In force March 1, 1837
AN ACT for a State road from Marshall to Charleston.
1Commissioners appointed to locate road.
Sec.[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois represented in the General Assembly, That Stephen D. Handay of Clark county, and Joel Conolly, and Andrew Clark of Coles county, are hereby appointed commissioners to locate a state road2 from Marshall in Clark county, via New Richmond in the rich-woods, to Charleston in Coles county, via Southerland’s ford.
When and where to meet.
Duties.
Shall report.
Sec. 2. Said commissioners or a majority of them shall meet at Marshall so soon as convenient, in the month of February or March next, and after having been duly sworn before some justice of the peace faithfully and
impartially to perform the duties required of them by this act, shall proceed to view,
survey, mark, and locate said road, placing the same on the most suitable ground,
and as direct as practicable for a useful, direct, and permanent road, and having
so located the same, they shall report the same, giving a plat with the courses and distances, to the
commissioners court of each county named, which shall be recorded at length.
Road to be four poles wide, and how opened, & kept in repair.
Duty of several commissioners courts.
Duty of several commissioners courts.
Sec. 3. Said road shall be four poles wide, and shall be opened, worked, and kept in repair
as other state roads are, and it is hereby made the duty of the commissioners court of each county, to cause the same to be worked and improved, to make the same passable,
and convenient for travel.
Compensation to road commissioners
Sec. 4. The county commissioners of Clark and Coles counties, shall pay said reviewers the sum of one dollar and fifty cents per day,
each county paying its just proportion of the same, for every day necessarily engaged
in said service.
Approved March 1, 1837.
1On December 30, 1836, Usher F. Linder in the House of Representatives presented the petition of various citizens of Coles and Clark counties, requesting the construction of a state road from Charleston to Marshall. The House referred the petition to a select committee. In response to this petition,
Linder of the select committee introduced HB 83 in the House on January 6, 1837. On January 26, the House referred the bill to a
select committee. The select committee reported back the bill on January 30 with
amendments, in which the House concurred. which reported back with amendments on
January 30. On February 8, the House passed the bill as amended. On February 10,
the Senate referred the bill to a select committee. The select committee reported back the
bill on February 11, in which the Senate concurred. The Senate then passed the bill
as amended. On February 25, the House concurred in the Senate amendment. On March
1, the Council of Revision approved the bill, and the act became law.
Illinois House Journal. 1836. 10th G. A., 1st sess., 140, 184-85, 401, 425, 519, 555, 719, 760, 794; Illinois
Senate Journal. 1836. 10th G. A., 1st sess., 376, 390, 394-95, 536, 555.
2State 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 Tenth General Assembly (Vandalia, IL: William Walters, 1837), 258, GA Session: 10-1