Sec[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois represented in the General assembly, That Daniel Roberts, John O Briant and Nathan Dillon be and are hereby appointed commissioners to review and relocate that that or any part of the State road leading from Springfield to peoria which lies between the North end of John T. Scotts lane on Section No. 35 in Township No. 25 North Range No. 4. West and the North line of said Township 25.
Sec. 2. Said commissioners or a majority of them shall meet on or before the first day
of may next, and after being duly sworn by some Justice of the peace faithfully to
discharge the duties herein required of them, shall procede to execute the same, and on or before the 1st day of June next shall make a report of their procedings to the county-commissioners court of Tazwell county and said court shall cause said road to be opened and kept in repair as other state roads are.
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 commissioners shall deem it expediant to change is hereby located.
Sec. 4. Be it further enacted that George H Hanna, Isom Clay Jr. and Solomon Litten be and are hereby appointed commissioners, to change the location of the state road from belgrade in Pope county by Green’s mill intersect the State road leading from Golconda to Vandalia
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so as to diverge from the present location, at a point three quarters of a mile from
the Ohio river, running through fractional Section No. 8. in Township 16 South of Range 5 east of
the third principal meredian, in the district of lands, offered for sale at Shawneetown, and to terminate on the Ohio River, seventeen poles above the termination of the present location, provided the said
change can be made upon as good ground for a road, as is upon the road at present
located.
Sec. 5. Said commissioners or a majority of them shall meet on or before the first day
of Aprill next, and after being duly sworn before some Justice of the peace as prescribed in
the 2d section of this bill, shall proced to perform the duties required of them by this act, and on or before the first day
of June thereafter, make a report of their proceedings to the county-commissioners court of pope county, and thereafter said court, shall cause said road as changed, to be opened and kept in repair as other state roads.
Sec 6.th Said commissioners shall receive for their services a reasonable compensation not
to excede one dollar per day, to be paid out of the county treasury of said county of PopeSo much of the old road as may be changed by said commissioners is hereby vacated,
and the new location established in lieu thereof.
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A Bill for “an act to change part of the State Road from Springfield to Peoria. ^certain state roads.”^
A Bill for “an act to change part of the State Road from Springfield to Peoria. ^certain state roads.”^
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Handwritten Document, 4 page(s), Folder 57, HB 71, GA Session: 9-1,
Illinois State Archives (Springfield, IL) ,