Papers Of Abraham Lincoln

In force, Feb.[February] 28, 1839.

AN ACT to relocate part of the State road from Mount Vernon to Fairfield.
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Com’rs[Commissioners] to relocate road.

Sec. [Section]1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That James Kass, John Johnson, and Edward H. Ridgway, of Jefferson county, be, and they are hereby, appointed commissioners to review and relocate so much of the State road leading from Mount Vernon to Fairfield as lies between Mount Vernon and the East fork of Muddy.

Sec.[Section] 2. The said commissioners, or a majority of them, after being sworn by some justice of the peace of Jefferson county faithfully and impartially to make said review and relocation, shall proceed, previously to the first day of June next, to perform the duties herein assigned them; and, in making said relocation, it shall be made as near as can be in a straight line with the street at which said road now leaves Mount Vernon; but may, if they should deem it expedient, make said relocation so that it shall cross the said creek at the bridge at present erected across said creek; and said road so relocated shall be opened and kept in repair as other State roads are.

Pay of com’rs.

Sec. 3. The county commissioners of said county shall, at their next term after the relocation of said road, make such compensation to said reviewers as may seem to them just and equitable.

Approved, February 28, 1839.

1On January 26, 1839, in the House of Representatives, Harvey T. Pace presented a petition from the citizens of Jefferson County for the relocation of part of a state road from Mount Vernon to Fairfield. On Pace’s motion the House referred the petition to a select committee. On February 2, Pace introduced HB 250 in the House. On February 13, the House passed the bill. On February 25, the Senate passed the bill. On February 28, 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), 286, 328, 345, 392-93, 518, 554, 566; 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, 414, 449.