In force March 2, 1837
AN ACT to locate a State road therein named, and for other purposes.
1Commissioners appointed
Sec.[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That John Shrader, William Snap, and Isaac Keller of the county of Edgar, be and they are hereby appointed commissioners to view, mark, and locate a state
road2 from Grand View in Edgar county, to intersect the state road leading from Paris to Springfield, at or near Nathaniel Wayne’s in said county.3
Place of meeting.
Sec. 2. Said commissioners or a majority of them, shall meet at Grand View on the first Monday in April next or within ninety days thereafter, and after being
first duly sworn before some justice of the peace for said county, faithfully to discharge the duties enjoined upon them by this act, shall proceed
to view, mark, and locate said road on the best practicable route for a permanent
location and the public convenience, doing as little damage to private property as
the nature of the case will permit.4
May employ assistants
Sec. 3. The said commissioners may employ one surveyor and two chain carries, and shall cause said road to be surveyed, and a map of said survey shall be made
out and returned to the clerk of the county commissioners’ court of Edgar county, the plat of said road when so returned shall make a part of the records of said
court.
Sec. 4. The commissioners shall mark the trees through the timber, and set stakes in the
ground through the prairie on the location of said road.
Compensation
Sec. 5. The county commissioners’ court of Edgar county shall allow to said commissioners, surveyor, and chain carriers a reasonable compensation
for their services, in
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the location and survey of said road, to be paid out of the county treasury, said
road when located shall be a state road, and opened and kept in repair as other state
roads are required by law to be.
Declared a state road.
Sec. 6. The present travelled road leading from Grandview via J. Mouzye’s, thence to Mr. Moffitt’s, thence to R. Gill’s, thence to Smith’s
mill, thence to R. Henson’s, thence to Mr. Stephens’, thence to Elijah Wells’s, and from thence to the county line, in a direction to Livingston on the Cumberland road in Clark county, be and the same is hereby declared a state road, the same to be kept in repair as
other state roads are: Provided, the same shall not be opened more than thirty feet wide.
Approved March 2, 1837.
1On January 5, 1837, Gideon Minor in the House of Representatives presented the petition of citizens of Edgar and Clark counties, requesting location of a certain state road. The House referred the petition
to a select committee. In response to this petition, Minor of the select committee
introduced HB 119 in the House on January 13. The House passed the bill on February 8. On February
11, the Senate referred the bill to a select committee. The select committee reported back the
bill on February 15 with amendments, in which the Senate concurred. The Senate passed
the bill as amended. On February 25, the House concurred in the Senate amendments.
On March 2, the Council of Revision approved the bill, and the act became law.
Illinois House Journal. 1836. 10th G. A., 1st sess., 175, 250, 397, 519, 597, 719, 793, 806; Illinois Senate
Journal. 1836. 10th G. A., 1st sess., 377, 399, 414, 536, 590.
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, 2 page(s), Laws of the State of Illinois, Passed by the Tenth General Assembly (Vandalia, IL: William Walters, 1837), 291-92, GA Session: 10-1