In force, Feb.[February] 16, 1839.
AN ACT to locate a State road from Thornton to Lockport, Plainfield, and Blackberry creek, approved February 27, 1837.
1Com’rs[Commissioners].
Part of road relocated.
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 Lockport.2
Time & place of meeting.
To be sworn.
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 required of them by this act,
shall proceed to review, remark, and relocate, said road on the nearest and best ground
for a permanent road, having due regard to private property.
Plat of road.
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.
Approved, February 16, 1839.
1On January 28, 1839, Senator James Turney presented a petition from citizens of Will County which was referred to the Committee on Public Roads. On January 30, Joseph Borough, from the Committee on Public Roads, introduced SB 157 in the Senate. On February 13, the House of Representatives pased the bill. On February 16, 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), 341, 390, 415; 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), 233-234, 248, 265, 322, 337, 349.
2It 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.
Printed Document, 1 page(s), Laws of the State of Illinois, Passed by the Eleventh General Assembly (Vandalia, IL: William Walters, 1839), 123, GA Session: 11-1,