Papers Of Abraham Lincoln

In force 22d July, 1837.

AN ACT relating to certain Roads in Fayette and Shelby Counties.
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Commissioners appointed

State road

Sec.[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That John J. Page, Peter Parker, and Jeremiah Bauling, of the county of Shelby, be, and they are hereby appointed commissioners to view, survey, and locate, so much of the State road leading from Shelbyville, in Shelby county, to Vandalia, in Fayette county, as lies between the center of section 13, town 11 north, range 3 east, and the town of Shelbyville.

Time and place of meeting

Shall be sworn

Sec. 2. The said commissioners shall meet in the town of Shelbyville, on or before the 25th day of December next, or as soon thereafter as convenient, and after being duly sworn by some justice of the peace, well and truly to perform the duties above required, shall proceed to survey and locate said road, as required by this act.

Supervisors

Sec. 3. The said road, when laid out as aforesaid, shall be deemed and considered a state road, and the county commissioners’ court of said county shall appoint supervi-

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sors over the same, and cause it to be opened and kept in repair as other state roads are.

Compensation

Sec. 4. The commissioners appointed under the provisions of this act, shall receive a just and fair compensation for the time they are necessarily employed; and they shall employ a surveyor and chain-carriers, who shall receive a fair compensation for their services, to be paid out of said county treasury.

1st section of act amended

Proviso

Sec. 5. That the first section of an act to locate a road from Vandalia to Springfield, be so amended as to require the commissioners mentioned in said section to meet on the first Monday in October next, or as soon thereafter as practicable, to enter upon the duties required in said act; and that in the survey of the road therein mentioned, said commissioners begin at Vandalia, and proceed thence to Mount Pleasant, via Edinburg and Whitecraft’s mill, to Springfield, on the best and most suitable ground, as the act aforesaid requires; Provided, That the county of Montgomery shall not be required to pay any part of portion of the expense of viewing, surveying, and locating said road.

1st section of act amended

Commissioners

Time of meeting extended

Sec. 6. That the first section of an act to locate a state road from Hardy Foster’s, in Marion county, to Shelbyville, in Shelby county, be so amended that Hezekiah Thompson and Robert A. Holmes, of Fayette county, and James W. Vaughn, of Shelby county, be the commissioners to view and survey the road in said act mentioned; and that the time of the meeting of said commissioners be extended to the fifteenth day of September, or as soon thereafter as practicable.2

Approved, July 22d, 1837.

1Peter Warren introduced SB 38, originally titled "A Bill to Locate a State Road from Shelbyville in Shelby County" in the Senate on July 15, 1837. The Senate referred the bill to a select committee. The select committee reported back the bill on July 17 with an amendment, in which the Senate concurred. The Senate passed the bill as amended on July 18. On July 20, the House of Representatives amended the bill by adding several sections in relation to the location of roads in Fayette County. The House passed the bill as amended, striking out the original title and inserting in lieu thereof “A Bill Relating to Certain Roads in Fayette and Shelby Counties.” The Senate concurred in the House amendments and amended title on July 21.On July 22, 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), 142-43, 165, 181; 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), 58, 71, 87-88, 118-19, 121, 146.

2On July 20, 1837, the House of Representatives amended the bill by adding several sections relating to the location of roads in Fayette County. It also amended the title.
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), 142-43.