Papers Of Abraham Lincoln

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

AN ACT to locate a State road in McLean and Tazewell counties.
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Com’rs[Commissioners] to locate road.

Course of road.

Sec.[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That Meredith Myers and John P. Beatty, of McLean county, and Richard N. Cullum, of Tazewell county, are hereby appointed commissioners to locate a State road, as follows, to wit: Commencing at Tremont, in Tazewell county; thence to Versailles, in McLean county; thence to intersect the Bloomington and Ottawa road at or near Josephine, in the said county of McLean.

Time & place of meeting.

Report of com’rs.

Sec. 2. Said commissioners, or a majority of them, shall meet at the town of Tremont, on the first Monday in April next, or within ninety days thereafter, and, after having been duly sworn before some justice of the peace faithfully to perform the duties required of them by this act, shall proceed to view, mark, survey, and locate said road; and, having so located the same, shall, within sixty days thereafter, make report to the county commissioners’ court of each of said counties; which report shall be entered at length upon the records of said courts: Provided, That no costs or damages shall be paid by said counties on account of the location of said road.

Width of road

Sec. 3. Said road shall be four poles wide, and shall be opened and kept in repair as other roads are.

Approved, March 2, 1839.

1On February 21, 1839, Cheney Thomas introduced HB 388 in the House. On February 26, the House passed the bill without amendment, and referred it to the Senate. On March 1, the Senate passed the bill without amendment. On March 2, the Council of Revision approved the substitute 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), 470, 505, 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, 481, 496.