Papers Of Abraham Lincoln

In force 20th July, 1837.

AN ACT to re-locate a part of a State Road in Edgar County.
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Commissioners appointed

Sec.[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That Henry Beatty, Philip B. Smith, and William Stephens, of the county of Edgar, are hereby appointed commissioners to relocate a part of the state road leading from Grandview, in Edgar county, to Livingston, in Clark county.

Time and place of meeting.

To take oath

State road.

Sec. 2. Said commissioners, or a majority of them, shall meet at the house of Elijah Wells, in said county, on the first Monday in September next, or within thirty days thereafter, and after being duly sworn by some justice of the peace of said county to faithfully and impartially relocate said road, shall commence at or near the crossing of the creek west of said Wells farm, and re-locate said road along the margin of the creek, upon the most suitable ground, so as to intersect said road again at the most suitable place about a quarter of a mile south of said Wells’ farm, and when the said road shall have been thus re-located it shall be deemed a public state road and shall be kept in repair as such.

Compensation

Sec. 3. Said commissioners shall be entitled to one dollar per day, each, for their services, to be paid out of the county treasury.

approved, 20th July, 1837.

1On July 12, 1837, Gideon Minor in the House of Representatives presented the petition of citizens of Edgar County, requesting a change in a state road running through the county. The House referred the petition to a select committee. On response to this petition, Minor from the aforesaid select committee reported a bill in the House on July 13. The House passed the bill on July 14. The Senate concurred on July 18. 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),22-23, 28, 64, 115, 125, 137; 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), 54, 75, 84, 108-109.