Sec[Section] 1. Be it e[nacted by the people of] the State of Illinois represe[nted in the] [General As]sembly: That, Isaac [Lewis][,] [John] Galbreth and William Fewell of [Coles Co]unty, be and they are hereby appoin[ted co]mmissioners to review and relocate so much of the state road leading from Charleston in Coles county to Paris in Edgar County, as lies between Samuel Lumbreck[]s and Robert Brooks’ in the county of Coles.
Sec 2. Said commissioners or a majority of them shall meet at said Lumbreck[]s on the first day of May next, or within Sixty days thereafter, and after being first duly sworn by some acting Justice of the Peace for said county of Coles faithfully to discharge the duties enjoined upon them by this act, shall proceed to view and relocate and establish said road on the nearest practicable route for a permanent location, crossing the Embarrass river at some suitable point for the erection of a bridge across said river doing as little damage to private property as the nature of the case will permit.
Sec 3. Said commissioners shall have power, if they shall deem it necessary, to employ a competent surveyor and Chainmen to aid them in said location, and as soon as practicable after
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said road is located said commissioners, or a majority of them shall make out a report accompanied by a map of said road under their hands and seals, and transmit the same to the county commissioners court of Coles County, which shall become a part of the records of said court.
Sec 4. The County Commissioners of Coles County shall allow to ^said^ reviewers and hands employed such compensation for their services as they shall deem right and proper, to be paid out of the county treasury.
Sec 5. And said road when so located shall be opened the same width that the original road is, and kept in repair as other state roads are.
This act to take effect from and after the first day of May next.
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Passed the Senate, Jany 24. 1837
J B Thomas Jr
Sec’y[Secretary] Senate

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A Bill entitled An act to relocate a part of the State Road from Charleston to Paris.
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1These legislators formed a select committee in the Senate that considered the bill.
Illinois Senate Journal. 1836. 10th G. A., 1st sess., 498.

Handwritten Document, 4 page(s), Folder 357, SB 97, GA Session 10-1, Illinois State Archives [Springfield, IL] ,