A Bill for An Act to prescribe the Mode of establishing and Changing State roads.
1Sec[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois represented in the General Assembly: That from and after the passage of this Act, when any of the Citizens of this State shall deem the establishment or relocation of any State road, to be of public utility,
they or some one of them shall give six weeks public notice, by one or more written
notices, posted in the most public places in each precinct in the County where such
road is to be located ^or relocated^, that he or they will petition the next Session of the Legislature to establish or relocate such road, In which notices, a particular description of
such road shall be set forth
Sec. 2. That before any petition for the [pur]poses aforesaid, shall be presented to the [Le]gislature, the person, or persons giving said notice, shall procure the Certificate of the
Clerk of the County Commissioners Court, of the County where said notices were given, that said notices were given according
to the provision of this Act. Which certificate shall be attached to the petition
of the citizens praying for the establishment or relocation of any ^such^ road, before it ^is^ presented to the Legislature.
Sec. 3. That after the passage of this Act, no State road shall be established, or relocated,
except upon the petition of a portion of
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the Citizens of the County in which the same is to be established or relocated, according
to the provisions of this Act.
Sec. 4. That the Clerks of the County Commissioners Courts, shall ^severally^ issue the Certificate aforesaid, upon oath being made before by any credible person, that said notices were given according to the provisions
of this Act.
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A Bill for An Act to prescribe the Mode of establishing & changing State roads.
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1Isaac P. Walker introduced HB 184 in the House of Representatives on January 23, 1839. On February 19, the House refused to engross the bill for a
third reading.
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), 271, 274, 440.
Handwritten Document, 2 page(s), Folder 142, HB 184, GA Session 11-1, Illinois State Archives (Springfield, IL)