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In force Feb.[February] 6, 1835.

AN ACT to change a part of the State Road leading from Bloomington to Danville.
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Commissioners appointed to locate said road.

Sec.[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That William Orendorf, Cheney Thomas and Samuel Durley, be, and they are hereby appointed commissioners to re-view and re-locate that, or any part of the State road2 leading from Bloomington to Danville which lies between the house of John Himler and a point on said road, five miles south east of said town of Bloomington.

When to meet.

Sec. 2. Said commissioners, or a majority of them, shall meet on or before the first day of April next, and after being first duly sworn by some justice of the peace, faithfully to dicharge their duties herein required of them, shall proceed to execute the same, and on or before the first day of June next, shall make a report of their proceedings to the county commissioners’ court of M’Lean county, and said court shall cause said road to be opened and kept in repair as other State roads are.

Compensation.

Sec. 3. Said commissioners shall receive for their services, a reasonable compensation, to be paid out of the County Treasury, by order of the county commissioners’ court. So much of said road as said county commissioners shall deem it expedient to change, is hereby vacated.

[ certification ]
02/06/1835
Field, Alexander P.

Certificate.

This bill having remained with the Council of Revision ten days, Sundays excepted, and the General Assembly being in session, it has become a law this 6th day of February, 1835.
A. P. FIELD, Secretary of State.

1On December 30, 1834, William Brown in the House of Representatives presented the petition of sundry citizens of McLean County, requesting a change in a state road. The House referred the petition to the Committee on Petitions. In response to this petition, John T. Stuart from the Committee on Petitions introduced HB 70 in the House on January 3, 1835. The House passed it on January 6. The Senate concurred on January 12. The Council of Revision not acting within ten days of the bill’s submission, the act became law on February 6.
Illinois House Journal. 1835. 9th G. A., 1st sess., 181, 205, 219, 236, 281, 324, 333; Illinois Senate Journal. 1835. 9th G. A., 1st sess., 194, 198, 206, 219, 279, 281, 293.

2State roads were those public roads established or designated by the General Assembly and usually crossed county lines. Only the General Assembly could establish, alter, or abandon state roads, until 1840 and 1841, when the General Assembly gave counties the authority to alter or to abandon state roads upon petition by a majority of voters in the area of the change.
An Act concerning Public Roads, sec. 9; An Act Authorizing Commissioners’ Courts to Alter, Change, and Relocate State Roads; An Act concerning Public Roads.