In force, Feb.[February] 12, 1839.
AN ACT to authorize the County Commissioners of Bond county to loan certain funds therein named.
1Bond county may loan its share of appropriation.
May expend interest.
Sec.[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That the county commissioners of Bond county may, and they are hereby authorized to continue to loan the distributive share of
the two hundred thousand dollars to which said county is entitled by virtue of an act, entitled “An act to establish and maintain a general system of internal improvement,” approved twenty-seventh
February, 1837, at such rates of interest as said commissioners may agree upon, and expend the interest only for the object for which said appropriation was made,
until said commissioners find it expedient to expend the principal also.2
Sec. 2. This act to take effect and be in force from and after its passage.
Approved, February 12, 1839.
1In response to a petition from the citizens of Bond County, Josiah Fisk introduced HB 171 to the House of Representatives on January 21, 1839. The House passed the bill on January 23. The Senate passed the bill on February 7. The Council of Revision approved the bill on February 12 and the act became law.
Illinois House Journal. 1838. 11th G.A., 1st sess., 246, 266, 268, 368, 385, 392; Illinois Senate Journal. 1838. 11th G.A., 1st sess., 217, 281-282, 294, 313.
2Section eighteen, sub-section fifteen, of the internal improvement act appropriated $200,000 to counties through which no railroad or canal was provided
at the expense of the State. This money was to be distributed proportionally based on the most recent census.
The money was to be used to improve roads, build bridges, and construct other necessary
public works. Bond County was not specifically referenced, but in December 1838, the fund commissioners reported
that Bond had received $8,600 of the $145,510 paid to counties. There appears to be
some discrepancy on the amount distributed. Krenkel and the Sangamo Journal cite the total as $144,700, but a tabulation of the figures printed in the Sangamo
Journal results in $145,510.
John H. Krenkel, Illinois Internal Improvements 1818-1848 (Cedar Rapids, IA: Torch, 1958), 83-84; Sangamo Journal 12 January 1839, 2:1.
Printed Document, 1 page(s), Laws of the State of Illinois, Passed by the Eleventh General Assembly (Vandalia, IL: William Walters, 1839), 76, GA Session: 11-1,