Papers Of Abraham Lincoln

In force, Mar.[March] 1, 1839.

AN ACT to relocate part of a State road from Quincy to Macomb.
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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 B. Whitaker, Sevier Tadlock, andS. B. Garnett , of the county of Hancock, are hereby appointed commissioners to relocate a part of the State road leading from Quincy, in Adams county, to Macomb, in McDonough county.

Time and place of meeting.

Sec. 2. Said commissioners, or a majority of them, shall meet in the town ofPlymouth , in Hancock county, on or be-

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fore the first day of May next, or within three months thereafter, and, after being duly sworn by some justice of the peace of said county to faithfully and impartially relocate said road, shall commence at or near the town of Plymouth, in Hancock county, and relocate said road to the south line of said county upon the most suitable ground, so as to intersect said road again where said road crosses the line between Hancock and Adams counties; and when the said road shall have been thus relocated, in shall be deemed a public State road, and shall be kept in repair as such.

Compensation.

Sec. 3. Said commissioners shall receive for their services a reasonable compensation, to be paid out of the county treasury of Hancock county, by order of said county court. So much of said road as said commissioners shall deem expedient to change is hereby vacated.

Approved, March 1, 1839.

1On February 2, 1839, Mark Aldrich introduced HB 248 in the House of Representatives. On February 13, the House passed the bill. On February 28, the Senate passed the bill. On March 1, 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), 326, 345, 392-93, 562, 568, 574-75; 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), 331-32, 426, 459, 475.