Papers Of Abraham Lincoln

In force Feb.[February] 1. 1840.

AN ACT to relocate a certain State road in Pike county.
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Commissioners to relocate road

Sec.[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That William Blair, James Gates, and John Gaston, of Pike county, be, and they are hereby appointed commissioners to review and relocate so much of the State road, leading from Griggsville in Pike

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county, to Kinderhook, as is situated between New Philadelphia and Kinderhook.

Time & place of meeting

Sec. 2. Said commissioners, or a majority of them, shall meet at Worcester, on the first Monday in April next, or within sixty days thereafter, and after being duly sworn by some justice of the peace to faithfully discharge their duties agreeably to the provisions of this act, shall proceed to review and locate that part of said road, situated as aforesaid.

Report in writing

Sec. 3. The said commissioners shall, within thirty days after having relocated said road, make report in writing, and file a copy of the same, in the office of the clerk of the county commissioners’ court in Pike county.

Pay of com’rs[commissioners]

Sec.[Section] 4. When said road is relocated, it shall be opened and kept in repair. The county commissioners of Pike county shall allow said commissioners, and others employed in relocating said road, such a compensation as they may deem just and equitable.

Approved, Feb. 1, 1840.

1On December 21, 1839, Senator William Ross introduced SB 24 in the Senate, and the Senate referred the bill to the Committee on Public Roads. On December 24, the Committee on Public Roads reported that the law passed last session regarding the relocation and altering of state roads had not been observed, and therefore the committee wished to be discharged from the consideration of such bills. The Senate then laid the bill on the table. On January 23, 1840, the Senate passed the bill. On January 30, the House of Representatives amended and passed the bill. On February 1, the Senate concurred in the House’s amended version of the bill, and 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 Called Session, Begun and Held at Springfield, December 9, 1839 (Springfield, IL: William Walters, 1839), 237, 251, 297, 319; Journal of the Senate of the Eleventh General Assembly of the State of Illinois, at Their Called Session, Begun and Held in Springfield, December 9, 1839 (Springfield, IL: William Walters, 1839), 40, 55, 160, 169, 219, 231, 234.