Papers Of Abraham Lincoln

In force, Mar.[March] 2, 1839.

AN ACT to establish a State road in Alexander county.
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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 Thomas Forker, Enoch Smith, and Samuel Cook be, and they are hereby, appointed commissioners to view, mark, and locate a road to commence at or near the late residence of Pitman Haws; thence, via the town of Caledonia and down the Ohio river, to Trinity.

Time and place of meeting.

Sec. 2. The said commissioners, or a majority of them, shall meet at Trinity, on the first Monday in June next, or within three months thereafter, and, after being sworn before some justice of the peace faithfully to discharge the duties conjoined upon them by this act, shall proceed to view, mark, and locate the said road upon the best and most direct route between the points named in the first section of this act.

Report.

Sec. 3. Upon such location being made, the said commissioners, of any two of them, shall make a report of the same to the county commissioners’ court of Alexander county, and the said court shall cause the said road to be opened and kept in repair; and the said road is hereby declared to be a State road.

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Pay of com’rs.

Sec. 4. The commissioners hereby appointed shall be paid, out of the county treasury of Alexander county, a fair compensation for the time they may be necessarily employed in locating said road, to be allowed by the county commissioners. This act to take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Approved, March 2, 1839.

1On February 16, 1839, James Copeland introduced HB 308 in the House of Representatives. On February 26, the House passed the bill. On March 1, the Senate passed the bill. 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), 419, 473, 524, 578, 588, 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), 437, 473, 494-95.