Papers Of Abraham Lincoln

In force, Feb.[February] 26, 1839.

AN ACT providing for the improvement of certain roads in Edgar county.
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Duty of commissioners of Edgar county.

Road from Paris.

Sec.[Section] 1. Be in enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That it is hereby made the duty of the county commissioners’ court of Edgar county to have one hundred dollars, out of the avails of the appropriations made to said county out of the sales of the Gallatin saline lands, approved January 16, 1836, expended on the road leading from Paris to the State line, in a direction to Terre Haute; one hundred dollars expended on the road leading fromArthur Foster’s to Grand View; and the remaining one hundred dollars, to wit, fifty dollars on the road leading from Bloomfield to the State line, in a direction to Montezuma, and fifty dollars on the road leading from Bloomfield to the State line, in a direction to Clinton, if there be a road in that direction; if not, then said fifty dollars to be expended on the Chicago road, between Paris and the county line dividing the counties of Edgar and Vermilion.

Agent to take charge of appropriations.

Sec. 2. Said county commissioners are authorized to appoint some responsible individual to take in charge each appropriation, for the purpose of economically expending the same, so soon as the same may become available.

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Compensation.

Sec. 3. The county commissioners’ court is further authorized to allow the individuals appointed to superintend the expenditures embraced in the first section of this act, a reasonable compensation for their services, out of the respective appropriations.

Sec. 4. This act to take effect (from and after its) passage.

Approved, February 26, 1839.

1On January 5, 1839, Senator Nelson W. Nunnally introduced SB 64 in the Senate. On January 17, the Senate passed the bill. On January 25, the House of Representatives referred the bill to a select committee. On January 28, the House select committee reported the bill with several amendments. On February 9, the House passed the bill as amended. On February 12, the Senate refused to agree the bill as amended by the House. On February 20, the House agreed with Representative Jessie K. Dubois that the bill be laid on the table. On February 23, the House withdrew its amendments. On February 26, 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, 282, 296, 370, 394, 463, 489, 517. 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, 308, 318-319, 389, 418, 436.