Sec.[Section] 1. Be it enacted, by the People of the State of Illinois represented in the General Assembly, That George McHenry[,]James Withrow[,] and John A. Hanna, be and they are hereby appointed Commissioners, to view and relocate so much of the State Road, leading from Stephenson to the mouth of the Pickatonika as lies between Earl P Aldrich,s and George McHenrys on said Road commencing at Earl P Aldrich,s thence to Soloman Penny,s, leaving Penny,s farm on the South, thence North of E. E. Renehaw[]s to a lane between N Withrow[]s farms, running thence with a furrow made by ploughing north of James Tabor, A W Becks and Joseph Browning intersecting the present road at or near George McHenry,s having due regard to private property
Sec. 2. The commissioners aforesaid or a majority of them, shall meet at some convenient place in the neighborhood of that part of the road proposed to be changed on the first Monday in June next or within six months thereafter and before entering upon the duties assigned them by this act, shall take an oath before some Justice of the Peace, faithfully to discharge the duties imposed by this act and shall proceed, to view, mark[,] and relocate said Road, and after they shall have completed said work they shall make out a report discribing the said road as relocated and deliver a
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copy to the County Commissioners Court of Henry County where the same shall be filed and the Court shall allow said Commissioners a reasonable compensation for their services.
Sec[Section] 3 After said commissioners shall have changed that part of said road it shall be opened and kept in repair as other state roads are.
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An act to authorise the relocation of ^part of^ the State Road leading from Stephenson to the mouth of Pickatouneka
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Handwritten Document, 4 page(s), Folder 130, HB 168, GA Session 11-1, Illinois State Archives (Springfield, IL) ,