Sec.[Section] 1 Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois Represented in the General Assembly, That James Harker sen. of Peoria County[,] Joel Wright & Robert Hughs of Fulton County[,] John Baker of Schuyler County & Henry P Childers of Adams County be and are hereby appointed commissioners to view, mark[,] and locate a road from Peoria in Peoria County by Canton in Fulton County, Ralls Mill in Schuyler County thence to Quincy the seat of Justice of Adams County haveing in view its permancy and a due regard to the public convenience
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The said Commissioners or a Majority of them shall meet on the third Monday in May next or as soon thereafter as practicable at Peoria in Peoria County: and after being duly sworn before some Justice of the peace faithfully to discharge the duties required of them by this Act shall proceed to view[,] mark[,] and locate said road: and as soon as practicable thereafter cause to be made out a report, of the location of said road, designating the most noted points thereon and return a copy of the same to the Clerk of the county commissioners court of each county through which it may pass which shall be by him filed in his office, and said road thus laid out shall be and is hereby declared a public state road four poles wide and shall be opened and kept in repair as other State roads are
The said Commissioners or a Majority of them shall meet on the third Monday in May next or as soon thereafter as practicable at Peoria in Peoria County: and after being duly sworn before some Justice of the peace faithfully to discharge the duties required of them by this Act shall proceed to view[,] mark[,] and locate said road: and as soon as practicable thereafter cause to be made out a report, of the location of said road, designating the most noted points thereon and return a copy of the same to the Clerk of the county commissioners court of each county through which it may pass which shall be by him filed in his office, and said road thus laid out shall be and is hereby declared a public state road four poles wide and shall be opened and kept in repair as other State roads are
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The said commissioners or a majority of them shall be authorised to proceed and lay out said road as required by this act and call to their assistance such help as may be necessary to assist in setting good substantial stakes in the prairie and blazing the trees in the timber and the county commissioners of said counties shall courts of said counties through which said road may pass shall allow said com commissioners and such other hands as they may
The said commissioners or a majority of them shall be authorised to proceed and lay out said road as required by this act and call to their assistance such help as may be necessary to assist in setting good substantial stakes in the prairie and blazing the trees in the timber and the county commissioners of said counties shall courts of said counties through which said road may pass shall allow said com commissioners and such other hands as they may
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necessarily employ to assist them a sum not exceeding Two Dollars for each for every
Day necessarily employed in locating said road to be paid equally out of the County
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necessarily employ to assist them, a sum not exceeding two dollars for each day necessarily
employed in locating said Road to be paid equally out of the County treasuries of
each county throug which the same may pass.
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1These legislators formed a select committee in the House of Representatives that considered the bill.
Illinois House Journal. 1836. 10th G. A., 1st sess., 164.
Handwritten Document, 4 page(s), Folder 37, HB 37, GA Session 10-1, Illinois State Archives (Springfield, IL) ,