In force, Mar.[March] 2, 1839.
AN ACT extending the time to the Springfield and Alton Turnpike Road Company to complete said road.
1Five years allowed to complete road.
Sec.[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That the charter of the Springfield and Alton Turnpike Company be, and the same is hereby, extended, so as to allow said company five years, in addition to the time now provided in said charter, to complete said
road; and any number of miles of said road which may be completed within the time
aforesaid, the charter shall not be forfeited, as to that part of said road so completed,
although the whole of said road may not be finished: Provided, That the said company shall extend the said road from Springfield to Carlinville, in Macoupin county, and shall not be permitted, under this act, to extend the road so as to come in
competition with the State work from Carlinville to Alton.
2Approved, March 2, 1839.
1On February 20, 1839, Robert Smith introduced HB 364, originally titled "A Bill Providing for Revising and Reprinting the Laws of this
State," in the House. On February 27, following the addition of sundry amendment by a select committee,
as well as an additional proviso by John Calhoun, the House passed the bill, and referred it to the Senate. On the suggestion of Robert Smith, the title was changed to “An act extending the time to the Springfield and Alton Turnpike Road Company to complete said road.” On March 1, the Senate 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), 459, 530, 533, 542, 543, 580, 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), 452, 486, 496.
Printed Document, 1 page(s), Incorporation Laws of the State of Illinois, Passed by the Eleventh General Assembly (Vandalia, IL: William Walters, 1839), 162, GA Session: 11-1,