public notice thereof in the Paper of the Public Printer, and in some other newspaper printed nearest to the place where the said articles are to be sold.

Sec. 5. The Fund Commissioner is hereby authorized to sell the rail-road iron purchased for the use of the State if he can sell the same so as to prevent the State from losing more than thirty per cent on the cost of said iron.

Sec. 6. The Act entitled “An Act to amend an act concerning the right of way”—approved 12^th Feb’y 1839—and so much of any other act of this State as authorizes any person to obtain an assessment for the right of way, on any of said works, are ^is^ hereby repealed.3