Papers Of Abraham Lincoln

In force Feb.[February] 6, 1835.

AN ACT to lay out a Road from Moses Thomas’s in Champaign County, to Bloomington in M’Lean County.
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Commissioners 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 George Akers and Moses Thomas of Champaign county, and James M. Kellep of M’Lean county, be, and they are hereby appointed commissioners to view, mark and locate a road from Moses

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Thomas’s in Champaign county, by way of Urbana in said county, to Bloomington in M’Lean county.

When and where to meet.

Sec. 2. Said commissioners, or a majority of them, shall meet at the house of Moses Thomas on the first day of April next, or as soon thereafter as they conveniently can, and after being first duly sworn before some justice of the peace faithfully to discharge the duties required of them by this act, shall forthwith proceed to view, mark and locate said road on the nearest and best ground for a permanent road, doing as little injury to private property as the public good will permit.

Shall make map of said road.

Sec. 3. Said commissioners, or a majority of them, shall, on or before the first Monday in June next, make a map or plat of that part of said road, which lies in the respective counties, and transmit the same to each of the clerks of the county commissioners’ courts respectively, to be by him filed in his office, and shall also make a full map or plat of said road, and transmit the same to the office of the Secretary of State of this State, there to be filed and preserved.

Declared a public highway.

Sec. 4. When said road shall be located and established, it shall be deemed a public highway, shall be opened sixty feet wide, and shall be kept in repair as other public highways.

Compensation.

Sec. 5. The county commissioners’ courts of the respective counties, shall cause to be paid to the said road commissioners, and such hands as the said commissioners may find it necessary to employ in viewing, marking and locating said road, such compensation out of the County Treasury as they may deem reasonable.

Approved, Feb. 6, 1835.

1On January 3, 1835, John W. Vance of the Senate introduced the petition of sundry citizens of Champaign and McLean counties requesting the re-location of a certain state road. The Senate referred the petition to a select committee. Vance from the aforementioned select committee introduced SB 62 in the Senate on January 21. The Senate passed it on January 27. The House of Representatives concurred on January 29. 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), 412, 415, 436; 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), 172, 291-292, 324, 353-354, 378, 437, 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.