Papers Of Abraham Lincoln

In force Feb.[February] 12, 1835.

AN ACT to establish a State Road from Equality to M’Leansborough.
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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 Mastin Bond and Adonijah Grimes of Hamilton county, Jeremiah Hawes and Francis A. Richey of Gallatin county, be, and they are hereby appointed commissioners to view, lay out and mark a road from M’Leansborough in Hamilton county to Equality in Gallatin county, by the nearest and most eligible route for the same, having in view the highest and most suitable ground for the location thereof, and report the same, together with a description thereof, under their hands, to the county commissioners’ courts of the said counties of Gallatin and Hamilton, on or before the first

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term after the said view, and the number of days employed by them respectively in the said work, and the said road when so viewed, marked and reported, shall be deemed a State road and kept in repair as other State roads are.

When and where to meet.

Compensation.

Sec. 2. The said commissioners shall, on or before the first Monday of April next, or within three months thereafter2, meet at the town of M’Leansborough, and thence proceed to lay out said road as is directed in the preceding section, and the county commissioners’ courts of the counties of Hamilton and Gallatin respectively, shall allow to the commissioners a sum equal to two dollars per day for every day they shall be engaged in viewing and marking said road. The two commissioners herein appointed in Hamilton county, to be paid by the county court of Hamilton county; and the commissioners herein appointed in Gallatin, to be paid by the county court of Gallatin county.

Approved, Feb. 12, 1835.

1Levin Lane introduced SB 101 in the Senate on January 29, 1835. The Senate referred it to a select committee. The select committee reported back the bill on February 3, with an amendment, in which the Senate concurred. On February 5, the Senate amended the bill by inserting, in the second section, after the words “April next,” the words, “or within three months thereafter.” The Senate passed the bill as amended. On February 6, the House of Representatives referred the bill to a select committee. The select committee reported back the bill on February 7 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 on the same day. 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), 496, 528, 532, 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), 368, 411, 442-43, 488, 494, 503;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), 400-01.

2On February 5, 1835, the Senate amended the bill by adding the words “or within three months thereafter.” Journal of the Senate, of the Ninth General, 1835), 442.