In force Feb.[February] 10, 1835.
AN ACT appointing Commissioners to re-view so much of the State Road leading from
the county seat of Peoria county, to the State line of Indiana, as lies in the county of Tazewell, and for other purposes.
1Commissioners appointed to review said road.
When and where to meet.
Compensation.
Sec.[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That Francis Voris of Peoria, Christopher O. Neville and Simon Porter of Tazewell county, be, and the same are hereby appointed commissioners to re-view and re-locate so
much of the said road as lies between the east line of Tazewell county and the town of Peoria; and the said commissioners shall meet at the town of Mackinaw on the first day of May, or within fifteen days thereafter, and after taking the
necessary oath, shall proceed to locate, survey, and stake out said road, and shall
return an accurate map or plat of the same at the next commissioners’ court after the same has been done, and the said county commissioners’ court may allow the said commissioners a reasonable compensation for their services, and
shall cause their supervisors to open and keep in repair the said road as other roads
in their respective districts.2
Commissioners appointed to locate certain other road.
When and where to meet.
Compensation.
Sec. 2. That William Mettz of Calhoun county, Daniel Shinn of Pike county, and Erastus Stone of Schuyler county, be, and they are hereby appointed commissioners to to view and locate a State road3 from Gilead in Calhoun county via Pittsfield in Pike county, thence to Rushville in Schuyler county, under the provisions of an act to locate a State road through Calhoun and Pike counties to Rushville in Schuyler county, approved, February 27th, 1833.4 Said commissioners shall meet at Gilead on the first Monday in May next, or within one month thereafter, and proceed to locate said road as provided in said
act, and shall receive their compensation as therein provided.
Approved, Feb. 10, 1835.
1Benjamin Mitchell introduced SB 95 in the Senate on January 29, 1835. The Senate referred it to a select committee. The select committee
reported back the bill on January 31 with an amendment, in which the Senate concurred.
The Senate passed the bill as amended on February 2. On February 3, the House of Representatives referred the bill to a select committee. The select committee reported back the bill
on February 5 with an amendment, in which the House concurred. The House passed the
bill as amended on February 6. The Senate concurred in the House amendment on February
7. On February 10, the Council of Revision approved the bill and the act became law.
Illinois House Journal. 1835. 9th G. A., 1st sess., 473, 503, 512, 518, 519;
Illinois Senate Journal. 1835. 9th G. A., 1st sess., 366, 384, 400, 450, 462, 474, 483, 484; Illinois House
Journal. 1835. 9th G. A., 2nd sess., 373, 374, 402.
2In March 1837, the General Assembly passed an act authorizing the county commissioners’ court of Tazewell county to accept the report of Christopher O. Neville and Simon Porter. Both the 1837 law and the act approved in February 1835 related to an act passed
in January 1826, appointing commissioners to lay a road from Peoria to the state line between Illinois and Indiana.
“An Act Appointing Commissioners to Lay a Road from the Seat of Justice in Peoria
County to the State Line Between Illinois and Indiana,” 23 January 1826, Laws of the
State of Illinois (1826), 67-68.
3State 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, 1 page(s), Laws of the State of Illinois, Passed by the Ninth General Assembly, at their First Session (Vandalia, IL: J. Y. Sawyer, 1835), 102, GA Session: 9-1