The undersigned Citizens of Pike County in said State would represent to your Honl Bodies, That on the 3d day of March [1837?], an act was passed “to incorporate the New Canton and Piketon Rail Road Company” and whereas by the 11th Section of Said act the Said Rail Road Company are to commence the Same within Two years from the first day of August 1837, and
complete the ^same^ in Ten years or the Said act should be null & void a[n]d whereas the Same requires further time for commencing & completing the Same,
Your Petitiones ask that the Said act be so amended & altered that further time be allowed for commencing
& completing the Same, with the power of making the ^Same^ a Turn-pike Road if ^said company should deem it advisable^ with all necessary Powers &c[et cetera]
as in duty bound will ever pray. January 12th 1839
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| Austin Barber | Daniel B. Bush |
| Wm. H. Collins | Wm Watson |
| Martin Edwards | |
| Micle Mcguire | Dorus Bates |
| James Crain | Joseph B. V. Butler |
| Henry Miller | Robert Davis |
| V. T. Mills | Rees P. White |
| Thomas [Kincaid?] | Benj F. [Westlake?] |
| Stephen St John | |
| Edward Kean | Peter Scholl |
| Daniel. T. Butler | |
| Stephen Pettis | J D Morrison |
| Ira Shelly | |
| Solon Farrington JR | Joseph J. Edwards |
| Wm H. Shipman | Jones Clark |
| Jonathan Piper | Asa Lovett |
| Moses Riggs | |
| Henry T. Mudd | |
| [L. S.?] Love |
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petition of Sundry Citizens of Pike County praying for an act to authorise the New Canton & piket^on^ railroad Co. to construct a Turnpike in Lieu of a railroad
Handwritten Document Signed, 4 page(s), Folder 458, SB 154, GA Session 11-1, Illinois State Archives (Springfield, IL) ,