In force, Jan.[January] 24, 1839.
AN ACT to relocate a part of a certain State road therein named.
1Com’rs[Commissioners] appointed to review and relocate part of State road.
Sec.[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That Jesse Neice and James Edmonston be, and they are hereby, appointed to review, mark, and locate, so much of the State
road leading from Beardstown, in Cass county, to the head of the Des Moines Rapids,2 in Hancock county, as passes through the northwest quarter of section thirty, in township five north,
of range three west.
Time and place of meeting.
Plat to be filed with cl’k[clerk] of co. com’rs’ court of McDonough co. which shall be recorded.
Road vacated.
Sec. 2. The said commissioners shall meet at the house of James M’Cown, on the first Monday in May next, or within six months thereafter, and shall proceed
to review, mark and relocate so much of the aforesaid road as above, doing as little
injury to said quarter section of land as the public good will permit. A plat of said road, when reviewed, shall be made out by said commissioners, and
by them filed in the clerk’s office of the county commissioners’ court of M’Donough county, which shall be recorded in said office; which new road, when located, shall be opened
and kept in repair as other State roads, and so much of the present road as is relocated
shall be, and is hereby, vacated after said relocation: and the county commissioners’ court of said county shall allow said road commissioners a reasonable compensation for their trouble,
to be paid out of the county treasury. This act to take effect from and after its
passage.
Approved, January 24, 1839.
1In response to a petition referred to a select committee, an unknown legislator introduced
HB 32 in the House of Representatives on February 13 or 17, 1838. The House passed the bill on January 1. On January 15,
the Senate referred the bill to the Committee on Public Roads. The committee reported back with
sundry amendments on January 17, in which the Senate concurred. The Senate passed
the bill on January 21. For unknown reasons, the House Journal records that the Senate
reported the bill’s passage to the House as if they had made no amendments. On January
24, 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 (Vandalia, IL: William Walters, 1838), 91, 114, 115, 126, 153, 256, 272, 277; Journal of the Senate of the Eleventh General Assembly of the State of Illinois, at
Their First Session (Vandalia, IL: William Walters, 1838), 125, 127, 174, 180, 199.
2These rapids on the Mississippi River are located between Nauvoo, Illinois, and Keokuk, Iowa, to the south.
Printed Document, 1 page(s), Laws of the State of Illinois, Passed by the Eleventh General Assembly (Vandalia, IL: William Walters, 1839), 51,GA Session: 11-1,