In force Feb. [February]6, 1835.
AN ACT to change a State Road therein named.
1Commissioners appointed to relocate said road.
Sec.[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That Thomas Griffith,
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Benjamin Briggs, and Joshua Brown of the county of Tazewell, be, and they are hereby appointed commissioners to re-view and re-locate that or
any part of the State road leading from Pekin to Danville, which lies between said town and of Pekin and the town of Mackinaw.
When and where to meet.
Sec. 2. Said commissioners, or a majority of them, shall meet in the town of Pekin on or before the first day of May 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 on or before the first day of June next, shall make report
of their proceedings to the county commissioners’ court of Tazewell county, and said court shall cause said road to be opened and kept in repair as other State roads are.
Compensation.
Part of 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 said road as said commissioners shall deem it expedient to change, is hereby
vacated.
Approved, Feb. 6, 1835.
1On January 21, 1835, William Brown of the House of Representatives presented the petition of sundry citizens of Tazewell County requesting the alteration of the state road therein named. The House referred the
petition to the Committee on Petitions.John T. Stuart from the Committee on Petitions introduced HB 149 in the House on January 23. The House passed it on January 26. The Senate concurred 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), 340, 363, 377, 384, 464; 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), 332, 348, 387, 445, 448, 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), 398, 401, 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), 107-08, GA Session: 9-1,Â