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An Act to locate a State Road from
Alton in Madison County to Elias Gwinns
on the Dry fork of Macoupin Creek
Be it enacted by the people of the state
of Illinois represented in the General Assembly
That Josiah Little and Alexander Hart
of Madison County & Moses True of Macoupin
County be and they are hereby appointed
Commissioners to mark view, mark, and locate
a State Road from Alton by way of Upper
Alton to the ford at Josiah Littles on the East
Fork of Wood River Thence on the shortest
and best route to Bunkerhill in Macoupin
County & from thence on the shortest and best
route to Elias Gwinns on the Dry fork of
Macoupin Creek in said County of Macoupin
Sec[Section] 2 The said Commissioners or any two of them shall meet at Bunkerhill on the second Monday in August or within ninety days thereafter, and after having been duly sworn by some Justice of the Peace, for the faithful performance of the duties enjoined upon them by this act, shall proceed to view, mark, and locate said road by setting stakes in the Prairie and blazing the Trees in the timber, and shall make out and return a complete plat of so it much of said
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road as lies in each of said Counties through which said road may pass, and return the same to the Clerks of the County Commissioner’s Courts of said Counties respectively, ^by the 3rd day of the December Term of said Courts^ to be by them filed and preserved in their their offices, And said roads when so load out shall be opened four rods wide, and kept in repair as other state roads are
sec 3 The County Commissioners Courts of Madison & Macoupin Counties, shall allow to said Commissioners and all persons, necessarily employed in surveying marking & locating said road, a reasonable compensation for their services, to be paid out of their County treasuries, in proportion to the time employed in each County in locating said road.

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An Act to locate a state Road from Alton to Elias Gwinns
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No 9.
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[07]/[14]/[1837]
Sel. com[Select committee]
Harris
Smith of M.
Reddick
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[07]/[17]/[1837]
To be Engrossed

Handwritten Document, 4 page(s), Folder 24, HB 24, GA Session 10-S, Illinois State Archives (Springfield, IL) ,