In force Feb.[February] 7, 1835.
AN ACT to lay out a State Road from Greenville in Bond County to Carlinville in Macoupin County.
1Commissioners 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 William Volingtine of Bond county, andJoseph E. Evans of Montgomery county, and Levi Gimline of Macoupin county, be, and they are hereby appointed commissioners to view and lay out a road on the
nearest and most eligible route from Greenville in Bond county, to Carlinville in Macoupin county, and cause a report of their proceedings to be lodged with the clerks of the county commissioners’ courts of Bond, Macoupin and Montgomery counties, and the road when viewed and laid out as aforesaid, shall be deemed a State
road.2
Sec. 2. As soon as said road shall be laid out as aforesaid, the county commissioners’ courts of Bond, Macoupin and Montgomery counties, shall, at their next session, appoint supervisors in their respective counties,
whose duty
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it shall be to open and keep in repair such part of said road as shall pass through
their respective counties.
Compensation.
Proviso.
Further proviso.
Sec. 3. The county commissioners of Bond and Macoupin counties, shall allow to the said commissioners the sum of one dollar per day, for
every day actually employed in viewing, marking and laying out said road: Provided, That the county of Bond be required to pay two-thirds of the expenses, and the county of Macoupin the other one-third of said expense of laying out said road: And provided further, That said commissioners shall not be required to lay out said road as herein required,
unless the county commissioners of Bond and Macoupin counties shall first agree to pay them for their services.3
Approved, Feb. 7, 1835.
1On January 27, 1835, William Hunter in the House of Representatives presented the petition of various citizens of Bond County requesting a change in a certain State road. The House referred the petition to
ta select committee. In response to this petition, Hunter of the select committee
introduced HB 195 in the House on January 30. The House passed the bill on February 2. The Senate concurred on February 3. On February 7, the Council of Revision approved the bill, and the act became law.
Illinois House Journal. 1835. 9th G. A., 1st sess., 441, 470, 497, 498;
Illinois Senate Journal. 1835. 9th G. A., 1st sess., 404, 414, 453, 454, 460; Illinois House Journal. 1835. 9th G. A., 2nd sess., 386.
2State roads were those public roads established or designated by the General Assembly and usually crossed county lines. Only the General Assembly could establish, alter,
or abandon state roads, until 1840 and 1841, when the General Assembly gave counties
the authority to alter or to abandon state roads upon petition by a majority of voters
in the area of the change.
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), 123-24, GA Session: 9-1