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In force 3d March, 1837
AN ACT for a state road from McLeansboro’ to Golconda in Pope county.
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Commissioners authorised
Duty.
Report.
Declared a state road.
Sec.[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That John Morse of Pope county, David J. Blackman of Galatin county, and Thomas Barker of Hamilton county, be and they are hereby appointed commissioners to view, lay out, and mark a road from McLeansboro’ in Hamilton county, to Golconda in Pope county, so as to intersect the state road2 leading from Vandalia to Golconda, Paducah and Wilcoxe’s ferry3 by the nearest and best route for the same, having in view the highest and most suitable ground for the location thereof, and report the same, together with a description thereof, under their hands, to the county commissioners’ court of the said counties of Hamilton, Gallatin and Pope, on or before the first term after the said view, and the number of days employed by them respectively in each county in said work, and the said road when so viewed, marked, and reported, shall be deemed a state road, and kept in repair as other state roads are.
Where and when to meet.
To be sworn
Compensation
Sec. 2. The said commissioners or a majority of them, shall on or before the first day of September next, or within three months thereafter, meet at the town of Golconda in Pope county, and after being duly sworn before some justice of the peace, proceed to lay out said road as directed in the preceding section, and the county courts’ of Hamilton, Gallatin, and Pope, shall respectively allow the commissioners a sum equal to two dollars per day for every day they shall be engaged in viewing and marking said road, so far as the same may be in Hamilton county, and the county court of Gallatin county shall make said commissioners the same allowance for such time as they shall be engaged in viewing and marking said road, so far as the same shall be in the county of Gallatin; and the county court of Pope county, shall make the said commissioners the same allowance for such time as they shall be engaged in reviewing and marking said road, so far as the same shall be in Pope county.
Commissioners appointed to view road from Willcoxs’s to Davis’s.
Duty.
Report.
Sec. 3. Jesse Kennady,4 David Shearer, and Hughy
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Johnson,5 of Johnson county, be and they are hereby appointed commissioners to view, lay out, and mark a road from Wilcoxs’s ferry on the Ohio river, so far as the Johnson county line extends, in the direction to John T. Davis’ mill in Franklin county, by the way of Joseph Hoydarulls’ by the nearest and best route for the same, having in view the most suitable ground for the location thereof, and report the same together with a description thereof, under their hands to the county commissioners court of the said county of Johnson, on or before the first term after said view, and the number of days employed by them respectively in said work, and the said road when so viewed, marked, and reported, shall be deemed a state road, and kept in repair as other state roads are.
When and where to meet
To be sworn.
Compensation
Sec. 4. The said commissioners or a majority of them, shall on or before the first Monday of June next, or within three months thereafter, meet at the town of Vienna in said county of Johnson, and after being duly sworn before some justice of the peace, proceed to lay out said road as directed in the preceding section, and the county court of Johnson county shall allow the said commissioners a reasonable compensation for their services.6
Approved March 3, 1837.
1On January 31, 1837, James A. Whiteside introduced SB 146 in the Senate. On February 3, the Senate passed the bill. On February 20, the House of Representatives amended the bill by adding two additional sections. On February 24, the House passed the bill as amended. On February 28, the Senate concurred with the House amendments. On March 3,Council of Revision approved the bill, and the act became law.
Illinois House Journal. 1836. 10th G. A., 1st sess., 470, 474, 649-50, 697, 773, 819; Illinois Senate Journal. 1836. 10th G. A., 1st sess., 325, 337, 344-45, 526, 561, 608-609, 611-12.
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.
An Act concerning Public Roads, sec. 9; An Act Authorizing Commissioners’ Courts to Alter, Change, and Relocate State Roads; An Act concerning Public Roads.
3This ferry was owned and operated by James H. G. Wilcox.
4The House Journal lists this name as Jesse Kennedy.
Illinois House Journal. 1836. 10th G. A., 1st sess., 650.
5The House Journal lists this name as Hardy Johnson. Census records confirm that the name was probably Hardy Johnson.
Illinois House Journal. 1836. 10th G. A., 1st sess., 650; U.S. Census Office, Seventh Census of the United States (1850), District 2, Johnson, IL, 723.
6On February 20, 1837, the House of Representatives amended the bill by adding sections three and four.
Illinois House Journal. 1836. 10th G. A., 1st sess., 650.

Printed Document, 2 page(s), Laws of the State of Illinois, Passed by the Tenth General Assembly (Vandalia, IL: William Walters, 1837), 296-97, GA Session: 10-1