In force Feb[February] 15th, 1837
AN ACT to locate a State road from John Orender’s, in Marion county, to Elijah Nelson’s, in Clay county.
1Commissioners appointed to view road from Orender’s to Nelson’s.
Sec.[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois represented in the General Assembly, That John Orender, of Marion county, William Lewis and John W. Sullivan be and they are hereby appointed commissioners to view and locate a State road from
John Orender’s, in the county of Marion, to Elijah Nelson’s, in the county of Clay.2
Where and when to meet
to be sworn
Oath
Duty
Duty
Sec. 2. Said commissioners shall meet, or any two of them, at Louisville, in the county of Clay, on the first Monday of May next, or within sixty days thereafter, and after being duly sworn before some justice of the peace of said county, faithfully and impartially to observe all the duties enjoined on them by this act, shall proceed to view and locate said road, commencing at John Orender’s, in the county of Marion, so as to intersect the State road leading from Vandalia to Maysville, thence to cross the Little Wabash at Louisville below Green’s Mill,3 thence with the county road at or near Elijah Nelson’s, thence to intersect the State road leading from Maysville to Louisville, in the county of Lawrence.
Map & survey to be filed
Compensation
Sec. 3. Said commissioners shall cause a map or survey of said road to be filed in the office
of the clerk of the several county commissioners’ courts of the counties through which said road shall pass, and the county commissioners’ courts of such counties shall allow the said commissioners such compensation for their services
as shall be just and reasonable, in proportion to the services rendered in each county.
Declared a State road.
Sec. 4. Said road shall be opened and kept in repair as other State roads are.4
Approved, 15th February, 1837.
1Isaac Courtright from the introduced HB 150 in the House of Representatives on January 27, 1837, and the House referred the bill to a select committee. The select
committee reported back the bill back on January 30 with amendments, in which the
House concurred. On February 6, the House passed the bill as amended. The Senate passed the bill on February 11. On February 15, the Council of Revision approved the bill, and the act became law.
Illinois House Journal. 1836. 10th G. A., 1st sess., 406-07, 429, 487, 556, 571, 605; Illinois Senate Journal. 1836. 10th G. A., 1st sess., 359, 375, 387, 396, 400.
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, 1 page(s), Laws of the State of Illinois, Passed by the Tenth General Assembly (Vandalia, IL: William Walters, 1837), 214, GA Session: 10-1