In force 21st July, 1837.
AN ACT to locate a State Road from Alton to Elias Gwinn’s.
1Commissioners appointed
State road
Sec.[Section] 1. 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, and Moses True of Macoupin county, be and they are hereby appointed commissioners to view, mark, and locate a state
road from Alton, by way of Upper Alton, to the ford at Josiah Little’s, on the East Fork of Wood River, thence on the shortest and best route to Bunker Hill, in Macoupin county, and from thence the road as now travelled to Elias Gwinn’s on the Dry Fork of Macoupin Creek, shall be and the same is hereby declared a state road; and the review and survey
of said road shall continue no further than Bunker Hill. 2
Time & place of meeting
How to mark road
To make map
Where filed
Sec. 2. The said commissioners, or any two of them, shall meet at Bunker Hill 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 much of said road as lies in
each of said counties through which said road may pass, and return the same to the
clerks of the county commissioners’ courts of said counties respectively, by the third day of the December term of said courts3, to be by them filed and preserved in their offices; and said road, when so laid out,
shall be opened four rods wide, and kept in repair as other state roads are.
Compensation
Sec. 3. The county commissioners’ courts of Madison and Macoupin counties shall allow to said commissioners, and all persons necessarily employed
in surveying, marking, and 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.
Approved, 21st July, 1837.
1On July 12, 1837, Robert Smith in the House of Representatives presented the petition of citizens of Madison County, requesting location of a state road through the county. The House referred the
petition to a select committee. In response to this petition, Smith from the aforesaid
select committee introduced HB 24 in the House on July 14. The House referred the bill to a select committee. The
select committee reported back the bill on July 17 with an amendment, in which the
House concurred. The House passed the bill as amended on July 18. The Senate concurred on July 20. On July 21, the Council of Revision approved the bill and the act became law.
2On July 17, 1837, the House of Representatives amended the bill by adding the clause after the words “Macoupin Creek.”
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), 89
3On July 17, 1837, the House of Representatives amended the bill by adding reference to the December terms of the respective courts.
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), 89
Printed Document, 1 page(s), Laws of the State of Illinois, Passed by the Tenth General Assembly, at their Special Session (Vandalia, IL: William Walters, 1837), 70, GA Session: 10-S