Papers Of Abraham Lincoln

In force March 4, 1837.

AN ACT to establish a State road therein named.
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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 Daniel Travis, Cornelius D. Banta, and John Page,2 Esq.[Esquire] all residing near the town of Hanover, in the county of Tazewell, be and they are hereby appointed commissioners to view, survey and locate a State road from a point on the State road from Peoria to Ottawa, the nearest to the town of Hanover, in the county of Tazewell, through said town of

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Hanover, thence to pass as near as the nature of the ground and public convenience will permit, along the township line, between townships twenty six and twenty seven, and to intersect the State road from Vincennes to Chicago, at the crossing of said road on the Iroquois river.

When and where to meet.

Shall make survey and copy.

Sec. 2. The said commissioners, or a majority of them, shall meet at the town of Hanover on the first day of May next, or within three months thereafter, and after being duly sworn before some justice of the peace faithfully to observe the provisions of this act, shall proceed to view and locate said road, taking into consideration the locality of the ground and public convenience as aforesaid, and shall fix said road on the most advantageous ground for a permanent road; said commissioners shall on or before the first session of the county commissioners’ court after said location, make or cause to be made and delivered to the county commissioners court of each county through which said road shall pass, a true survey and copy of said road.

Road shall be worked.

Compensation.

Out of the county treasury.

Sec. 3. Said road when laid out as aforesaid, shall be deemed and considered a State road, shall be opened, worked and kept in repair, as other State roads are; and the said commissioners shall receive out of the county treasury of the respective counties through which said road may pass, at the rate of one dollar and fifty cents, for every day necessarily employed in locating so much of the road as may pass through such county, and the surveyor, chain-carriers, and others, necessarily employed in locating said road, shall receive such compensation for their services so rendered in each county, out of the county treasury as aforesaid, as to the county commissioners of such county, may seem just and right.

Approved March 4, 1837.

1On January 27, 1837, Benjamin Mitchell introduced SB 131 in the Senate. On February 2, the Senate passed the bill without amendment, and referred it to the House. On February 18, following the addition of certain names to the first section, the House too passed the bill. On February 23, the Senate altered the House amendments and once more passed the bill. March 4, the House having concurred with the Senate’s alterations, theCouncil of Revision approved the bill, and the act became law.
Illinois House Journal. 1836. 10th G. A., 1st sess., 452, 565, 641, 687, 842; Illinois Senate Journal. 1836. 10th G. A., 1st sess., 310, 328, 336, 461, 498, 582, 625-626, 639-640.

2On February 18 the House added the name John Woolsey in place of John Page. The Senate subsequently changed the name back to John Page on February 23. House Journal, 687; Senate Journal, 498.