Sec[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the people of the state of Illinois represented in the General assembly: That John L Hunsaker be and he is hereby authorized to establish, and for the term of ten years maintain a ferry across the Mississippi River on the road leading from Payson in Adams county to Marion City, in the state of Missouri. The ferry landing shall be on the North East fractional quarter of section twelve, in Township three South of Range Nine West of the fourth principal Meridian. He shall at all times keep on hand a sufficient supply of Boats, and other Water Crafts, and therein afford a safe and expiditious passage ^for all passengers &^ for horses and other property usually transported across said river on ferry boats. He shall conform to, and be governed by the law of the state regulating ferries

Sec 2. The county commissioners of said county shall regulate the rates of tolls and ferriage, and furnish a list thereof to the said Hunsaker who shall at all times keep the same painted on a Board and placed up in a conspicuous place at the ferry landing. The said Hunsaker shall without delay come to be put, and thereafter to be kept in repair the road from the Base of the Mississippi Bluffs to the said Ferry

Sec 3. A failure on the part of the said Hunsaker to comply with the foregoing

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requisites shall work a complete forfeiture of all the rights by this act confered on him. The County commissioners shall not authorize the establishment of any ferry within three miles of the ferry hereby authorized, unless the said Hunsaker shall fail to keep his ferry as herein before required

Sec 4. This act shall continue in force for the ten years and no longer, but it may be altered, amended, or repealed whenever the public interest shall so require.