In force Jan. [January]24, 1835.
AN ACT to locate and establish a State Road therein named.
1Commissioners 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 Anthony W. Calad and Joseph Penn, sen., of the county of St. Clair, Joseph Duncan of the county of Madison, and Benjamin Johnson of the county of Bond, be, and they are hereby appointed commissioners to view, mark and locate a road
from the town of Lebanon in St. Clair county, to the house of Benjamin Johnson on the Edwardsville and Vandalia road in Bond county.2
When to meet.
Sec. 2. The said commissioners, or any two of them, shall meet at the town of Lebanon on the first day of May next, or within thirty days thereafter, and before entering
on the duties assigned them by this act, to take an oath before some justice of the
peace of the county in which they may meet, and then proceed to view, mark and locate
said road on the nearest and most eligible ground.
Their duty.
Compensation.
Sec. 3. The said commissioners shall cause a true report of said road, signed by them, to
be lodged with each of the county commissioners’ courts in the counties through which
it may pass, which road, when laid out as aforesaid, shall be deemed and considered
a public State road, and the county commissioners’ courts of the counties through
which said road may pass, shall appoint supervisors and cause said road to be opened,
worked, and kept in repair as other public roads are; and the said county commissioners’ courts may allow said commissioners a reasonable
compensation for their services, to be paid out of the County Treasuries in the county
which they may reside.
Same act declared to be in force.
Proviso.
Sec. 4. That the act, approved February 22d, 1833, appointing commissioners to view, mark
and locate a State
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road from Lebanon in St. Clair county, to Lower Alton on the Mississippi river, be, and the same is hereby declared to be in full force and effect: Provided, That the said commissioners shall locate and establish said road on or before the
first Monday in June next.3Approved, Jan. 24, 1835.
1John D. Hughes introduced HB 76 in the House of Representatives on January 5, 1835. On January 6, the House referred it to a select committee.
The select committee reported back the bill without amendment on January 7, and the
House passed it on January 8. On January 12, the Senate amended the bill by inserting “Joseph Penn, sen.” after “Anthony W. Calad.” The Senate passed the bill as amended on January 15. On January 16, the House
concurred with the Senate amendment. On January 24, the Council of Revision approved the bill and the act became law. Journal of the House of Representatives of the Ninth General Assembly of the State
of Illinois, at their First Session, Begun and Held in the Town of Vandalia, December
1, 1834 (Vandalia, Ill.: J. Y. Sawyer, 1835), 220, 236, 248, 253, 301-02, 307, 360, 374,
375, 400; Journal of the Senate, of the Ninth General Assembly of the State of Illinois, at
their First Session, Begun and Held in the Town of Vandalia, December 1, 1834 (Vandalia, Ill.: J. W. Sawyer, 1835), 206, 213, 220, 260, 265, 322.
2On January 12, 1835, the Senate amended the bill by inserting “Joseph Penn, sen.” after “Anthony W. Calad.” Journal of the Senate, of the Ninth General Assembly of the State of Illinois, at
their First Session, Begun and Held in the Town of Vandalia, December 1, 1834 (Vandalia, Ill.: J. W. Sawyer, 1835), 220.
Printed Document, 2 page(s), Laws of the State of Illinois, Passed by the Ninth General Assembly, at their First Session (Vandalia, IL:
J. Y. Sawyer, 1835), 115-16, GA Session: 9-1