In force, Feb.[February] 28, 1839.
County com’rs[commissioners] to locate road.
Course of road.
Sec.[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That Samuel Lippincott, Montgomery Blair, and Stephen Grey, of Pike county, be, and they are hereby, appointed commissioners to view, mark, and locate a State
road to commence at Griggsville, in said county of Pike; thence to Worcester; thence to Bartlett’s and Lippincott’s mills; thence to Kinderhook; and thence to the Mississippi river, opposite Saverton, in the State of Missouri.
Time & place of meeting.
To be sworn.
Sec. 2. The said commissioners, or a majority of them, shall meet at the town of Griggsville, in said county, on the first day of April next, or within three months thereafter, and, after having been sworn by some justice of the peace faithfully and impartially to
discharge the duites 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 a permanent road.
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Map to be lodged with clerk.
Sec. 3. The said commissioners, so soon as they shall have completed said work, shall make out a map or plat of said road, giving the courses, distances, streams, &c.[et cetera] and lodge the same in the office of clerk of the county commissioners’ court of said county.
Pay of com’rs.
Sec. 4. The county commissioners’ court of the said county shall allow the said commissioners a reasonable compensation for their services in
proportion to the length of said road and the time they shall be necessarily employed
on the same; and the said county commissioners shall cause said road to be opened
and kept in repair in the same manner with other State roads.
Approved, February 28, 1839.
1On February 4, James McWilliams introduced HB 258 in the House of Representatives. On February 13, the House passed the bill. On February 26, 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), 339, 392-93, 529, 549, 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), 331-32, 426, 447-48.
Printed Document, 2 page(s), Laws of the State of Illinois, Passed by the Eleventh General Assembly (Vandalia, IL: William Walters, 1839), 204-05, GA Session: 11-1,