Sec[Section] 1. Be it enacted be the People of the State of Illinois represented in the General Assembly that Daniel Travis, Joshua Woosley[,] & William Devenport be and they are hereby appointed commissioners whose duty it shall be or a majority
of them to review, remark, and relocate, so much of the State Road running from Springfield in Sangamon County to Ottawa in Lasalle County as lies in the Walnut Grove in the County of Tazewell
Sec 2. Said Commissioners or a majority of them shall meet at some suitable place in
said Grove in the month of April next or as soon thereafter as practicable and proceed
to review & relocate said part of said Road in such manner as will best subserve the
Publick convenience and do the least injury to farms & improvements.
Sec 3d The said commissioners shall mark the Route of the said Road on the Trees where the
Route shall run through Timbered land and also at the end of every quarter of a mile
firmly drive in the ground durable stakes.
Sec 4 When the Road shall be thus laid out it shall be the duty of the county Commissioners court of the County of Tazewell to cause the same to be opened four poles wide and to be worked upon and kept in
repair as other publick roads and the said road shall be deemed a state road & shall not be altered or turned
out of its course under any pretense whatsoever except by an act of the Legislature.
Sec 5 The said commissioners as soon after locating said road as practicable ^(shall)^ make out and return to the County Commissioners court a complete map of the route of said Road and it shall be the duty of the said court to cause due entry to be ^By com^ made of Record of the said Report.
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Sec 6th Said Commissioners shall receive for their services such compensation as the county commissioners Court ^of Tazewel county^ shall think proper to allow them
This act shall take effect & be in force from and after it passage
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A Bill for an act to change a State road therein named
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Handwritten Document, 4 page(s), Folder 393, SB 135, GA Session 10-1, Illinois State Archives [Springfield, IL] ,