The Mount Carmel and Alton rail-road company.
The Rushville rail-road company.
The Winchester, Lynville, and Jacksonville rail-road company.
The Shawneetown and Alton rail-road company.
The Pekin, Bloomington, and Wabash rail-road company.
The Waverly and Grand Prairie rail-road company.
The Galena and Chicago Union rail-road company.
The Wabash and Mississippi Union rail-road company.
The Mississippi, Carrollton and Springfield rail-road company.
The National Road is in progress through this State, and considerable has been made on that portion which lies between Vandalia and the boundary of Indiana. This road enters Illinois at the north-east corner of Clark county, and passes diagonally through Coles and Effingham counties in a south-westerly course to Vandalia, a distance of 90 miles. The road is established 80 feet wide, the central part 30 feet wide, raised above standing water, and not to exceed three degrees from a level. The base of all the abutments of bridges must be equal in thickness to one third of the height of the abutment.