Papers Of Abraham Lincoln

In force, Feb.[February] 1, 1840.

AN ACT to change part of a State road from Naperville, in Du Page county, to Indian Creek, in McHenry county.
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Com’rs[Commissioners] to relocate road

Sec.[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That Stephen J. Scott, Nathan Allen Jr., Ethan Grisworld, be, and they are hereby, appointed commissioners to view and relocate a certain State road from Naperville, heretofore in Cook county, now in Du Page county, to Indian Creek, in McHenry county, from the twenty-nine mile stake on the line of said road to Naperville.

Map of road

Proviso

Sec. 2. The said commissioners, as soon as they shall have completed said work, shall make out a map of that part of the said road so to be relocated, giving the course and distances to be lodged with the clerk of the county commissioners’ court for the county of DuPage, which shall be recorded at length in the books of said court: Provided, however, That those persons interested in the relocating of the above road, shall defray all the expenses thereof.

Com’rs to be sworn

Sec. 3. The said commissioners shall, before they proceed to relocate said road, be sworn before some justice of the peace faithfully to perform their duties; and so much of said road as shall be changed, shall be vacated.

Approved, February 1, 1840.

1Joseph Naper presented a petition from citizens of Du Page County to the House of Representatives on December 17, 1839, requesting a change in a state road. On December 21, Naper presented HB 49. The House passed the bill on January 2, 1840. The Senate passed the bill on January 29. The Council of Revision approved the bill on February 1 and the act became law.
Journal of the House of Representatives (Vandalia, IL: William Walters, 1840), 44, 71, 88, 118, 298, 309, 328; Journal of the Senate (Vandalia, IL: William Walters, 1840), 84, 184, 208.