Sec.[Section] 1 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois represented in the General Assembly, That Aaron Hopkins[,] Charles Gooding[,] and John Simpson, all of Will County, be and they are hereby appointed Commissioners to review and relocate all that part
of said road as leads from Thornton to Lockport1
Sec: 2 Said Commissioners or a majority of them shall meet at Thornton at a convenient
time on or before the fourth day of July next and being duly sworn before some Justice
of the Peace of the County faithfully and impartially to discharge the duties assigned them by this act shall
proceed to review, remark[,] and relocate said road on the nearest and best ground for a permanant road having due regard to private property.
Sec: 3. They shall return a plat of said road so located to the County Commissioners Court of Will County giving the courses and distances to be recorded establishing the same eighty feet
wide and which shall be opened and kept in repair as other state roads are
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1It is likely that this legislation refers to a road leading from Thornton Township
as it was then known, to Lockport and Plainfield Townships. Thornton Township later
became Greengarden Township.
James N. Adams, comp., Illinois Place Names (Springfield: Illinois State Historical Society, 1989), 379; History of Will County,
583-84, 588.
Handwritten Document, 2 page(s), Folder 461, SB 157, GA Session 11-1, Illinois State Archives [Springfield, IL] ,