In force, Feb. [February] 17, 1841.
An ACT to authorize the Madison County Ferry Company to construct a road or causeway.
1Madison co’y ferry co’y to build road or causeway.
Width of road or causeway.
Sec. [Section]1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That the Madison County Ferry company is hereby permitted and authorized to construct a road or causeway, from the ferry
landing, in Madison county, on the Mississippi river, opposite North St. Louis, across the sand bar in front of said ferry landing; such road or causeway not to exceed forty feet in width, and four feet in heighth, above the highest part of said sand bar.
Approved, February 17, 1841.
1On January 13, 1841, George W. Harrison introduced SB 109 in theIllinois Senate. On January 19, the Senate passed the bill. On February 11, the Illinois House of Representatives passed the bill. On February 17, the Illinois Council of Revision approved the bill and the act became law.
Illinois House Journal. 1840. 12th G. A., 248, 252, 372.; Illinois Senate Journal. 1840. 12th G. A., 161, 168, 179, 297, 323-24, 336.
Printed Document, 1 page(s), Laws of the State of Illinois, Passed by the Twelfth General Assembly (Springfield, IL: William Walters, 1841), 224, GA Session 12-2,