Papers Of Abraham Lincoln

In force, Feb.[February] 23, 1839.

AN ACT to locate a State road from Monmouth, in Warren county, to Illinois City, in Rock Island county.
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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, That Gilbert Turnbull of Warren county, J. H. Eley of Rock Island county, and William P. Hull of Mercer county, be, and they are hereby, appointed commissioners to view, locate, and mark, a road commencing at Monmouth, in Warren county; thence to Rockwell’s mills, in said county; thence to McBride’s mills, on Pope’s river; and thence, via Millersburg, in Mercer county, to Illinois City, in Rock Island county.

Time and place of meeting.

To be sworn.

Sec. 2. The commissioners aforesaid, or a majority of them, shall meet at the town of Millersburg, in Mercer county, on the first Monday in May, 1839, or within four months thereafter, and, before entering on the duties of their appointment, shall take an oath before some justice of the peace faithfully and impartially to locate said road, keeping in view the shortness of the route and the eligibility of the ground, so as to make the same a permanent road, distinctly marking the same.

Map and field-notes to be filed.

Sec. 3. The said commissioners, so soon as they shall have completed the location of said road, shall make out a map; which, together with the field-notes of the survey, shall be filed with the clerks of the county commissioners’ courts through which the same shall pass.

Pay of com’rs.

Sec. 4. Said road, when laid out as aforesaid, shall be deemed a public highway, and shall be opened and kept in repair as such. And the county commissioners’ courts of the counties of Mercer, Warren, and Rock Island, shall allow to the commissioners engaged in laying out said road two dollars per day, each, for the time necessarily engaged in laying out and making returns of the same, according to the length of the road in each county, together with a reasonable allowance to the surveyor and other hands necessarily engaged in laying out said road.

Approved, February 23, 1839.

1On January 23, 1839, Senator Joseph Borough introduced SB 125 in the Senate. On January 31, the Senate passed the bill. On February 4, the House of Representatives referred the bill to a select committee. On February 6, the select committee reported the bill with amendments, and the House approved the amended version of the bill. On February 13, the House passed the bill. On February 19, the Senate concurred in the House amendments. On February 23, 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), 318, 342, 354,-355, 390-391, 488; 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), 210, 226, 254, 327, 354, 393, 406.