In force, Feb.[February] 19, 1839.
AN ACT authorizing the building of certain bridges, and changing certain appropriations.
1Authority of com’rs[commissioners] of Vermilion county
Bridge across Big Vermilion.
One across Little Vermilion.
One across N.[North] fork Big Vermilion.
Sec.[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That the county commissioners of Vermilion county are hereby authorized and required to appropriate, on or before the first Monday
in June, 1839, all the means now in their hands, or which may hereafter come into
their hands, as appropriations, to build a bridge across the Big Vermilion river, together with all other means, in their hands at that time, over and above a sufficiency
to pay the current expenses of the county, in the erection of three bridges; one across the Little Vermilion river; one across the North Fork of the Big Vermilion river, either at Denmark, or at the place where the State road from Vincennes to Chicago
crosses said North Fork; and one on the Middle Fork of the Big Vermilion river.
Proceeds of land, how applied.
Appropriation to Iroquois applied to Champaign county.
Sec. 2. That the proceeds of one hundred acres of the Vermilion Saline lands, appropriated to the county of Vermilion by an act of the General Assembly, approved 22d of July, 1837, be, and the same is hereby, appropriated to the county
of Champaign, to be expended, by the county commissioners of Champaign county, in building a bridge across the Sangamon river; and the proceeds of one hundred acres of the same land, appropriated to Iroquois county, by the act above referred to, be, and the same is hereby, appropriated to said county
of Champaign, to be expended, under the direction of the county commissioners of said county, in the manner above specified.
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Acts repealed.
Sec. 3. All acts and parts of acts coming in collision with the provisions of this act be,
and the same is hereby, repealed.
Sec. 4. This act to take effect and be in force from and after its passage.
Approved, February 19, 1839.
1On January 5, 1839, Senator William Fithian introduced SB 63 in the Senate. On January 17, the Senate passed the bill. On February 5, the House of Representatives passed the bill. On February 20, 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, 350, 390, 428; 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), 137, 157-158, 183-184, 322, 347, 370-371.
Printed Document, 2 page(s), Laws of the State of Illinois, Passed by the Eleventh General Assembly (Vandalia, IL: William Walters, 1839), 137-38, GA Session: 11-1,