In force Jan.[January] 29, 1825.
AN ACT to change a part of the State Road from Vincennes to Chicago, as lies in Crawford County.
1Commissioners appointed to re-locate said road.
Sec.[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That Asahel Heath, Nathan Mars and Asa Norton, be, and they are hereby appointed commissioners to re-view and re-locate that or
any part of the State road2 leading from Vincennes to Chicago, which lies between Palestine and Hutsonville in Crawford county.
When and where to meet.
Shall make report to county commissioners’ court.
Sec. 2. Said commissioners, or a majority of them, shall meet on or before the first day
of March next, and after being duly sworn by some justice of the peace, faithfully
to discharge the duties herein required of them, shall proceed to execute the same,
and they are hereby required to make a report of their proceedings to the county commissioners’ court next ensuing in the said county of Crawford, after such duties shall have been performed, and said court shall cause said road to be opened and kept in repair as other State roads are.
Compensation.
Part of said road vacated.
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 the road as said commissioners shall deem it expedient to change, is hereby
vacated.
This act to take effect from and after its passage.
3Approved, Feb. 29, 1835.
1On January 3, 1835, James D. McGahey in the House of Representatives presented the petition of sundry citizens of Crawford County, requesting the review of part of the state road between Vincennes and Chicago. The House referred the petition to a select committee. In response to this petition,
McGahey from the select committee introduced HB 83 in the House on January 7. On January 13, the House passed the bill, amending the
title by adding “as Lies in Crawford County.” The Senate concurred on January 20. On January 31, the Council of Revision approved the bill and the act became law.
Illinois House Journal. 1835. 9th G. A., 1st sess., 203, 242, 274, 287-88, 341, 406, 419, 460; Illinois
Senate Journal. 1835. 9th G. A., 1st sess., 253, 258, 272, 287, 356, 390.
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.
3On January 13, 1835, the House of Representatives amended the bill title by adding “as lies in Crawford County.”
Illinois House Journal. 1835. 9th G. A., 1st sess., 287.
Printed Document, 1 page(s), Laws of the State of Illinois, Passed by the Ninth General Assembly, at their First Session (Vandalia, IL:
J. Y. Sawyer, 1835), 127, GA Session: 9-1