In force March 3d, I837.
AN ACT to legalise the survey of the town of Monmouth.
1Sec.[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That the survey heretofore executed in the year 1836, of the town of Monmouth, in the county of Warren, be and the same is hereby legalised and established as the proper survey for said town, and that all other surveys be and the same are hereby vacated.2
Approved 3d March, 1837.3
1On February 13, 1837, William J. Gatewood introduced SB 206, originally titled “An act to incorporate the company therein named,” in the Senate. On February 21, the Senate referred the bill to a select committee. The select
committee reported back the bill on February 24 with an amendment, in which the Senate
concurred. On February 25, the Senate passed the bill as amended, amending the title
so as to read, “A Bill to Legalized the Survey of the Town of Monmouth.” On February 28, the House of Representatives passed the bill. On March 3,Council of Revision approved the bill, and the act became law.
Illinois House Journal. 1836. 10th G. A., 1st sess., 718, 763, 819; Illinois Senate Journal. 1836. 10th G. A., 1st sess., 404, 478, 506, 520, 582, 608-609, 611-12.
2 Surveyors contracted under auspices of the county commissioners’ court of Warren County completed the first survey of Monmouth in May 1831. A change in the law governing surveying and recording of town plats
necessitated a second survey, which was completed and recorded in September 1834.
In response to remonstrances that the second survey was inaccurate, Warren County
officials surveyed the town a third time in July 1836.
“An Act providing for the Recording of Town Plats,” 27 February 1833, The Revised Laws of Illinois (1833), 599-602; Luther E. Robinson, ed., Historical and Biographical Record of Monmouth and Warren County Illinois (Chicago: Munsell, 1927), 1:209-10.
3Earlier in the same session, the General Assembly had passed an act related to surveys of Monmouth.
Printed Document, 1 page(s), Laws of the State of Illinois, Passed by the Tenth General Assembly (Vandalia, IL: William Walters, 1837), 333, GA Session: 10-1