In force March 4, 1837.
AN ACT supplemental to the act incorporating the Kaskaskia Bridge Company.
1Act relatting to Kaskaskia Bridge Company repealed
Co. commissioners of Randolph co. may subscribe stock
How stock to be paid
Sec.[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That the provisions of the act passed at the present session of the General Assembly, incorporating the Kaskaskia Bridge Company, which requires the company to permit the citizens of the county of Randolph to pass free from toll, are hereby repealed;2 and the county commissioners of Randolph county are hereby authorized to subscribe for five thousand dollars worth of stock in the
said company, to be paid out of the appropriation made to Randolph county by the 15th article of the 18th section of an act entitled “An act to establish and maintain an general system of Internal Improvements,” passed during the present session of the General Assembly, so soon as the same shall be received by said county.3
Co. commissioners of White county may subscribe stock to Carmi Bridge company
Sec. 2. The county commissioners of White county are hereby authorized and required to subscribe for five thousand dollars worth of
stock in the Carmi Bridge Company, to be paid out of the appropriation made to White county by the 15th article of the eighteenth section of an act entitled “An act to establish and maintain a general system of Internal Improvements,” passed during the present session of the General Assembly, so soon as the same shall be received by the said county of White.4
Approved 4th March, 1837.
1On February 13, 1837, Richard B. Servant introduced SB 215, originally titled “An act to put more money into the pockets of the people than
you take out,” in the Senate. On February 15, the Senate referred the bill to a select committee. The select
committee reported back the bill on February 17 with an amendment, in which the Senate
concurred. On February 21, the Senate passed the bill as amended, amending the title
by striking out all after the word “Act” and inserting in lieu thereof the words “Supplemental
to the Act Incorporating the Kaskaskia Bridge Company.” On February 27, the House of Representatives referred the bill to a select committee. The select committee reported back the
bill on March 2 with an amendment, in which the House concurred. The House passed
the bill as amended. On the same day, the Senate referred the bill and House amendments
to a select committee. The select committee reported back the bill on March 3 with
amendments to the House amendments, in which the Senate concurred. The Senate concurred
in the House amendments as amended. Later that same day, the House concurred in the
Senate amendments. On March 4, the Council of Revision approved the bill, and the act became law.
Illinois House Journal. 1836. 10th G. A., 1st sess., 667, 736, 800, 819, 835, 854; Illinois Senate Journal. 1836. 10th G. A., 1st sess., 405, 438, 447, 477, 588, 601, 623, 636-37, 639-41.
3Section eighteen, sub-section fifteen, of the internal improvement act appropriated $200,000 to counties through which no railroad or canal was provided
at the expense of the State. This money was to be distributed proportionally based on the most recent census.
The money was to be used to improve roads, build bridges, and construct other necessary
public works. Randolph County was among the counties entitled to an appropriation. By December 1838, the fund
commissioners had distributed $145,510 to sixteen counties. There appears to be some
discrepancy on the amount distributed. Krenkel and the Sangamo Journal cite the total as $144,700, but a tabulation of the figures printed in the Sangamo
Journal results in $145,510. By December 1838, Randolph County had received $14, 237.50.
John H. Krenkel, Illinois Internal Improvements 1818-1848 (Cedar Rapids, IA: Torch, 1958), 83-84; Sangamo Journal 12 January 1839, 2:1.
4White County was also among the counties entitled to an appropriation under the provisions of
section eighteen, sub-section fifteen. By December 1838, White County had received
$15,535.
Sangamo Journal 12 January 1839, 2:1.
Printed Document, 1 page(s), Incorporation Laws of the State of Illinois, Passed at a Session of the General Assembly (Vandalia, IL: William Walters, 1837), 331, GA Session: 10-1