Papers Of Abraham Lincoln

In force 21st July, 1837.

AN ACT to locate certain Roads therein named.
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Commissioners appointed to relocate road

Time & place of meeting

To make report

Road vacated

Compensation

Sec.[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That Joshua P. Crow, Reddick Horn, and Stephen Lee, are hereby appointed commissioners to review, mark, and relocate that part of the state road leading from Springfield to Beardstown, which lies between Archibald Job’s, and William Babb’s bridge: said commissioners shall meet at Job’s, at any time before the first of January next, and being first sworn by some justice of the peace, shall proceed to perform the duties herein imposed upon them. Said commis-

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sioners shall make a full report of the location of said road, to the county commissioners’ court of Cass county; and after the road so relocated by them shall be opened, the former survey of the part of said road so relocated shall be vacated. The county commissioners’ court of the county of Cass, shall allow to said commissioners a reasonable compensation for their services out of the county treasury.

Commissioners appointed

Place of commencement

Sec. 2. That Julius Elmore, of Sangamon county, Thomas Boyce and J. R. Bennett, of Morgan county, be and they are hereby appointed commissioners to view, mark and locate, a state road, commencing at a mile post south of Peter Cartright’s in Sangamon county, thence to William Crow’s in Morgan county, running as near as practicable to the old road leading from one point to the other, and there intersect the road laid out by the county commissioners’ court of Morgan county, leading to Princeton, and thence west with said survey as far as Stark Gilliams’, thence through the settlement of Henry Keltner’s timber, thence to the head timber of Walnut Grove, thence to New Virginia.

Time & place of meeting

Sec. 3. That said commissioners, or any two of them, shall meet at the house of Peter Cartright, in Sangamon county, on the second Monday in August next, or as soon as practicable thereafter, and before entering on the discharge of their duties, shall take an oath before some justice of the peace of Sangamon county, faithfully and impartially to observe all the duties enjoined upon them by this act, shall proceed to view, mark, and locate said road, beginning and touching the points as named in section second.

Make map, & file in clerk’s office.

Sec. 4. Said commissioners shall cause a map or survey to be made of said road, to be filed in the office of the clerks of the county commissioners’ courts of Sangamon and Morgan; and the county commissioners’ courts of each county through which the road shall pass, shall allow the said commissioners such compensation for their services as shall be just and reasonable, in proportion to the services rendered in each county.

Sec. 5. Said road shall be opened and kept in repair as other state roads are; and shall take effect and be in force from and after the passage of this act.

Approved, 21st July, 1837.2

1On July 11, 1837, John Wyatt in the House of Representatives presented the petition of citizens of Morgan County, requesting a change in a certain state road. The House referred the petition to the Committee on Petitions. In response to this petition, Wyatt of the Committee of Petitions introduced HB 4, originally titled “A Bill to Vacate Part of a State Road from Beardstown to Springfield, in the House on July 11. The House passed the bill on July 14. On July 15, the House re-considered this vote, referring the bill to a select committee. The select committee reported back the bill with an amendment, in which the House concurred. The House passed the bill as amended, amending the title so as to read “A Bill to Locate Certain Roads Therein Named.” On July 17, the Senate referred the bill to a select committee. The select committee reported back the bill on July 18 with an amendment, in which the Senate concurred. The Senate passed the bill as amended. The House concurred with the Senate amendments on July 21. On July 21, the Council of Revision approved the bill and the act became law.
Journal of the House of Representatives of the Tenth General Assembly of the State of Illinois, at a Special Session of the General Assembly, Begun and Held in the Town of Vandalia, July 10, 1837 (Vandalia, IL: William Walters, 1837), 25, 26, 64, 73, 82, 154, 161, 176, 182; Journal of the Senate of the Tenth General Assembly of the State of Illinois, at a Special Session, Begun and Held in Vandalia, July 10, 1837 (Vandalia, IL: William Walters, 1837), 72, 77-78, 77, 84-85, 120, 138, 144.

2On July 15, 1837, the House of Representatives amended the bill title from “A Bill to Vacate Part of a State Road from Beardstown to Springfield,” to “A Bill to Locate Certain Roads Therein Named.”
Journal of the House of Representatives of the Tenth General Assembly of the State of Illinois, at a Special Session of the General Assembly, Begun and Held in the Town of Vandalia, July 10, 1837 (Vandalia, IL: William Walters, 1837), 82.