In force, 1st March, 1837.
Names of commissioners.
Sec.[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That Levi Gimlen, of Macoupin county, Joseph E. Evans, of Montgomery county, and William Volintine, of Bond county be, and they are hereby appointed commissioners to lay out a State road2 from Carlinville in Macoupin county, to Greenville, in Bond county.
When and where to meet.
To take an oath.
Their duty.
Make a report.
Sec. 2. Said commissioners, or any two of them, shall meet at Carlinville on the first Monday of May next, or in two months thereafter; and, after taking an oath before some justice of the peace of said town, to observe the obligations of this act, shall proceed to view and lay out said road on the nearest and best way from the said town of Carlinville, to the said town of Greenville; and shall, as soon as practicable thereafter, cause to be made out a report of the location of said road, designating the most
noted points thereon, and return a copy of the same to the clerk of the county commissioners’ court of each of said counties, which shall be by him filed in his office; and said road
thus laid out, shall be, and is hereby, declared a public State road, and shall be
opened and kept in repair in the same manner as other public roads are.
Compensation.
Sec. 3. Said commissioners shall be paid a reasonable compensation out of the county treasury
of each county through which said road passes, not to exceed the sum of two dollars
per day, and an act to lay out a State road from Greenville, in Bond county, to Carlinville, in Macoupin county be, and the same is hereby repealed.
1On January 16, 1837, Richard Bentley introduced HB 130 in the House of Representatives. On January 26, the House referred the bill to a select committee. The select committee
reported back the bill on January 30 with an amendment, in which the House concurred.
The House passed the bill as amended on February 8. On February 12, the Senate referred the bill to a select committee. The select committee reported back the
bill on February 13 with an amendment, in which the Senate concurred. The Senate
passed the bill as amended on February 15. On February 25, the House concurred with
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., 244, 269, 400, 422, 519, 602, 719, 760, 795; Illinois
Senate Journal. 1836. 10th G. A., 1st sess., 376, 390, 398, 400, 432, 536, 554.
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.
3This act became dormant soon after passage, and in 1839, the General Assembly revived it with the passage of a omnibus road act.
Printed Document, 1 page(s), Laws of the State of Illinois, Passed by the Tenth General Assembly (Vandalia, IL: William Walters, 1837), 220, GA Session: 10-1