Sec[Section] 1st Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois represented in the General Assembly That James Bain and Ivy Reynolds of Johnson County and Cudworth Harrison of Franklin County be and they are hereby appointed commissioners to view survey and locate a state
road from frankfort in Franklin county the nearest and best practicable route to Vienna, and from Vienna, to some convenient point, on the Ohio River in said County of Johnson.
Section 2d The said commissioners or a majority of them shall meet at Frankfort on the first day day of May next or with in Three months thereafter who after being duly sworn before
some Justice of the peace faithfully to observe the provisions of this act, shall
procede to view and locate said Road taking into consideration the local situation of the
country and the public convenience and shall fix said road on the most advantageous
ground for a permanent road: and the said commissioners shall on or before the first
day of November next make or cause to be made a true survey and map of said road which being which being signed by them or a majority of them a duplicate shall be delivered one
to the County Commissioners Court of Johnson County and the other to the County Commissioners Court of Franklin County
Section 3d The said Road when laid out as aforesaid shall be deemed and considered a state road shall be opened worked and kept in repair as other
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state roads, are, and the said Commissioners so appointed shall receive such compensation
out of the County Treasuries of their respective Counties through which said Road
may pass as the respective Commissioners Court may deem just and reasonableThe County of Johnson paying the two Commissioners appointed from that County, and the County of Franklin paying the Two commissioners resideing in said countySection 4th That the County Commissioners of said County of Johnson shall at the court term of the Court next succeding the location of said road procede to contract for the improvement of such parts of said road as they may think proper
within the County of Johnson until they shall have expended the Two hundred and Twenty dollars, which was appropriated,
by the Legislature by an act entitled an act Makeing an Appropriation out of the State Treasury to Johnson County Approved March 1st 1833And so much of said act as is repugnant to this act be and the same is hereby repealed
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A Bill ^for “an act^ to locate a state road from Frankfort in Franklin County by way of Vienna in Johnson County to the Ohio River
A Bill ^for “an act^ to locate a state road from Frankfort in Franklin County by way of Vienna in Johnson County to the Ohio River
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Handwritten Document, 4 page(s), Folder 77, HB 92, GA Session: 9-1,
Illinois State Archives (Springfield, IL) ,