Sec.[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That the powers conferred upon the city council of the city of Quincy, and contained in sections numbered from one to forty-one inclusive, of article five of the act entitled “An act to incorporate the city of Quincy,” approved, February third, one thousand eight hundred and forty, and such other powers in said act contained as shall be applicable to the hereinafter named city of Cairo, or shall be necessary and proper for the exercise of the powers hereby granted, be and the same are hereby conferred upon the Cairo city and canal company, incorporated in and by the act entitled “An act to incorporate the Cairo city and canal company,” approved, March fourth, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven; to be exercised by said company and those claiming under them, only in township number seventeen south, in range number one west of the third principal meridian, in Alexander county, in the State of Illinois, and within the boundaries of said city of Cairo, and only in

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so far as shall be expedient and necessary, and for the prosperity, good order, health, benefit and government of the said city of Cairo, and all persons being or residing within the limits thereof; reserving, however, to the General Assembly the power so to alter or amend from and after ten years from the passage hereof, such of the provisions of this act as the public good of said State, and the prosperity of said city of Cairo shall require.2

Sec. 2. All suits, actions and prosecutions instituted or brought under this act, shall be instituted, brought and prosecuted in the name of “The City of Cairo.”

Sec. 3. All actions, fines, penalties and forfeitures, accruing under this law, or under the resolutions and ordinances made in pursuance thereof, not inconsistent with the laws and Constitution of this State and of the United States, may be prosecuted and sued for before any justice of the peace in said county, to be used for the improvement 0f benefit of said city of Cairo, and appeals shall be allowed in all cases arising under the provisions of this act, or of any ordinance or resolution passed in pursuance thereof, to the circuit court in and for said county of Alexander, and every such appeal shall be taken and granted in the same manner and with like effect as appeals are authorized to be taken from the decisions of justices of the peace under the general laws of this State.