Papers Of Abraham Lincoln

In force, 29th Jan.[January] 1840.

AN ACT to relocate parts of State roads in Fayette county.
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Comr’s[Commissioners] to relocate road

Direction of road

Sec.[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That Dudley Mabry and William Paydon, of Fayette county, are appointed commissioners to review and relocate so much of the State road, authorized by an act of the Legislature of 1838 and 1839, leading from Joseph Huey’s in Clinton county, to the Northeast corner of Fayette county, as lies between the said Dudley Mabry’s along on said road to near the hazle mound; thence, on the nearest and best ground, to the house of Isaac Workman; and thence, on the most eligible site to intersect the aforesaid State road in the post oak plats, south of Stuart’s mills, in Big Creek, in the said county of Fayette.

Time and place of meeting

To be sworn

Sec. 2. That said commissioners, or either of them, shall meet at the house of the said Dudley Mabry, whenever it shall be most convenient for them so to do, within ninety days from the passage of this act; and after being duly qualified before some person authorized to administer oaths, impartially to discharge the duties enjoined by this act, shall proceed to relocate said road, as provided for in the first section of this act.

Comrs.[Commissioners] of Fayette co. to keep road open and in repair

Pay of comr’s

Sec. 3. And it is made the duty of the county commissioners’ court of Fayette county, to cause the reviewed and relocated part of the said State road to be opened and kept in repair as other State roads are required to be; and shall also allow, out of the county treasury, a reasonable compensation per day to said commissioners, for the time actually spent in the performance of the duty required by this act.

Comr’s to relocate road S W[Southwest] of Vandalia

Direction of road

Sec. 4. That John Shirley and Andrew J. Hickerson be, and they are hereby, appointed commissioners to relocate that part of the State road leading from Vandalia to Carlyle, as lies between the said town of Vandalia and William Miles’, on the said Carlyle road, commencing at Vandalia; thence, through the inlots in the south-western corner of said town, to Jeremiah Evans’ old place; and thence, to intersect the State road leading to Carlyle, near the said William Miles’.

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Time and place of meeting

Said commissioners shall meet at the house of Aikins Evans, on some day within ninety from the passage of this act, that they may agree upon, and after being duly sworn before some person authorized to administer oaths, shall proceed to perform the duty herein required of them.

Pay of comr’s

Sec. 5. The third section of this act shall, in all respects, be applicable to the road authorized to be relocated in the foregoing section, as well as to the compensation of the commissioners appointed by said section.

Approved, January 29, 1840.

1On December 31, 1839, Representative William J. Hankins introduced HB 89 in the House of Representatives. On January 11, 1840, the House referred the bill to a select committee. On January 14, the select committee added an amendment to the bill, and the House concurred in the amendment and passed the bill. On January 27, the Senate passed the bill. On January 29, 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), 110, 133, 153, 165, 263, 269, 287; 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),114, 186.