In force March 2d, 1837.
Declared a state road
Shall be worked
Shall be worked
Commissioners appointed.
Vermillion and Champaign.
Shall be sworn.
Surveyor
To fix stakes in Prairie.
Shall file a copy of.
Field notes.
Clerks to file.
Sec.[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That all that part of the county road that lies between Danville and the county line in Vermillion county, on the county road from Danville to Urbana, is hereby declared a state road,2 and shall be worked and kept in repair as other state roads are, and that William Knox and Henry Sodorus of Champaign county, and James A. Platt of Macon county, be and they are hereby appointed commissioners to view, survey, and locate a state
road commencing on the county line between the counties of Vermillion and Champaign counties, where the road from Danville to Urbana crosses the same, thence on the best and most eligible ground to Sidney in Champaign county, from thence in like manner to Decatur in Macon county: said commissioners or a majority of them, shall meet at Sidney in Champaign county, on the first Monday of June next, or within three months thereafter, and after being duly sworn according to law, shall proceed to locate said road, commencing
at the county line between the counties of Vermillion and Champaign, where said county road crosses the same, shall proceed with the aid of a county surveyor of one of the counties aforesaid,
to view, survey, and locate the road aforesaid, on the best ground and on the most
eligible route, for the same; taking into consideration the accommodation of travellers and the citizens of the counties aforesaid, and they shall designate the whole route,
by driving firmly in the ground stakes through the prairies, and by marking the trees
through the timber, by three hacks on both sides of each tree they shall mark to designate
such road; and said commissioners shall on or before the first day of September next,
file in the office of the clerk of the county commissioners’ court of each of the counties through which said road shall run, a copy of the survey of
said road, together with a copy of the field notes of the county surveyor, and a return or report
of their doings, which said survey, field notes, and report shall be filed by each of said clerks respectively in his office, as a
public record of said road, and the doings of said commissioners in the premises.3
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Compensation.
Sec. 2. Said commissioners shall each of them receive a compensation at the rate of two dollars
each per day, to be paid out of the county treasuries of the several counties through
which said road shall pass, to be paid on the order of the county commissioners courts of said counties respectively, as a full compensation for their services.
Approved March 2d, 1837.
1James H. Lyons introduced HB 128 in the House of Representatives on January 14, 1837. The House passed the bill on February 2. On February 8, the
Senate referred the bill to a select committee. The select committee reported back the bill
on February 10 with an amendment, in which the Senate concurred. On February 11,the
Senate passed the bill as amended. On February 25, the House concurred in the Senate
amendment. On March 2, the Council of Revision approved the bill, and the act became law.
Illinois House Journal. 1836. 10th G. A., 1st sess., 189, 259, 397, 455, 556, 719, 793, 806; Illinois Senate
Journal. 1836. 10th G. A., 1st sess., 348, 370, 383, 396, 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), 230-31, GA Session: 10-1