(610 ILCS 5/22) (from Ch. 114, par. 23)
    Sec. 22. No such corporation shall consolidate its capital stock with any other railway owning a parallel or competing line. And in no case shall any consolidation take place, except upon sixty days' notice thereof given, which notice shall be given in manner and form as prescribed in the fifteenth section of this act.
(Source: Laws 1871, p. 625.)