In force 10th February 1837
AN ACT to locate a State road from Atlas, in Pike county, to the south line of Adams county.
1Commissioners appointed to view road from Atlas via Rockport & Kinderhook, to south line of Adams county.
Sec.[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois represented in the General Assembly, That Robert Davis, Samuel A. Nissmith, and Joshua Woosley, of Pike county, be and they are hereby appointed commissioners to view, mark, and lay out a State
road from Atlas, via Rockport, New-Canton, and Kinderhook, to the south line of
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Adams county, under the Mississippi Bluff, doing as little injury to private property as the public good will admit.2When & where to meet
To be swown.
Oath
Duty
Oath
Duty
Sec. 2. That said commissioners shall meet at Atlas on the first Monday in April next, or within sixty days thereafter, and after being duly sworn before some justice of the peace of the county aforesaid well and truly to perform the duties required of them by this act, according
to the best of their skill and abilities, they shall proceed at the place of beginning,
and view, mark, and lay out said road, agreeably to the first section of this act,
locating said road on the nearest and most practicable route.
May employ a surveyor &c.[etc.] & make report with a plat and survey, & file it with clerk.
Road to be opened
Sec. 3. Said commissioners are authorized to employ a surveyor and necessary chainmen to
assist in locating said road, and shall make report of all the principal points, together
with a plat and survey thereof certified by said surveyor, and file the same with
the clerk of the county commissioners’ court within thirty days after having located the same, which report shall be laid before
the county commissioners’ court at their next term by their clerk, whose duty it shall be to cause the same to be recorded in the records of said court: and said road shall be opened and kept in repair accordingly.
Compensation
Sec. 4. Said commissioners, surveyor, and chain-carriers shall receive such compensation
for their services, not exceeding two dollars per day, as the commissioners’ court may deem just, to be paid out of the county treasury.
Approved, 10th February, 1837.
1On January 16, 1837, William Ross in the Senate presented the petition of citizens of Pike County, requesting a state road from Atlas to Adams County. The Senate referred the petition to a select committee. In response to this petition,
Ross from the select committee introduced SB 84 in the Senate on January 17. The Senate passed the bill on January 19. The House of Representatives concurred on February 6. On February 10, the Council of Revision approved the bill, and the act became law.
Illinois House Journal. 1836. 10th G. A., 1st sess., 295, 321-22, 427, 487, 530, 544; Illinois Senate Journal. 1836. 10th G. A., 1st sess., 223, 238, 249, 255, 360, 373, 383-84, 389.
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), 251-52, GA Session: 10-1