Papers Of Abraham Lincoln

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

AN ACT concerning a State road in the county of Fulton.
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Location confirmed.

Sec.[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That the location of a State road from Knoxville to Jackson Grove, by Ahira Sanders’ andAbsalom Maxwell’s, in compliance with the provisions of the fifth and sixth sections of an act, entitled “An act to locate a State road from Canton to Knoxville, and for other purposes,” approved twenty-first day of July, 1837, be, and the same is hereby, confirmed, and said road is declared a State road.

Com’r[Commissioner] to locate road.

Compensation.

Sec. 2. That Levings Burnington, be, and he is hereby, appointed a commissioner to act in conjunction with the commissioners appointed by the fifth section of the act above mentioned; and said commissioners shall meet at Lewistown on the first Monday in April next, or as soon thereafter as a majority of the commissioners may agree upon, and shall proceed to view, mark, and to continue the location of the above mentioned road from Jackson Grove to Lewistown. And said commissioners shall make a report of their proceedings to the county commissioners’ court of Fulton county. Said commissioners shall receive a reasonable compensation for their services in locating said road from Jackson Grove to Lewistown, including the services of surveyor and others employed in locating the road mentioned in the first section of this act, to be paid out of the county treasury of Fulton county.2

Approved, February 27, 1839.

1On February 8, 1839, Samuel Hackelton introduced SB 197 in the Senate. On February 9, the Senate passed the bill. On February 25, the House of Representatives passed the bill. On February 27, the Council of Revision approved the bill and the act became law.
Illinois House Journal. 1838. 11th G. A., 1st sess., 376, 442, 455, 513, 537; Illinois Senate Journal. 1838. 11th G. A., 1st sess., 300, 306, 419, 436, 452.

2In 1837, the General Assembly passed an act that, among other things, appointed Ahira Saunders and Absalom Maxwell to lay out a state road from Lewistown to Knoxville. By 1841, the commissioners had completed the section of the road between Lewistown and Jackson Grove, and the General Assembly passed an act declaring it to be a state road.