Papers Of Abraham Lincoln

In force, Mar.[March] 2, 1839.

AN ACT to locate a State road from Charleston to James Keller’s, on the Springfield trace.
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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 Thomas B. Peyton, of Coles county, Andrew Love, of Macon county, and Jesse Ellis, of Shelby county, are hereby appointed commissioners to view, mark, and locate a State road from Charleston, in Coles county, to or near James Keller’s, on the Springfield trace, in Macon county, via the Dead-man’s grove, in Coles county, crossing the Kaskaskia at or near Hawkins Fuller’s.

Time and place of meeting.

To be sworn.

Transmit plat to clerks.

Sec. 2. Said commissioners, or a majority of them shall meet at H. Fuller’s, on or before the first day of September next, and, after being duly sworn to faithfully perform the duties required of them, shall proceed to view, mark, and locate said road; and, when located, they shall transmit plats thereof to the clerks of the county commissioners’ courts of the respective counties through which it passes; and, when located, it shall be, to all intents and purposes, a State road.

Pay of com’rs.

Sec. 3. The county commissioners’ courts of the counties through which the road passes shall allow said commissioners a reasonable compensation for their services, in proportion to the time employed in each county by said commissioners.

Approved, March 1, 1839.

1On February 13, 1839, Byrd Monroe introduced SB 217 in the Senate. On February 19, the Senate passed the bill. On February 27, the House of Representatives read the bill twice and referred it to a select committee comprised of Representatives James T. Cunningham, John Dawson and Jesse Wilson Gouge. On February 28, the committee reported back the bill with an amendment to which the House concurred. The House read the bill a third time and passed it. On March 1, the Senate concurred with the House amendment. On March 2, 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), 454, 544, 552, 581-82; 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), 323-24, 336, 352, 455, 477, 488, 501.