In force, Feb.[February] 1, 1840.
AN ACT to amend an act, entitled “An act concerning the road from Warsaw to Quincy,” approved February 22, 1839.
1Comr’s[Commissioners] to locate road
Sec.[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That the commissioners named in the act to which this is an amendment, or a majority of them, shall proceed to locate said road from Warsaw in Hancock county, to Quincy in Adams county, according to the provisions of the act to which this is an amendment, previous to the first day of August next.
Sec. 2. Be it further enacted, That so much of the State road from Warsaw in Hancock county, to Peoria in Peoria county, as lies between Warsaw and Carthage, in Hancock county, laid out under the authority of an act, entitled “An act to locate a State road from Warsaw in Hancock county, to Peoria in Peoria
county, approved 4th of February, 1837,” is hereby declared a State road.
Location legal
Sec. 3. And the said location and survey is hereby declared to be legal and valid in all
respects, and shall not be set aside or be held to be void and of no effect, on account
of any informality in locating said road whatever; and the road, as laid off and located
by the said commissioners, or any two of them, shall be opened, worked, and kept in
repair as the law requires.
Approved, February 1, 1840.
1Mark Aldrich introduced HB 92 to the House of Representatives on January 2, 1840. The House passed the bill on January 13. 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), 114, 127, 160, 298, 314, 328; Journal of the Senate (Vandalia, IL: William Walters, 1840), 109, 208-09.
Printed Document, 1 page(s), Laws of the State of Illinois, Passed by the Eleventh General Assembly, at their Special Session (Springfield, IL: William Walters, 1840), 100, GA Session: 11-S,