In force, 1st March, 1837.
AN ACT to locate a part of the State road from Charleston to Paris.
1Commissioners to review road.
Sec.[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That Isaac Lewis, John Galbreth, and William Fewell, of Coles county, be, and they are hereby, appointed commissioners to review and re-locate so much of the State road2 leading from Charleston, in Coles county, to Paris in Edgar county, as lies between Samuel Lumbrick’s, and Robert Brooks’, in the county of Coles.3
When to meet and be sworn for said county of Coles.
Sec. 2. Said commissioners, or a majority of them, shall meet at said Lumbrick’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 review and re-locate, 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.
Commissioners empowered to employ assistance.
To make a map
Sec. 3. Said commissioners shall have power, if they shall deem it necessary, to employ a
competent surveyor and chain-men, to aid them in said location; and as soon as practicable
after 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.
Compensation.
Road to be opened.
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 shall be kept in repair as other State roads are.
Declared a State road.
Sec. 6. So much of a county road as now lies between the towns of Charleston, via Southerland’s ford, and Hitesville, be, and the same is hereby, declared a State road, and shall be opened and kept
in repair as other State roads are. This act to take effect from and after the first
day of May next.4
Approved, 1st March, 1837.
1On January 13, 1837, Nathaniel Parker in the Senate presented the petition of citizens of Coles County, requesting review of a part of a state road leading from Vandalia to Terre Haute. The House referred the petition to a select committee. In response to this petition,
Lunsford R. Noel from the select committee introduced SB 97 in the Senate on January 20. The Senate passed the bill on January 24. On January
27, the House of Representatives referred the bill to a select committee. The select committee reported back the
bill on February 10 with an amendment, in which the House concurred. On February
18, the House passed the bill as amended. On February 25, the Senate concurred in
the House amendment. On March 1, the Council of Revision approved the bill, and the act became law.
Illinois House Journal. 1836. 10th G. A., 1st sess., 373, 411-12, 549, 641, 719, 761, 767; Illinois Senate
Journal. 1836. 10th G. A., 1st sess., 205-206260, 276, 286, 461, 498, 517, 555, 590.
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.
4On February 10, 1837, the House of Representatives amended the bill by adding this section. The House added the in effect clause to this new section.
Illinois House Journal. 1836. 10th G. A., 1st sess., 549.
Printed Document, 1 page(s), Laws of the State of Illinois, Passed by the Tenth General Assembly (Vandalia, IL: William Walters, 1837), 234, GA Session: 10-1,