In force Feb.[February] 12, 1835.
AN ACT to lay out a Road from Blair’s Ferry to Frankfort, and for other purposes.
1Commissioners 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 John Baldwin, Thomas Consert and Daniel Watkins, be, and they are hereby appointed commissioners to view, lay out and mark a road
from Blair’s ferry on the Ohio river in Pope county, to intersect M’Farland’s road2 at or near Bradford’s, and from thence to Vandalia.3 The road as it now runs, by Blackman’s in Gallatin county, thence by M’Rery’s old place, thence by Estes’s, thence by Mount Vernon, and thence to Vandalia, be, and the same is hereby declared a State road, together with such part of said
road as may be
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laid out by said commissioners; all of which shall be opened and kept in repair as
other State roads are by law required to be.
When to perform their duties.
Sec. 2. That said commissioners shall view, mark and locate said road, on or before the first
day of August, 1835, and shall be allowed, out of the County Treasury of Pope county, one dollar per day while employed as such commissioners.
Approved, Feb. 12, 1835.
1James A. Whiteside introduced SB 97 in the Senate on January 29, 1835. The Senate referred it to a select committee. The select committee
reported back the bill on February 7 without amendment. The Senate passed the bill
on February 9. The House of Representatives concurred on February 11. On February 12, the Council of Revision approved the bill and the act became law. Illinois House Journal. 9th G. A., 1st sess., 514, 533, 548, 555; Illinois Senate Journal. 9th G. A., 1st sess., 367, 457, 470, 500, 509, 515.
2James McFarland, an early settler in southern Illinois, established a road in 1814
from his ferry on the Ohio River to the United States Saline Salt Works in Shawneetown.
This may have been a reference to that old road.
History of Gallatin, Saline, Hamilton, Franklin and Williamson Counties (Chicago: The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1887), 58-59.
3There was a James Bradford that owned property in Gallatin County south of Shawneetown in the 1830s, and this may have been the land referenced here.
History of Gallatin, Saline, Hamilton, Franklin and Williamson Counties, 62-63.
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), 101-02, GA Session: 9-1