In force 20th July, 1837.
AN ACT to locate a State Road in Vermilion County.
1Commissioners appointed
Sec.[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That Alexander McDonald, Andrew Mahemson, and Owen West, be, and they are hereby appointed commissioners to view mark, and locate a state
road from Danville, in Vermilion county, on the nearest route to the county line between the counties
of Vermilion and Champaign, where the county road from Danville to Urbanna, in Champaign county, crosses said line.
Time and place of meeting
Plat to be made
Sec. 2. The commissioners or a majority of them shall meet at Danville, on the first Monday in September next, or within two months thereafter, and, after
being first
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duly sworn before some justice of the peace, faithfully to perform the duties required
of them by this act, shall proceed to survey, mark, and locate said road, as is provided
in the first section of this act, having in view the public good as well as the damages
to private property, and shall, as soon as practicable thereafter, cause to be made a plat of said road, certified by them, which shall be filed in
the clerk’s office of the county commissioners’ court of Vermilion county; and when said road is thus laid out it shall be considered a state road, and shall
be opened and kept in repair as other state roads are.
Compensation
Sec. 3. The county commissioners’ court of Vermilion county, shall allow the sum of two dollars per day, each, to said commissioners, for each
day necessarily employed in said view and location, together with a reasonable allowance
for such necessary hands as they may employ.
This act to be in force from and after its passage.
Approved, 20th July, 1837.
1John W. Vance introduced SB 30 in the Senate on July 15, 1837. The Senate passed the bill on July 17. The House of Representatives concurred on July 17. On July 20, 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), 91, 95; 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), 56, 72-73, 79, 108-109, 114-15.
Printed Document, 2 page(s), Laws of the State of Illinois, Passed by the Tenth General Assembly, at their Special Session (Vandalia, IL: William Walters, 1837), 62-63, GA Session: 10-S,