In force, Feb.[February] 22, 1839.
Com’rs to locate road.
Course.
Sec.[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That James W. Singleton, senior, of Brown county, andEdward Doyle , of Schuyler county, and Hugh Kincade, of McDonough county, be, and they are hereby, appointed commissioners, to view, mark, and locate a State
road, from Mount Sterling, in Brown county, via Dunlap’s mill, on the Little Missouri; thence to the southwest corner of township number three (3) north, and range number
three, west of the fourth principal meridian; thence to Rall’s mill, on Crooked creek;
and thence to Macomb, in McDonough county.
Time and place of meeting.
Sec. 2. The commissioners aforesaid, or a majority of them, shall meet at the town of Mount Sterling, on the first Monday of April next, or within six months thereafter, and, after having
been sworn by some justice of the peace faithfully and impartially to discharge the
duties required of them by this act, shall proceed to view, mark and locate said road,
keeping in view the shortness of the route and the eligibility of the ground, so as
to make the same as convenient and permanent as practicable.
To make map
Sec. 3. The said commissioners, as soon as they shall have completed said work, shall make out a map or plat of said road, giving the courses, distances, streams,
notable places, &c.[etc];
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and shall file a copy of the same with the clerk of the county commissioners’ court in each county through which the said road may pass, which shall be recorded at length
in the books of said courts.
Pay of com’rs.
Sec. 4. The county commissioners’ courts of said counties through which said road may pass shall allow the said commissioners
a reasonable compensation for their services, in proportion to the length of said
road in the several counties through which said road may pass; and the said county commissioners shall cause said road to be opened and kept in repair in the same manner as other
State roads are required to be done.
Approved, February 22, 1839.
1On January 15, 1839, Representative Jesse M. McCutcheon presented a petition from citizens of Schuyler and McDonough counties to the House of Representatives, and the House referred the petition to a select committee. On January 21, McCutcheon
introduced HB 172 in the House. On January 23, the House passed the bill. On February 5, the Senate referred the bill to a select committee. On February 6, the select committee reported
the bill with an amendment, and the Senate concurred in the amendment. On February
12, the Senate passed the bill. On February 20, the House concurred in the Senate
amendment. On February 22, the Council of Revision approved the bill and the act became law.
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), 252, 266, 268, 393, 463, 480, 485; Journal of the Senate 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, 283, 288, 318, 387-388.
Printed Document, 2 page(s), Laws of the State of Illinois, Passed by the Eleventh General Assembly (Vandalia, IL: William Walters, 1839), 153-54, GA Session: 11-1,