Sec[Section] 1 Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois, Represented in the General Assembly, That Hugh Ferguson, George A. Charles[,] and John Coleman, be, and they are hereby appointed Commissioners to review, mark[,] and relocate that part of the State road leading from Knoxville in Knox county, via Charleston to Peoria in Peoria county, commencing at the east end of main street in the town of Knoxville, running thence due east to the township line between Ranges two and three east;
thence north on said line to the centre of section thirty in township eleven north of Range three east and from thence due
east till it shall intersect the original survey of said road.
Sec 2 Said Commissioners shall meet in Knoxville on or before the first day of June next, or within six months thereafter, and after
being duly sworn before some Justice of the Peace, impartially to view and relocate
the same, shall within fifteen days after the relocation of said road, cause a true
survey and map of the same to be lodged with the Clerk of the County Commissioners Court of Knox county. Said road when relocated shall be deemed a public highway and opened and kept in
repair as other State roads are.
Sec 3. The County Commissioners Court shall allow the said Commissioners a reasonable Compensation for their services
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A Bill
For an act to relocate part of a State road therein named
For an act to relocate part of a State road therein named
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Handwritten Document, 2 page(s), Folder 21, HB 22, GA Session 11-S, Illinois State Archives (Springfield, IL) ,