Sec[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the people of the state of Illinois Represented in the General Assembly That so much of the state Road as lies between John Howards in the County of Crawford and the wabash River as viewed and located under an act approved January the Sixteenth one thousand Eight and thirty six Entitled an act to locate a state Road from the wabash in Crawford County to Shelbyville in Shelby County be, and the same is hereby vacated
Sec 2. That the present County road leading from Palestine by Isaac Walters, Richard Lagows Senr. Joshua Barbees and Eldridge S. Janneys farm, and from thence running a north westerly direction untill it intersects the Shelbyville State Road as located by the Commissioners appointed under the act of January the 16. 1836. and from Palestine to the Wabash River commencing at the South end of main East street, thence along the County Road that leads to the mouth of Lamott Creek untill it strikes the south East corner of South west quarter of section thirty five, Town Seven, Range No Eleven west, from thence South Eastwardly untill it strikes the high land on the south side of lamott Creek a few rods above Joseph Kitchells Brick yard, thence running a strait line as near as practicable untill it strikes the Section line, between Section one and Twelve in Town Six North, Range Eleven west, thence on said line to the River, be, and the same, is hereby declared a state road, and that so much of the County Road as lies between the East corner of the South west quarter of Section thirty five and the mouth of Lamott Creek be vacated

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Sec. 3 The county Commissioners Court of the County of Crawford shall appoint two competent persons, whose duty it shall be to mark and Survey said part of said State Road as lies between the South East corner of the south West quarter of Section thirty five[,] Town Seven[,] Range No Eleven West to the wabash River varying as little as practicable from the lines laid down in this act
Sec 4. The persons appointed by the Commissioners Court shall proceed to mark and survey said Road as soon as practicable and make their report to the Clerk of the County Commissioners Court, who shall record the same as far as any change may be made from a direct line, and when done shall be opened Sixty feet wide, and kept in repair as other state roads are, and the two persons shall receive one dollar and fifty cents out of the County Treasury, for every day they may be necessarily engaged in said work
This act shall be in force from and after its passage
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Passed H R Janry. 20th 1837.
D Prickett Clk[Clerk] H. R.

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An Act to change a part of the Road from Shelbyville to the wabash
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Handwritten Document, 4 page(s), Folder 198, HB 116, GA Session 10-1, Illinois State Archives (Springfield, IL) ,