Sec.[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That the first election for trustees whose election is provided for in the act to which this is an amendment, shall be held on the first Monday of May next.2

Sec. 2. That in addition to the persons authorized to be taxed by the trustees in the act to which this is an amendment, they are hereby authorized to levy and collect a tax from all pedlars, selling or vending goods, wares or merchandize within the limits of said incorporation of not less than five dollars nor more than twenty dollars; and upon the payment of such assessment, the person paying the same shall be entitled to, and receive from the treasurer of said incorporation, a license, authorizing him to peddle within the limits of said town, for the period of three months thereafter. All persons shall be deemed pedlars who offer to sell the above enumerated articles, and who are not permanently settled within the incorporation limits. Persons living within the State, and offering to sell, or barter their own productions or manufactures, shall not be deemed to be within the provisions of this section.3

Sec. 3. The act, entitled "An act to incorporate the Carmi Bridge Company,'' approved, February six, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-five, is further amended, so that if any person or persons shall wilfully or negligently travel a horse or horses, work oxen, cattle, mules, ass, or any beast of burthen, on or across the bridge therein authorized to be constructed, faster than a common walk, such person or persons shall be liable to pay any sum not less than three, nor more than twenty dollars for every such offence, to be recovered by action of debt or trespass, by any person who may sue therefor, or in the name of the county of White, before any justice of the peace in said county of White.4

Approved, February 8, 1841.