Papers Of Abraham Lincoln

In force, Feb.[February] 22, 1839.

AN ACT to change a part of a State road therein named.
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Com’rs [Commissioners] appointed to relocate road.

Sec.[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That Harry Boardmen, John Thompson, and Pomeroy Goodrich, be, and they are hereby, appointed commissioners to relocate so much of the State road leading from the Indiana line, northwest, to the State line, as lies between Naperville and Warrenville.

Time and place of meeting.

Sec. 2. Said commissioners, or a majority of them, shall meet at Naperville, so soon as may be convenient, and, after being duly sworn by some justice of the peace, shall proceed to relocate said road, and, when completed, shall make a report to the county commissioners’ court of Cook county; and said court shall cause said road to be opened and kept in repair as other State roads are; and so much of said road as is changed is hereby vacated.

Approved, February 22, 1839.

1On January 9, 1839, Representative Newton Cloud presented a petition of citizens of Morgan County to the House of Representatives, and the House referred the petition to a select committee. On January 9, Cloud of the select committee introduced HB 116 in the House. On January 18, the House passed the bill. On February 19, the Senate passed the bill. On February 22, 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), 190-191, 214, 226, 236, 293, 372, 453, 480, 485;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), 308, 325, 353, 387-388.