Sec. []1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That John Atchison, Henry J. Morrison, R. J. Taylor, R. W. Brush and T. B. Farnsworth, be, and they are hereby appointed commissioners for superintending subscriptions to the capital stock of said company, and the said commissioners shall open one or more subscription books for said stock at such time and place in the town of Galena as they shall direct, within twelve months from and after the passage of this act.

Sec. 2. That notice shall be given in one of the papers published in the town of Galena, setting forth the time and place, and at least thirty days previous to the opening of the said books of subscription.

Sec. 3. The election of directors of said company shall be conducted as heretofore provided, and shall hold their offices until the first Monday in June, one thousand eight hundred and forty-two, and until others are elected in their stead, and the directors for every subsequent year shall be elected on the first Monday in June.

Sec. 4. The charter of the said company hereby amended, shall be void and of no effect unless the stock shall be subscribed and the company commence operations within two years from and after the passage of this act; and the twenty-second section of the act to which this is amendatory, as well as every other part of said act conflicting herewith, and the amendatory act passed February nineteenth, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine, is hereby repealed. The corporate powers and existence of said company shall expire at the termination of twenty years from the passage of this act.2Approved, February 17, 1841.