Papers Of Abraham Lincoln

In force 24th February, 1837

AN ACT to locate a State road from opposite Clarksville, at the ferry, in Calhoun county, to intersect the State road near Pittsfield, in Pike county.
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Commissioners appointed.

Sec.[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois represented in the General Assembly, That David Hubbard, David Chandler and Thomas Barton be and they are hereby appointed commissioners to view, mark, and locate a State road from the ferry opposite the town of Clarksville in Missouri, to the town of Fairfield, thence to Martinsburg, thence to intersect the State road leading from Gilead to Pittsfield at the corner of sections No. 11, 12, 13, and 14, in township six south, and range four west.

Time & place of meeting.

Shall be sworn

Shall view, mark & locate said road.

Sec. 2. The said commissioners, or a majority of them, shall meet at Fairfield on the first Monday in May next, or within sixty days thereafter, and after being duly sworn before some justice of the peace faithfully to discharge the duties required of them by this act, shall proceed to view, mark, and locate said road on the most eligible ground, doing as little injury to private property as the public good will admit.

May employ a surveyor.

Duty of clerk of county commissioners court

Road shall be opened.

Compensation.

Sec. 3. The said commissioners are authorized to employ a surveyor to survey said road, and shall make out a plat and survey of said road certified by the surveyor within thirty days after the same shall have been surveyed, and deliver the same to the clerk of the county commissioners’ court, whose duty it shall be to lay the same before the next county commissioners’ court, and said court shall cause the same to be recorded in the records of said court. The road when located as aforesaid shall be opened four poles wide, and kept in repair by order of the county commissioners court; said reviewers and surveyor shall receive such compensation for their services as the county commissioners court may deem just, not exceeding two dollars per day for each day’s service necessarily employed in locating and establishing said road.

Approved 24th February, 1837.

1On January 16, 1837, William Ross submitted a petition to the Senate from citizens of Pike and Calhoun counties asking for the creation of a state road. The Senate then referred the petition to a select committee. On January 18, William Ross, a member of the select committee, introduced SB 90 in the Senate. On January 19, the Senate ordered the bill read a second time and resubmitted to the select committee. On January 21, the select committee reported the bill without amendment. On January 23, the Senate passed the bill. On January 26, the House of Representatives referred the bill to a select committee. On February 9, the select committee reported the bill without amendment. On February 18, the House passed the bill. On February 24, the Council of Revision approved the bill and the act became law.
Illinois House Journal. 1836. 10th G. A., 1st sess., 361, 403-04, 536, 640-41, 690; Illinois Senate Journal. 1836. 10th G. A., 1st sess., 143, 154, 163, 378, 483, 491-492, 512-513.