In force Feb. 4, 1837.
Commissioners appointed to locate road,
Sec.[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That John Montague of Hancock county, Daniel Campbell of McDonough county, and Amos Stevens of Peoria county, and William Walters of Fulton county, be and they are hereby appointed commissioners to view, survey, mark and locate
a State road from Warsaw, in Hancock county, through Carthage, on the
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nearest and best route to McComb in McDonough county, from thence to Canton in Fulton county, and from thence to Peoriain Peoria county, having in view its permanency, and doing as little injury to private property as
the public good will permit.
When and where to meet
Shall be sworn
Shall put up stakes in the prairie.
Sec. 2. The said commissioners or a majority of them, shall meet at Warsaw on the second Monday in May next, or within six months thereafter, and after being duly sworn before some justice of the peace of the said county of Hancock, faithfully to discharge the duties required of them by this act, shall proceed to
view, survey, mark and locate said road, designating the route by setting stakes in the prairie, and marks on the trees in
the timber, and shall make a report accompanied with a map or plat of said road, giving
the courses and distances from point to point, and return a copy of said report and
plat to the clerk of the county commissioners court of each of said counties through which said road shall pass, which shall be filed
by him in his office, and said road thus laid out shall be and is hereby declared
a public State road, and shall be opened and kept in repair in the same manner as
other public roads are.
Power to call assistance.
Sec. 3. The said commissioners or a majority of them shall be authorized by this act to call
to their assistance a surveyor, and such other help as may be necessary for the location
of the same; and the county commissioners court of each county through which the same may pass, shall allow the said commissioners
and such other hands as they may employ to assist them, a sum not exceeding one dollar
and fifty cents for every day necessarily employed in locating said road, to be paid
out of the county treasury of each county according to the number of days said commissioners
are employed in each county through which the same may pass, provided however, should there be a State road located from Canton in Fulton county, to Peoria, before the road authorized in this act is located, then in that case the said commissioners
are not authorized to locate the road named in this act, further than such point of
intersection.2
Approved, 4th February 1837.
1On December 31, 1836, Mark Aldrich introduced HB 53 in the Illinois House of Representatives. On January 30, 1837, the House amended and passed the bill. On February 4, 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 their First Session, (Vandalia, IL: William Walters, 1836), 96, 152, 227, 234, 313, 421, 446, 450, 480.
; Journal of the Senate of the General Assembly of the State of Illinois at their First
Session, (Vandalia, IL: William Walters, 1836), 330, 335.
2The General Assembly passed an act two years later ordering the commissioners to begin locating the road ordered by
this bill and that whatever portions already existed between Peoria, Warsaw, and Carthage, be designated as a state road.
Printed Document, 2 page(s), Laws of the State of Illinois, Passed by the Tenth General Assembly (Vandalia, IL: William Walters, 1837), 249-50, GA Session: 10-1