Papers Of Abraham Lincoln

In force, Feb.[February] 26, 1839.

AN ACT to relocate part of a certain State road therein named.
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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 John McFatridge, of Johnson county, Josiah Blackman and James G. Hutchinson, of Gallatin county, are hereby appointed to review and relocate that part of the State road leading from Equality to Vienna as lies between William G. Hutchinson’s and Vienna.

Time & place of meeting.

Plat and survey to be filed with clerk

Sec. 2. Said commissioners, or a majority of them, shall meet at the house of William G. Hutchinson, on the first Monday in June next, or within six months thereafter, and, after being sworn by some justice of the peace or qualified

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officer, faithfully and impartially to perform the duites required of them by this act, shall proceed to review, survey, mark, and relocate said road, commencing at or near the house of William G. Huchinson; thence on the best route, to or near the house of Josiah Blackman; thence to or near the house of Hall Whitakers; thence to James Leslie’s; and thence, on the nearest and best route, to Vienna, in Johnson county. They shall report the same, giving a plat, distances, and courses, to the commissioners’ courts of each county through which said road shall pass.

Sec. 3. Said road shall be four poles wide, and shall be opened, worked, and kept in repair as other State roads are.

Sec. 4. Said commissioners shall be allowed the sum of two dollars per day, for the time necessarily employed in relocating said road, to be paid out of the county treasuries through which said road shall pass; and also a reasonable allowance to the surveyor and chain-carriers, or hands, that may be employed by them for laying out said road.

Trustees of Pekin may improve road.

Proviso.

Sec. 5. The said road, when so laid out, shall be opened by order of said commissioners’ court, without delay, and kept in repair: Provided, That the said road, when so laid out as aforesaid, shall in nowise be construed as to authorize the location of the old road leading from the said Hutchinson’s to the town of Vienna, unless upon the petition of a majority of the persons residing in the neighborhood of said road.

Approved, February 26, 1839.

1On January 25, 1839, Senator Worthington J. Gibbs presented the Senate with a petition of citizens of Johnson and Gallatin counties in favor of relocating a certain part of a state road within those counties. On January 25, the Senate referred the petition to a select committee. On February 14, Senator William J. Gatewood of the select committee reported Misc SB 2A favorably without amendment. On February 14, the Senate passed the bill. On February 23, the House of Representatives passed the bill. On February 26, 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), 402, 442, 493, 517; 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), 334, 406, 418-419, 436.