In force, Feb.[February] 22, 1839.
AN ACT to change a part of the State road from Peoria to Knoxville, in Knox county, and for other purposes.
1Road vacated.
Sec.[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That so much of the State road established from Peoria to Knoxville, in Knox county, under the act of the thirty-first of January, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven,
as lies between Hugh Furgeson’s and section twenty-seven, in township eleven north, and of range one east, is hereby vacated and annulled; and the county road between those points named, as
now established and opened, shall be considered, and is hereby declared, a State road,
forming a part of said State road from Peoria to Knoxville.
Approved, February 22, 1839.
1On December 13, 1838, Senator Peter Butler introduced SB 7 in the Senate, and the Senate referred the bill to the Committee on Roads. On January 16, 1839,
the Committee on Roads recommended passage of the bill. On January 17, the Senate
passed the bill. On February 18, the House of Representatives passed the bill. On February 22, the Council of Revision approved the bill and the act became law.
Journal of the House of Representatives of the Eleventh General Assembly of the State
of Illinois, at Their First Session, Begun and Held in the Town of Vandalia, December
3 1838 (Vandalia, IL: William Walters, 1838), 233, 281, 432, 479; Journal of the Senate of the Eleventh General Assembly of the State of Illinois, at
Their First Session, Begun and Held in the Town of Vandalia, December 3, 1838 (Vandalia, IL: William Walters, 1838), 41, 176, 183-184, 347, 387.
Printed Document, 1 page(s), Laws of the State of Illinois, Passed by the Eleventh General Assembly (Vandalia, IL: William Walters, 1839), 153, GA Session: 11-1,