Sec.[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois, represented in the General assembly, That the sum of Thirty five thousand dollars, be, and the same is hereby appropriated out of the Internal Improvement fund; to be applied and expended, under the direction of and authority of the Board of Public works; in opening and constructing a clay Turnpike road from Charleston via Marshall to Darwin in Clark county; The said road to be opened, constructed, and placed on the same footing in regard to toll gates, and tolls as the Great Western mail route between Vincennes and StLouis. Provided that the distributive share of the two hundred thousand dollars belonging to any county through which said road may pass, shall compose a part of this appropriation.
Sec. 2. The county commissioners court of Clark county shall without delay appropriate three thousand dollars to improve the state road from York via Martinsville to Charleston to be disbursed under the direction of Jonathan Medsker and Henry Harrison Jr.
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02/28/1839
Passed H. R. Feb. 28th. 1839
D. Prickett clk.[clerk] H. R.

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H. R. No 277
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Bill for An act to construct a Turnpike road from Charleston to Darwin.
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[02]/27/[1839]
Engrossed
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[03]/[01]/[1839]
to be Enrolled
clk. H. R.

Handwritten Document, 2 page(s), Folder 278, HB 335, GA Session 11-1, Illinois State Archives (Springfield, IL)