Sec. 1st Be it Enacted by the People of the State of Illinois Represented in the general Assembly.
That Hugh L. White, John R. Crandall and Moses Young be and they are hereby appointed commissioners to review and relocate so much of the State Road heading from Wesley City in Tazewell County to Pekin and from thence to Springfield in Sangamon County: as his between the north line of the Town of Pekin and Crane Creek.
Sec 2d the said Commissioners or a majority of them shall meet at the Town of Pekin on or before the first day Monday of August next or within Sixty days thereafter and after being duly swon by some Justice of the peace of said County of Tazewell well and truly to Perform the duties required of them by this act, according to the best of their skill and abilities: They shall proceed to review survey and Locate said Road agreeably to the first section of this act Locating said Road on the nearest and most Practicable Route.
Sec 3d all of that part of the road aforesaid Road between the north line of the Town of Pekin and Crane Creek where the Road hereby authorized shall not Run thereon or shall vary from the present Road the same shall be annulled and vacated.
Sec 4th The said Commissioners shall make out a statement of the length of time Necessarily Employed by them and also their necessary hands in locating said Road and Return the same to the County Commissioners Court of Tazewell County and said Court is hereby authorised and Required To make said Commissioners and their necessary hands a Reasonable Compensation per day out of the County Treasury for their services Rendered under This act.
Sec 5th whenever the said Road shall be laid out and located as aforesaid a survey and plat of said
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road Shall be filed in the office of the Clerk of the County Commissioners Court, whose duty it shall be to cause the same to be Recorded in the Records of said Court. Said Road shall be opened four Poles wide and Kept in Repair as other State Roads are.
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A Bill For an act to provide ^for the^ relocation of ^a^ State Road Therein Named.
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A Bill For an act to Change a State Road Therein named

Handwritten Document, 2 page(s), Folder 254, HB 310, GA Session 11-1, Illinois State Archives (Springfield)