Sec[Section] 1 Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois represented in the General Assembly; That R. M. Sweet of Cook county, Isaac P Hallock Lasalle county, and Benjamin Fridley of Kane county be and they are hereby appointed commissioners to view, survey, mark[,] and locate a road from the court house in Ottowa by Greene’s mill, William L Dunavan’s, Vetal Vermit’s, Georgetown, George Hollandback’s, William Harris’, Edward G. Ament[’’]s, and from thence to Naper’sville on the nearest and best route.
Sec 2. Said commissioners, or a majority of them, shall meet on the first day of May
next, or within four weeks thereafter, at Napersville and, after being duly sworn, before some Justice of the peace faithfully to discharge
the duties required of them by this act, shall locate said road on the nearest and
best route. And as soon as practicable thereafter cause a map to be made of said road
and filed in the clerk offices of the county Commissioners Courts of the Counties of Lasalle, Kane, and Cook and said road shall be kept in repair as other public roads are.
Sec 3. Said Commissioners shall be allowed, the sum of two dollars per day for all the
time, necessarily employed in said work, together with a reasonable compensation for
one surveyor[,] two Chain Carriers[,] and one marker, which several sums shall be paid by the Counties through which said
road shall pass, in proportion to the extent of said road in each County.
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A Bill entitled An Act to locate a State Road from Ottowa in Lasalle County to Napersville in Cook County.
A Bill entitled An Act to locate a State Road from Ottowa in Lasalle County to Napersville in Cook County.
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Handwritten Document, 2 page(s), Folder 278, SB 15, GA Session 10-1, Illinois State Archives (Springfield, IL) ,