In force Feb.[February] 13, 1835.
AN ACT to locate a State Road from Frankfort in Franklin County, by way of Vienna in Johnson County, to the Ohio River.
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 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 the nearest and most practicable route to Wilcox’s ferry on the Ohio river.
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Where and when to meet.
Sec. 2. The said commissioners, or a majority of them, shall meet at Frankfort on the first day of May next, or within three months thereafter, who, after being
duly sworn by some justice of the peace, faithfully to observe the provisions of this
act, shall proceed 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 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.
Declared a state road.
Compensation of commissioners.
Sec. 3. 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 State roads are; and the said commissioners so appointed, shall receive such compensation out of the
County Treasuries of the respective counties through which said road may pass, as
the respective commissioners’ courts may deem just and reasonable; the county of Jackson paying the two commissioners appointed from that county, and the county of Franklin paying the commissioner residing in said county.
County commissioners of Johnson county to contract for the improvement of said road.
Partial repeal.
Sec. 4. That the county commissioners of said county of Johnson shall, at the term of the court next succeeding the location of said road, proceed 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 making an appropriation out of the State Treasury, to
Johnson county,” approved, March 1st, 1833, and so much of said act as is repugnant to this act, be, and the same is hereby repealed.2
Approved, Feb. 13, 1835.
1On January 2, 1835, John Oliver in the House of Representatives introduced the petition of sundry citizens of Johnson County, requesting the establishment of a road therein named. The House referred the petition
to a select committee. In response to this petition, Oliver from the aforementioned
select committee introduced HB 92 in the House on January 8. The House passed the bill on January 13. On January
19, the Senate referred it to a select committee. On February 7, the select committee reported
back the bill with an amendment, in which the Senate concurred. The Senate passed
the bill as amended on February 9. On February 11, the House concurred with Senate
amendment. On February 13, the Council of Revision approved the bill and the act became law.
Illinois House Journal. 1835. 9th G. A., 1st sess., 198, 252, 274, 287, 514, 533, 558, 560, 566;
Illinois Senate Journal. 1835. 9th G. A., 1st sess., 253, 258, 272, 277, 457, 471, 500, 521, 522, 528.
2The original act provided the specified funds in section 1 but appropriated them in
section 3 to “the improvement of the ponds on that part of the state road leading
from Wilcox’s ferry on the Ohio river to Vienna.”
“An Act Making an Appropriation Out of the State Treasury to Johnson County,” 1 March
1833, Laws of a Private Nature (1832), 3.
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), 110-11, GA Session: 9-1