In force Feb.[February] 6, 1835.
AN ACT to locate a State Road from Shelbyville to the Great Wabash River, in Lawrence County, opposite Vincennes, in Indiana.
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 Silas P. Rhodes of Shelby county, Silas Hart of Coles county, Lewis W. Jourdan of Jasper county, and John Adams of Lawrence county, be, and they are hereby appointed commissioners to mark and locate a State road
from Shelbyville to the Great Wabash river, in Lawrence county, opposite Vincennes in Indiana.
Where and when to meet.
Sec. 2. The said commissioners, or a majority of them, shall meet in the town of Shelbyville on the first Monday of May next, or as soon thereafter as practicable, and after
being duly sworn before some justice of the peace, proceed to view, mark and locate
said road on the nearest and most eligible route, taking into view the present and
future population.
Shall make report.
To be a State road.
Compensation.
Sec. 3. The said commissioners shall, during the month of May next, or as soon thereafter
as possible, cause a true report of said road, with the number of days they were employed
in locating the same, signed by them, to be lodg-
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ed with each of the county commissioners’ courts in the counties respectively through
which it may pass; which road, when laid out as aforesaid, shall be considered a public
State road; and the county commissioners of the several counties through which said road may pass,
shall appoint supervisors, and cause the same to be opened and kept in repair as other
State roads are; and said commissioners shall receive such compensation for their services, not exceeding
one dollar and fifty cents per day, out of the respective County Treasuries in which
they reside, as may be deemed reasonable.
Approved, Feb. 6, 1835.
1Thomas B. Trower introduced HB 146 in the House of Representatives on January 22, 1835. The House referred it to a select committee. The select committee
reported back the bill on January 23 without amendment. The House passed the bill
on January 24. On January 27, the Senate referred the bill to a select committee. The select committee reported back the
bill on January 30 without amendment. The Senate passed the bill on January 31. On
February 6, 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), 284, 351, 365, 376, 465; 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), 326, 351, 374, 393, 436, 441, 454; Journal of the House of Representatives of the Ninth General Assembly of the State
of Illinois, at their Second Session, Begun and Held in Pursuance of the Proclamation
of the Governor, in the Town of Vandalia, December 7, 1835 (Vandalia, IL: J. Y. Sawyer, 1835), 381, 397, 411.
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), 118-19, GA Session: 9-1