In force Feb.[February] 13, 1835.
AN ACT to locate a Road from Golconda in Pope County to Pinckneyville in Perry County.
1Commissioners appointed to locate said road.
Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That John Witt of the county of Pope, Cudworth Harrison and William Ryburn of the county of Franklin, and Joseph Wells of the county of Perry, be, and they are hereby appointed commissioners to view, survey and locate a road
from Golconda in Pope county, to Pinckneyville in Perry county.
When and where to meet.
Sec. 2. The said commissioners, or a majority of them, shall meet at Golconda on the second Monday in May next, or within three months thereafter, who, after being
duly sworn before some justice of the peace, faithfully to discharge the duties enjoined
on them by the provisions of this act, shall proceed to view, survey and locate said
road, taking into consideration the local situation of the country through which the
same may pass, and establish the same on the most eligible and advantageous ground,
so as to make it a permanent and good road; and the said commissioners shall, on or
before the first Monday of September, make, or cause to be made, true surveys and
maps of said road, signed by them respectively, to be lodged by them in the office
of the clerk of county commissioners’ courts of the counties through which the said
road may pass, or be located.
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Said road declared a State road.
Sec. 3. The said road, when laid out as aforesaid, shall be deemed and considered a public
State road, and the county commissioners’ courts of the counties through which said
road may pass, shall appoint supervisors over said road, and cause the same to be
opened four poles wide, and to be worked and kept in good repair.2
Certain other road declared a State road.
Sec. 4. The road leading from Pinckneyville by Lively’s ferry and Belleville to St. Louis, is hereby declared to be a State road.
Compensation of commissioners.
Sec. 5. The commissioners appointed under the provisions of this act, shall receive a just
and fair compensation for the time they are necessarily employed in the several counties
herein mentioned, each county paying for the time necessarily employed therein.3
Approved, Feb. 13, 1835.
1James A. Whiteside introduced SB 78 in the Senate on January 28, 1835. On January 31, the Senate table the bill. On February 10,
the Senate took up the bill and passed it. On February 11, the House of Representatives referred it to a select committee. On February 12, the select committee reported
back the bill with an amendment, in which the House concurred. The House passed the
bill as amended. The Senate concurred in the House amendment on the same day. On
February 13, the Council of Revision approved the bill and the act became law.
Illinois House Journal. 1835. 9th G. A., 1st sess., 527, 535, 541, 560, 562, 564, 566; Illinois Senate Journal. 1835. 9th G. A., 1st sess., 358-359, 391, 476, 506, 518, 522, 528.
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.
3On February 12, 1835, the House of Representatives amended the bill by changing language related to the source of compensation.
Illinois House Journal. 1835. 9th G. A., 1st sess., 541.
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), 120-21, GA Session: 9-1