In force, Feb.[February] 21, 1839.
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, That John Millican and David Yarnall, of Vermilion county, and Henry Sodorus, of
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Champaign county, be, and they are hereby, appointed commissioners to view, survey, mark, and locate, a State road, beginning
at or near where the county road leading from Newport, Indiana, to the Salt-works in Vermilion county, Illinois, crosses the State line; thence, the nearest and best way, to Georgetown; thence toChillicothe ; thence, with the State road passing now through Chillicothe, to or near David Yarnall’s; thence to the Three-mile Grove; thence, the nearest and best way, to intersect
the road leading from Decatur to Danville, at Henry Sodorus’, in Champaign county.
Time & place of meeting.
Sec.[Section] 2. Said commissioners shall meet at the house of Benjamin Canady, in Georgrtown, on the first Monday in July, eighteen hundred and thirth-nine, or so soon thereafter as convenient, and shall proceed to view, survey, mark, and
locate, a State road, in compliance with the first section of this act; and, to effect
that object, may call to their aid, a competent surveyor and two chainmen. Said commissioners
and surveyor shall each receive two dollars, and each chain-carrier one dollar, per
day, for every day they are necessarily employed in reviewing, surveying, marking,
and locating said road.
Width of road
Sec. 3. Said commissioners shall lay out said road four poles wide, and shall mark and designate
the course of said road in its passage through timber and prairie, in such manner
as to them may seem most advisable.
Plat to be filed.
Expenses.
Sec. 4. Said commissioners shall, within three months after the location of said road,
cause a plat of the same to be filed with the county commissioners’ court of Vermilion county, and also with the county commissioners’ court of Champaign county; which said courts shall pay all expenses incurred in viewing, surveying, marking, and locating, said
State road, paying in proportion to the amount said road may be laid out in their
respective counties: Provided, That the county commissioners of Champaign county shall not be compelled to pay any of the expenses for locating said road; but may
(pay) their proportion of the same, if they deem proper so to do.
Approved, February 21, 1839.
1On January 18, 1839, Senator Joseph Borough presented a petition from citizens of Vermilion County for the establishment of a state road, and the Senate referred the petition to a select committee. On January 19, Senator William Fithian of the select committee introduced SB 109 in the Senate. On January 21, the Senate passed the bill. On January 29, the House of Representatives referred the bill to a select committee. On February 11, the select committee reported
the bill with an amendment, and the House concurred. On February 15, the House passed
the bill. On February 19, the Senate concurred in the House amendment. On February
21, 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), 257, 307, 379, 414, 453, 471; 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), 193, 198, 339-340, 354, 381.
Printed Document, 2 page(s), Laws of the State of Illinois, Passed by the Eleventh General Assembly (Vandalia, IL: William Walters, 1839), 142-43, GA Session: 11-1,