Papers Of Abraham Lincoln

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

AN ACT to establish a State road in Franklin and Union counties.
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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 Duebarts Dempsey, of Franklin county, and Daniel Treat, of Union county, be, and they are hereby, appointed commissioners to review, mark, and locate a road from the town of Bainbridge to Jonesboro, on the nearest and best route, taking into consideration the general locality of the country.

Time and place of meeting.

To be sworn.

Their duties.

Sec. 2. Said commissioners shall meet at the town of Bainbridge, in Franklin county, on the third Monday in May next, or as soon thereafter as practicable; and after being first duly sworn, before some justice of the peace, faithfully to perform the duties required of them by this act, shall then proceed to review, mark, and locate said road, and shall make duplicate reports to the county commissioner’s clerks of their respective counties, and by them to be filed in their respective offices, of the principal points by which said road passes in said counties.

Road deemed a public highway.

Pay of com’rs.

Sec. 3. Said road, when so laid out, shall be a public highway, and the county commissioners’ courts of the said counties shall cause the same to be opened four poles wide, and be worked and kept in repair as other State roads. The respective county commissioners’ courts of said counties shall allow said commissioners a reasonable oompensation for their services, to be paid out of their respective county treasuries. This act to take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Approved, February 28, 1839.

1On December 14, 1838, Allen Bainbridge introduced HB 26 in the House of Representatives. On February 13, 1839, 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), 87, 116, 348, 392-93, 530, 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, 430, 447-48.