Papers Of Abraham Lincoln

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

AN ACT to relocate a part of the Vincennes and Chicago State road via Russelville, and to declare a certain road therein named a State road.
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Commissioners appointed to review and relocate part of State road.

Sec.[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, ThatJ. B. Shaw of Lawrence county, James H. Wilson and William Magil of Crawford county, be, and they are hereby, appointed commissioners to view, survey, mark, and relocate, (via Russelville,) so much of the Vincennes and Chicago State road as lies between Gibson’s ferry, at Vincennes, and John Foxe’s in Crawford county.

Time & place of meeting.

Sec. 2. Said commissioners, or a majority of them, shall meet on or before the first day of September next, and, after being duly sworn, shall commence at Gibson’s ferry, opposite Vincennes, and from that point proceed to perform the duties required of them by the provisions of the first section of this act; and shall file with the clerk of the county commissioners’ courts of Lawrence and Crawford counties a report and map of said road; which report and map shall be filed and preserved, and shall form a part of the record of said courts; and the roads, when located as above described, shall be opened four poles wide, and kept in repair as other State roads are required to be.

Report & map to be filed.

Sec. 3. The commissioners hereby appointed, the surveyor, chain-carriers, and marker, necessarily employed by them, shall each receive for their services a reasonable compensation; which shall be paid out of the county treasuries of the counties of Lawrence and Crawford equally.

Compensation.

Sec. 4. So much of the present Vincennes and Chicago State road as lies between Vincennes and John Foxe’s, in Crawford county, is hereby declared a State road; and the county commissioners of Lawrence and Crawford counties are hereby required to cause the same to be kept open and in repair as other State roads are.

Approved, February 23, 1839.

1On January 21, 1839, Senator Abner Greer presented a petition that served as the impetus of the bill, and the Senate referred the petition to a select committee. On February 1, Greer of the select committee introduced SB 165 in the Senate. On February 4, the Senate passed the bill. On February 5, the House of Represetatives referred the bill to the Committee on State Roads. On February 21, the House passed the bill. 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), 344, 349, 474, 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), 256, 272, 383, 393, 406.