In force Jan.[January] 7, 1836.
AN ACT to locate a State Road from Gilead in Calhoun county, to Rushville in Schuyler county.
1Commissioners.
Sec.[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That William Mettz of Calhoun county, Nathan W. Jones of Pike county, and Cornelius Vandevanter of Schuyler county, be, and they are hereby appointed commissioners, to view, mark and lay out a state
road from Gilead in Calhoun county, thence on the nearest and best route to Pittsfield and Griggsville, in Pike county, La Grange2 in Schuyler county, thence on the nearest and best ground to Rushville in said county, doing as little injury to private property, as the public good will permit.3
When and where to meet.
Sec. 2. That said commissioners shall meet at Gilead, on the first Monday in March next, or within sixty days thereafter, and after being
duly sworn before some justice of the peace, or clerk of the circuit court, well and
truly to perform the duties required of them by this act, according to the best of
their skill and abilities; they shall proceed to the place of beginning, and view,
mark, and lay out said road, agreeable to the provisions of the first section of this
act.
To report.
Sec. 3. That so soon as said road may be located, the said commissioners shall make out a
complete report of all the principal points and notable places which the same may
pass, in each county; and it shall be the duty of said commissioners, to return to
the clerk’s office of the county commissioners’ courts, in each county, such report of that portion of said road as is situate in their
respective counties; and it shall be the duty of the said clerks respectively, to
lay said reports before the county commissioners’ court, at their next term; whose duty it shall be to cause the same to be recorded in the
records of said court, and said road to be opened and kept in good repair accordingly.
Compensation.
Sec. 4. The said commissioners shall receive such compensation for their services out of
the county treasury of their respective counties, as the county commissioners’ courts may order and allow.4
Approved, Jan. 7, 1836.
1William Ross introduced HB 8, originally titled “A Bill to Locate a State Road through Calhoun and Pike Counties, to Rushville in Schuyler County,” in the House of Representatives on December 12, 1835. The House referred the bill to a select committee, which reported
back the bill with an amendment on December 14, the House approving the amendment.
On December 15, the House voted to fill in the blank in the first section with “La Grange” and the House then passed the bill. On December 18, the Senate referred the bill to a select committee, which reported back the bill without amendment
on December 22. The Senate then passed the bill, and amended the title by striking
out “through Calhoun and Pike counties” and inserting “from Gilead in Calhoun county, to Rushville in Schuyler County.” On December 23, the House concurred
in the Senate amendment to the bill’s title. On January 7, 1836, the Council of Revision approved the bill and the act became law.
Illinois House Journal. 1835. 9th G. A., 2nd sess., 26, 39, 45, 67, 126, 139, 241, 248, 260, 469; Illinois
Senate Journal. 1835. 9th G. A., 2nd sess., 45, 47, 61, 85, 103, 179, 180, 198.
2The House filled in the blank with “La Grange” on December 15, 1835.
Illinois House Journal. 1835. 9th G. A., 2nd sess., 67.
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 Second Session (Vandalia, IL:
J. Y. Sawyer, 1836), 203, GA Session: 9-2,