Papers Of Abraham Lincoln

In force, Feb.[February] 16, 1839.

AN ACT to authorize a change in a certain State road therein named.
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County com’rs[commissioners] may appoint three com’rs to locate road.

Sec.[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That the county commissioners’ court of Edward’s county be, and they are hereby, authorized to appoint three commissioners, whose duty it shall be to review and relocate so much of the State road leading from Mount Carmel to Maysville as lies between the west line of section twenty-two, township one north, range fourteen west, and the place where said road intersects the State road leading from Albion to Maysville.

Time & place of meeting.

Plat to be recorded.

Sec. 2. Said commissioners shall meet on a day by them to be fixed, and after being duly sworn, before some justice of the peace, faithfully to discharge their duty, shall proceed to make such review and relocation, and shall return a plat thereof to the county commissioners’ court of said county; which shall be filed and recorded therein; and after said return, that part of said road as now laid out between said points shall be vacated; and the road so located by said commissioners shall be opened, and kept in repair, as other State roads are required to be.

Compensation.

Sec. 3. The county commissioners’ court of said county, shall allow a reasonable compensation, to be paid out of the county treasury, as they may deem reasonable for their services.

Approved, February 16, 1839.

1On February 1, 1839, Senator Henry J. Mills introduced SB 168 in the Senate. On February 4, the Senate passed the bill. On February 13, the House of Representatives passed the bill. On Februray 16, the Council of Revision approved the bill.
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, 390, 414; 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), 258, 272, 322, 338, 349.