Papers Of Abraham Lincoln

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

AN ACT to establish a State road from Salem to Pinckneyville.
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Com’rs[Commissioners] to locate road.

Sec.[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, ThatSamuel W. Anderson , of Washington county, Isaac B. Walker, of Perry county, and Alfred Ray, of Marion county, be, and they are hereby, appointed commissioners to view, survey, and locate a State road beginning at Salem, in Marion county, running thence, on the nearest and best ground to Pinckneyville, in Perry county, so as to intersect the road leading from Pinckneyville to Chester.

Time & place of meeting.

Sec. 2. Said commissioners, or a majority of them, shall meet at Pinckneyville aforesaid, on the first Monday in August

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next, or within six months thereafter, and, after being first duly sworn by some justice of the peace faithfully to discharge the duties required by this act, shall proceed to view, survey, and locate said road according to the provisions of the preceding section, making the best location for a permanent road.

Report to co. com’rs[county commissioners].

Sec. 3. Said commissioners shall make a report to the county commissioners’ courts of the several counties through which said road shall pass, of the part lying and being in each county; which shall be recorded, filed, and preserved.

Pay of com’rs.

Sec. 4. Said commissioners shall be allowed a reasonable compensation, to be paid out of the treasuries of the several counties, in proportion to the distance said road may run in each county, and the time engaged in the discharge of their duties.

Approved, March 2, 1839.

1On February 28, 1839, William F. Elkin introduced Miscellaneous HB 1 in the House. On that same day, 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), 561, 587, 602, 606; Journal of the Senate, at the First Session of the Tenth General Assembly, of the State of Illinois (Vandalia, IL: William Waters, 1836), 465, 491, 508-09.