In force Feb.[February] 6, 1835.
Commissioners appointed to lay out said road.
Sec.[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That Lewis Bigelow of Peoria county, William Hawes of Putnam county, and George E. Walker of La Salle county, be, and they are hereby appointed commissioners to view and lay out a State
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road from Peoria in Peoria county, to Ottawa in La Salle county.
When and where to meet.
Sec. 2. The said commissioners, or a majority of them, shall meet at Ottawa on or before the first Monday in June next, and proceed to locate said road, as is
provided for in the act to which this is an amendment:2 Provided, nothing in this act shall be so construed as to require said commissioners to locate
said road between Ottawa and Chicago, or the county of Cook to pay any part of the expense of locating said road.
Parts of act repealed.
Sec. 3. The first section of the act to which this is an amendment, and such other parts of
said act as are repugnant to the provisions of this act, are hereby repealed.
3Approved, Feb. 6, 1835.
1John Hamlin introduced HB 150 in the House of Representatives on January 23, 1835. The House passed the bill 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), 366, 377-78, 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, 347, 387, 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, 398, 411.
2On January 12, 1833, the General Assembly passed a law authorizing commissioners from Peoria, Putnam, LaSalle, and Cook counties to lay out a road from Peoria to the Fox River to Chicago. HB 150 and its companion act removed reference to Cook County and specifically restricted
the commissioners to locate the route between Peoria and Ottawa.
“An Act For locating and establishing a road from Peoria to Chicago," 12 January 1833,
Laws, of a Private Nature, Passed at the Eighth Session of the General Assembly of
the State of Illinois (Kaskaskia, IL: R. K. Fleming, 1833), 179-80.
3The road went from Peoria by way of Metamora, Magnolia, and Union Grove to Ottawa, and thence to Chicago.
David McCulloch, “Early Days of Peoria and Chicago; An Address Read Before the Chicago
History Society at a Quarterly Meeting Held January 19, 1904” Chicago Historical Society Proceedings, 1903-1905 (2): 114
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), 94-95, GA Session: 9-1