In force, Feb.[February] 16, 1839.
AN ACT to locate a State road from Naperville, in Cook county, to Indian creek, in McHenry county.
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Com’rs [Commissioners] to locate road.
Sec.[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That Richard M. Sweet, Frederick T. Minor, and Noah Stephens, of Cook county, be, and they are hereby, appointed commissioners to view, mark, and locate, a State road from Naperville, in Cook county, via Babcock’s Grove, Meachum’s Grove, Elk Grove, to Indian creek, in McHenry county.
Time & place of meeting.
Sec. 2. The commissioners aforesaid, or a majority of them, shall meet at Naperville on the first day of May, or within three months thereafter, and, having been sworn by a justice of the peace, faithfully 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 eligibility of the ground, so as to make the same a permanent road.
Map to be lodged with cl’k[clerk] and recorded.
Sec. 3. The said commissioners, as soon as they have completed said work, shall make out a map of said road, giving the courses and distances, to be lodged with the clerk of the county commissioners’ court through which the said road may pass; which shall be recorded at length in the books of said court.
Pay of com’rs.
Sec. 4. The county commissioners’ court of said counties through which the 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.
Approved, February 16, 1839.
1Gholson Kercheval introduced HB 186 to the House of Representatives on January 23, 1839. The House passed the bill on February 5. The Senate passed the bill on February 13. The Council of Revision approved the bill on February 16 and the act became law.
Journal of the House of Representatives (Vandalia, IL: William Walters, 1838), 271, 276, 285, 350, 398, 414, 425; Journal of the Senate (Vandalia, IL: William Walters, 1838), 285, 328, 337.

Printed Document, 1 page(s), Laws of the State of Illinois, Passed by the Eleventh General Assembly (Vandalia, IL: William Walters, 1839), 125, GA Session: 11-1,