In force Feb.[February] 12, 1835.
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 Fields Jarvis of Warren county, William Edmondson of M’Donough county, and Alfred Spencer of Schuyler county, be, and they are hereby appointed commissioners to view, mark and locate a State
road, to commence at Rushville in Schuyler county, thence to M’Comb in M’Donough county, thence to Monmouth in Warren county.2
When and where to meet.
Shall make report to county commissioners’ court.
Sec. 2. That said commissioners, or a majority of them, shall meet at Rushville on the first day of June next, or within three months thereafter; and after being
sworn by some justice of the peace faithfully to discharge the duties required of
them by this act, shall proceed to view, mark and locate said road from point to point,
as directed in the first section of this act, upon the nearest and best route, avoiding,
as much as practicable, any injury to farms, improvements and private property on
said route, and make out and return to the county commissioners’ court of the several counties through which it passes, a certified report
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of said road, describing as nearly as practicable, the route and distance of said
road, which shall be filed with the several clerks of the county commissioners’ courts through which said road passes, within one month after said road is located; and
said road, when so located, shall be deemed a public State road and kept in repair
as other State roads are.
Compensation.
Sec. 3. The county commissioners’ courts of the several counties through which said road passes, shall allow to said commissioners,
appointed under this act, a sum not exceeding one dollar and fifty cents per day for
their services for the time necessarily employed by them in the discharge of the duties
assigned them by this act, to be paid out of the County Treasuries of the counties
in which said road may be located, in proportion to the extent of said road in each.
County commissioners may order said road to be surveyed.
Expense of thereof how paid.
Sec. 4. That if the county commissioners’ court of any two of the counties through which said road passes, shall think proper, they
may authorize said road commissioners to cause said road to be surveyed, and plats
thereof filed in the offices of the clerks of the county commissioners’ courts of the several counties through which said road passes, in the same manner as other
State roads are surveyed. The expense of surveying to be paid out of the County Treasuries of the several counties
in which said road may be located, in proportion to the extent of said road in each.
Approved, Feb. 12, 1835.
1George W. P. Maxwell introduced SB 77 in the Senate on January 28, 1835. The Senate passed the bill on January 31. On February 5, the
House of Representatives referred the bill to a select committee. The select committee reported back the
bill on February 10 with an amendment, in which the House concurred. The House passed
the bill as amended on February 11. The Senate concurred in the House amendment in
February 11. On February 12, 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, Ill.: J. Y. Sawyer, 1835),465, 517, 529, 531, 538, 549 ; 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, Ill.: J. W. Sawyer, 1835), 358, 391, 485, 492, 503, 508;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, Ill.: J. Y. Sawyer, 1835), 385.
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), 97-98, GA Session: 9-1