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Sect[Section] 1st Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois represented in the general Assembly That H L Platt, [...?] ^Joseph^ L Shaw and Theadoras Fisher be and they are hereby appointed commissioners to locate a State road [...?] from Tremont to the town of Dillon in Tazewell County, That the said Commissioners, or any two of them shall meet at the town of Tremont, on or before the first monday in may next; and after being duly sworn before some
Justice of the Peace, shall proceed to view and locate, survey and mark out, a road,
and shall return a platt of the said road to the Clerk of the County Commissioners Court.
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All other State roads heretofore laid out between the above mentioned towns are hereby vacated
All other State roads heretofore laid out between the above mentioned towns are hereby vacated
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1On January 16, 1839, William S. Maus in the House of Representatives presented the petition of citizens of Tazewell County, requesting a state road from Tremont to Dillon. The House referred the petition to a select committee. In response to this petition,
Maus of the aforesaid select committee introduced HB 165 in the House on January 19.
On January 23, the House referred the bill to a select committee. The select committee
reported back the bill on January 25 with an amendment, in which the House concurred.
The House referred the bill and amendment to the Committee on State Roads, which did
not report the back the bill or amendment.
Journal of the House of Representatives of the Eleventh General Assembly of the State
of Illinois, at Their First Session, Begun and Held in the Town of Vandalia, December
3, 1838 (Vandalia,IL: William Walters, 1838), 217, 239, 266, 269, 279.
Handwritten Document, 2 page(s), Folder 127, HB 165, GA Session 11-1, Illinois State Archives (Springfield, IL)