In force, Jan.[January] 13, 1836.
AN ACT to locate a State Road therein named.
1Appointment of commissioners.
Sec.[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That James Ballard, John F. Youngkin,2 and William Eldridge, be, and they are hereby appointed commissioners to view, locate, and lay out a state
road from the Bonpas bridge in section twenty-two, township one north, range fourteen west, in Edwards county to Bedell’s mills, on the great Wabash river, in Wabash county.3
Where and when to meet.
To be sworn.
Sec. 2. The said commissioners shall meet at the house of Samuel Mundy, in Wabash county, on the first Monday in February next, or within twenty days thereafter, and having taken an oath or affirmation faithfully, impartially, and diligently to
perform the duties imposed upon them by this act, shall proceed to view, locate, and
lay out a road between the points named in the first section of this act, on
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the most eligible route, having due regard to the convenience of the citizens, and
doing as little injury to private property as practicable; and shall mark out the
road, when so located by them, by distinct marks in the timber land, and by substantial
and durable posts set up in the prairies at suitable intervals on the route thereof.
Shall report to county commissioners of Wabash county.
Sec. 3. The said commissioners shall make out and return to the clerk of the county commissioners’ court of Wabash county a full report of their proceedings had in pursuance of this act, designating the
route of the said road; which report shall be filed and recorded by the said clerk,
and the said road, when so laid out, located, and marked, shall be considered a state
road, and the same shall be opened, worked, and kept in repair in the same manner
as other state roads are opened, worked, and kept in repair.
Compensation
Sec. 4. The said commissioners’ shall be entitled to receive the sum of two dollars per day
for each day’s services while employed in laying out said road, which, with the other
expences attending the same, shall be paid by the county commissioners’ court of Wabash county.4
Approved, Jan. 13, 1836.
1Henry J. Mills introduced SB 74 in the Senate on January 2, 1836. The Senate passed the bill on January 4. On January 9, the
House of Representatives amended the bill by changing John Youngkin’s middle initial from a “G” to an “F.” The House passed the bill as amended on January
11. On January 13, the Council of Revision approved the bill and the act became law.
Illinois House Journal. 1835. 9th G. A., 2nd sess., 232, 269-70, 276, 309, 320; Illinois Senate Journal. 1835. 9th G. A., 2nd sess., 152, 165, 213, 230, 236.
2On January 9, 1836, the House of Representatives amended the bill by changing John Youngkin’s middle initial from a “G” to an “F.”
Illinois House Journal. 1835. 9th G. A., 2nd sess., 270.
3The bridge over Bonpas Creek was located near the south end of Edwards County’s eastern border. Moses Bedell’s mill was located on the Wabash River toward the northern end of Wabash County’s eastern border.
Combined History of Edwards, Lawrence and Wabash Counties, Illinois (Philadelphia: J. L. McDonough & Co., 1883), 294.
Printed Document, 2 page(s), Laws of the State of Illinois, Passed by the Ninth General Assembly, at their Second Session (Vandalia, IL:
J. Y. Sawyer, 1836), 223-24, GA Session: 9-2,