In force, Mar.[March] 2, 1839.
AN ACT to locate a State road from the dividing line between the counties of Vermilion and Iroquois, at the point where the Butterfield trace crosses said line.
1Com’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 James Smith, Alanson Hawkins, and John Johnson, all of the county of Iroquois, be, and they are hereby, appointed commissioners to view, survey, mark, and locate
a State road commencing at and running from the dividing line between the counties
of Vermilion and Iroquois, at the point where the Butterfield trace crosses said line, to Ash Grove, on the West fork of Sugar creek; thence to Jefferson point, on Spring creek; thence to Plato; thence, down the Iroquois river, to the Kankakee river; from thence, in the most suitable and eligible direction, until it intersects a
State road running from the mouth of the Iroquois river to Juliet, in Will county.2
Place and time of meeting.
Map deposited with county com’rs.
Sec. 2. The said commissioners, or a majority of them, shall meeting at the house of Levi Thompson, Esq.[Esquire], in Iroquois county, on or before the second Monday in August next, or within one month thereafter, who,
after being duly sworn before some justice of the peace in said county faithfully to observe the provisions of this act, shall proceed to view and locate
said road; and the said commissioners, on or before the first day of October next,
shall make, or cause to be made, a true survey and map of said road, signed by them,
and deposited with the county commissioners in the several counties through which said
road shall pass; which road, when laid out as aforesaid, shall be deemed and considered
a public State road; and the county commissioners’ courts of the counties through
which said road is so located and laid out shall appoint supervisors, who shall cause
the same to be opened and worked and kept in repair as other public works (roads)
are.
Sec. 3. The commissioners appointed in the first section of this act shall receive for
their services a just compensation, not exceeding two dollars per day, out of the
funds of each county, respectively, through which the said road shall thus be located:
Provided the county of Will shall not be compelled to pay any part of the expense of said road, without the county
commissioners of Will county shall consent to pay the same.
Approved, March 2, 1839.
1On February 6, 1839, Louis Roberts introduced HB 274 in the House of Representatives. The House amended the bill by adding a proviso to the last section. On February
13, the House passed the bill. On February 26, Senate referred the bill to a select committee comprised of representatives Ebenezer Peck, William Stadden and William Fithian. On February 27, the committee reported back the bill with an amendment to change
language contained in Section One. The Senate passed the bill as amended. On March
1, the House concurred with the Senate amendment. On March 2, 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), 354, 374, 392-93, 537, 570, 598, 602-03,
; 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, 422, 442, 474-75, 502.
Printed Document, 1 page(s), Laws of the State of Illinois, Passed by the Eleventh General Assembly (Vandalia, IL: William Walters, 1839), 254, GA Session: 11-1,