Papers Of Abraham Lincoln

In force Jan.[January] 29, 1835.

AN ACT to change part of the State Road leading from Greenville to Vandalia.
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Commissioners appointed to view and re-locate said road.

When and where to meet.

Shall report to county commissioners’ court.

Sec.[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That Thomas Keyes, Wyatt Stubblefield and Peter Hubbard, be, and they are hereby appointed commissioners to view and re-locate that part of the State road leading from Greenville to Vandalia that lies between the summit of the hill east of Greenville and the present road at the east end of Howell and Hall’s grove. Said commissioners shall meet at Wyatt Stubblefield’s on the first day of April, or as soon thereafter as convenient, and after having taken an oath before some justice of the peace of Bond county, faithfully to discharge their duties according to this act, shall proceed to view and re-locate said road, commencing at the summit of the hill east of Greenville as aforesaid, on the most practicable route, to the north line of section eleven, on the Shelbyville road; from thence on said sectional line to the east end of Howell and Hall’s grove, and from thence on a striaght line, as near as practicable, to intersect the present road east of the above mentioned grove. Said commissioners, after having viewed and re-located said road, shall report the same to the county commissioners’ court of Bond county; said court shall cause the said road to be opened and kept in repair as other State roads are.

Compensation.

Sec. 2. That when the said commissioners shall report to the county commissioners’ court of Bond county that they have viewed and re-located said road according to the provisions of this act, said court shall allow them a reasonable compensation for their services.

Approved, Jan. 29, 1835.

1On January 14, 1835, William Hunter presented in the House of Representatives the petition of sundry citizens of Bond County requesting a change in part of the State Road from Greenville to Shelbyville. The House referred the petition to a select committee. Hunter from the select committee introduced HB 119 in the House on January 16. The House passed the bill on January 19. The Senate concurred on January 23. On January 29, 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, IL: J. Y. Sawyer, 1835), 281, 303, 322, 329, 371, 406, 419, 431; 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, IL: J. W. Sawyer, 1835), 282, 293-94, 318, 356, 369.