Papers Of Abraham Lincoln

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

AN ACT to provide for the relocation of a State road therein named.
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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 Hugh L. White, John R. Crandell, and Moses Young, be, and they are hereby, appointed commissioners to review and relocate so much of the State road leading from Wesley City, in Tazewell county, to Pekin, and from thence to Springfield, in Sangamon county, as lies between the north line of the town of Pekin and Crane creek.

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Time & place of meeting.

Sec. 2. The said commissioners, or a majority of them, shall meet at the town of Pekin, on or before the first Monday in August next, or within sixty days thereafter; and, after being duly sworn, 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.

Road vacated.

Sec. 3. All that part of the 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.

Statement of time employed.

Compensation.

Sec. 4. 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 authorized and required to make said commissioners and their necessary hands a reasonable compensation per day, out the county treasury, for their services rendered under this act.

Survey & plat to be filed.

Sec. 5. Whenever the said road shall be laid out and located as aforesaid, a survey and plat of said 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.

Approved, March 2, 1839.

1On February 16, 1839, Alden Hull introduced HB 310 in the House. On February 23, the House passed the bill without amendment, and referred it to the Senate. On March 1, the Senate too passed the bill without amendment. On March 2, theCouncil of Revision approved the bill, and the act became law.
Journal of the House of Representatives, at the First Session of the Tenth General Assembly, of the State of Illinois (Vandalia, IL: William Waters, 1836), 419, 435, 492, 580, 598, 603; Journal of the Senate, at the First Session of the Tenth General Assembly, of the State of Illinois (Vandalia, IL: William Waters, 1836), 407, 479, 502.