In force Jan.[January] 16, 1836.
AN ACT to improve a certain road in Edgar county.
1Sec.[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That the county commissioners’ court of Edgar county shall, and it is hereby made their duty, to expend so much of the donation growing
out of an act of 1829, entitled “an act providing for the sale of the Vermilion Saline Reserve,” and appropriating so much of the avails thereof, as will bridge or causeway the
sloughs on the Springfield road in Edgar county, between Paris in said county, and Nathaniel Wayne’s, so as to make said road convenient and safe for the accommodation of travellers.2
Approved, Jan. 16, 1836.
1Nelson W. Nunnally introduced HB 61 in the House of Representatives on December 23, 1835. The House passed the bill without amendment on December 31.
On January 14, 1836, the Senate passed the bill without amendment. On January 16, the Council of Revision approved the bill and the act became law.
Illinois House Journal. 1835. 9th G. A., 2nd sess.,135, 182, 192, 334, 359; Illinois Senate Journal. 1835. 9th G. A., 2nd sess., 141-42, 245, 268, 280.
2In 1829, the General Assembly passed an act authorizing the sale of the Saline Reserve Lands in Vermilion County. Out of the proceeds of that sale, they appropriated $800 to the Edgar County Commissioners’ Court for a bridge over Bruett’s Creek and Sugar Creek, with the remainder to be applied
on other roads the court should determine.
“An Act Providing for the Sale of the Vermilion Saline Reserve, and Appropriating
the Avails Thereof,” 19 January 1829, Revised Code of Laws, of Illinois (1829), 143-49.
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), 221, GA Session: 9-2,