Sec[Section] 1 Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois represented in the General Assembly, That Samuel Prevon ^Junr^[,] James Smick, and Robert Ferguson of Clark County ^
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from Vincennes to Chicago as lies North of Darwin in Said County of Clark to the North line of said County, where said State Road crosses said County line, Commencing at Darwin; from thence to Hogues Mill on big Creek; thence to the Town of Livingston; thence to where said State Road crosses the North line of said County, doing as little injury to property as may be consistant with the public good.
Sec 2 The said Commissioners or any two of them shall meet at Darwin on the first monday in March next, or within thirty days thereafter; and after taking
and subscribing an oath before some Justice of the peace to fully, and impartially
discharge the duties enjoined on them by the provisions of this act, shall proceed
to survey, mark, and relocate said Road, on the best ground, and nearest way that
can be had for a good road between the points above mentioned. Which road shall be
four poles wide The said Commissioners shall cause a plat of the courses and distances of said road
to be filed in the Clerks office of the County Commissioners Court of said County within ten days after the completing said review.
Sec 3 And said Commissioners, Surveyor, and the necessary help that may be by them required
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completely carry this act into effect; shall be allowed such compensation as the
Commissioners Court of Clark County may deem just and right.
Sec 4 And be it further enacted, that the first section of an act entitled “an act to
re-locate so much of the Vincennes and Chicago Road” as lies North of the South line
of said County to Darwin in said County of Clark, passed the fourteenth day of January 1836, be, and the same is hereby repealed;
And said road shall be and remain as laid out, by Stephen D Handy, and James Clyman from the South line of said County of Clark to Darwin in said County agreeably to the provisions of an act authorising the location of a State road from Vincennes to Chicago, passed on the 15th day of January AD. 1831. Said road when so relocated under the provisions of this
act shall be opened and kept in repair as other State roads are. This act to take
effect from and after its passage.
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1These legislators formed a select committee in the Senate that considered the bill.
Illinois Senate Journal. 1836. 10th G. A., 1st sess., 569.
Handwritten Document, 4 page(s), Folder 103, HB 110, GA Session 10-1, Illinois State Archives (Springfield, IL) ,