Papers Of Abraham Lincoln

In force, Feb.[February] 27, 1839.

AN ACT to establish a State road from Rushville, in Schuyler county, to Pittsfield, in Pike county.
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Com’rs[Commissioners] to locate road.

Sec.[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That Solomon Hobbs and John Deigh of Pike county, and Luke Perry of Brown county, be, and they are hereby, appointed commissioners to view and locate a State road from Rushville, in Schuyler county, via Perry, to Pittsfield, in Pike county.

Place of meeting.

Sec. 2. The said commissioners, or a majority of them, shall meet at the town of Rushville, on the first Monday in April next, or within three months thereafter, and, after being duly sworn, shall proceed to perform the duties required of them by this act, doing as little injury to private property as practicable.

Surveyor may be employed.

Sec. 3. Said commissioners are hereby authorized to employ a surveyor in Schuyler county to survey and establish said road four rods in width; and shall make report, in writing, to the county commissioners’ courts of the respective counties through which said road shall pass. Said report shall form a part of the records of said courts; and said road, thus laid out, shall be a public highway of this State.

Compensation.

Sec. 4. The county commissioners’ courts shall allow the viewers and others employed, from their respective counties, a reasonable compensation for their services, to be paid out of their county treasuries.

Approved, February 27, 1839.

1On February 6, 1839, William Ross introduced SB 189 in the Senate. On February 9, the Senate passed the bill. On February 23, the House of Representatives passed the bill. On February 27, 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), 376, 442, 493, 534; 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), 287-88, 289-90, 305, 406, 445-46, 452.