In force Feb.[February] 12, 1835.
AN ACT to amend an act, entitled “An act to Incorporate the Rushville and Beardstown Turnpike Road Company.”
1Company may alter route of said road.
Sec.[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That the said company be authorized to construct such road or roads as are mentioned in said act, upon
the most convenient route from Rushville to the Illinois river, at or near the town called Lagrange, and for that purpose the said company are
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invested with all powers, privileges and immunities conferred by the said act, and
that the time for completing such road, be five years from the passage of this act:
Provided, however, That nothing herein contained shall deprive the said company from constructing the road contemplated by said act from Rushville to Beardstown.2Approved, Feb. 12, 1835.
1On February 7, 1835, George W. P. Maxwell in the Senate introduced the petition of sundry citizens of Schuyler County, requesting amendment of a law authorizing the construction of a railroad from Rushville to Beardstown. The Senate referred the petition to the Committee on Petitions. In response to
this petition, Thomas Mather from the Committee on Petitions introduced SB 121 in the Senate on February 9. The Senate passed it on the same day. 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. 1835. 9th G. A., 1st sess., 507, 527-28, 538, 549; Illinois Senate Journal. 1835. 9th G. A., 1st sess., 455, 465, 485, 503, 508.
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), 180-81, GA Session: 9-1