Papers Of Abraham Lincoln

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

AN ACT to locate a State road from Nashville to Belleville.
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Com’rs[Commissioners] to locate road.

Sec.[Section] 1. Be in enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That William B. Davis and Edward G. McClure, of St. Clair county, andJoseph Kenyon, jr. , of Washington county, be, and they are hereby, appointed commissioners to view, mark, and locate a State road from Nashville, in Washington county, by the town of Jefferson, on the Kaskaskia river, in St. Clair county; thence to intersect the road leading from Belleville to Athens at the south end of Presley Walker’s lane; to be located on the nearest and best ground.

Time and place of meeting.

Sec. 2. The commissioners, or a majority of them, shall meet at the said town of Jefferson, on the first Monday of Aprill next, or as soon thereafter as practicable, and, after being duly sworn, shall proceed to perform the duties required of them by this act, avoiding, as much as possible, the injury of private property.

Report to be preserved.

Sec. 3. The said commissioners shall, as soon as convenient, cause to be filed, with the clerk of the county commissioners’ court of each county, a report of the location of said road, naming the distance, as near as may be, of said road in each county; which report shall be preserved, and form a part of the records of said courts. Said road, when located, shall be opened and kept in repair as other State roads are.

Compensation.

Sec. 4. The county commissioners’ court of each county shall allow the commissioners such compensation as they may deem reasonable and just, to be paid according to the distance of said road in each county.

Approved, March 2, 1839.

1On February 19, 1839, Joseph Huey introduced HB 332 in the House. On February 26, 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 1, the House agreed with the Senate amendments. 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), 439, 480, 524, 578, 593, 602; Journal of the Senate, at the First Session of the Tenth General Assembly, of the State of Illinois (Vandalia, IL: William Waters, 1836), 437-38, 482, 496.