In force, Jan. [January] 15, 1836.
AN ACT to locate a State Road from Frankfort, via Vienna, to Wilcox’s Ferry, in Johnson County.
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 Ira Reynolds2 and Frederick Graves, of Johnson county, and Ragsdale Rowlen, of Franklin county, be, and they are hereby appointed commissioners, to view, locate, and mark out a
state road, from Frankfort, in Franklin county, the nearest and best practicable route, to Vienna, in Johnson county; and from Vienna, the nearest and most practicable route to Wilcox’s ferry, on the Ohio river, in said county.
When and where to meet.
Shall report.
Sec. 2. The said commissioners, or a majority of them, shall meet at Frankfort, on the first day of May, or within six months thereafter, and after being duly sworn
by some justice of the peace, faithfully to observe the provisions of this act, shall
proceed to view, and locate said road, taking into consideration the local situation
of the country, and the public convenience, and shall fix said road on the most advantageous
ground, for a permanent road. And the said commissioners shall, on or before the first Monday in December next,
make a return of their proceedings on said road, which being signed by them, or a
majority of them, a duplicate of which shall be delivered, one to the county commissioners’ court of Johnson county, and the other to the county commissioners’ court of Franklin county.
Declared a state road.
Compensation of commissioners.
Sec. 3. The said road, when laid out as aforesaid, shall be deemed and considered a state
road, and shall be opened, marked, and kept in repair, as other state roads are; and
the said commissioners, so appointed, shall receive such compensation out of the county treasuries of the respective counties
through which said road may pass, as the respective commissioners’ courts may deem just and reasonable, the county of Johnson paying the two commissioners from that county, and the county of Franklin paying the one commissioner residing in said county.
Improvement of said road.
Sec. 4. That the county commissioners’ court of Johnson county, shall, at the term of said court next succeeding the location of said road, proceed to contract for the improvement
of such parts of said road, as they may deem proper, within the county of Johnson, until they shall have expended the two hundred and twenty dollars which was appropriated
to said county of Johnson, by an act, entitled “An act making appropriations out of the state treasury,” March
first, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three.
Approved, Jan. 15, 1836.
1John Oliver introduced HB 25 in the House of Representatives on December 15, 1835. The House passed the bill unamended on December 22. On January
11, 1836, the Senate referred the bill to a select committee. On January 13, the select committee reported
back the bill without amendment, and the Senate passed the bill. On January 15, the
Council of Revision approved the bill and the act became law.
Illinois House Journal. 1835. 9th G. A., 2nd sess., 36, 65-66, 122, 311, 331, 349; Illinois Senate Journal. 1835. 9th G. A., 2nd sess., 95, 210, 232-233, 249, 269.
2This is probably Ivy Reynolds, who was appointed commissioner in a similar bill passed during the previous legislative session.
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), 187, GA Session: 9-2,