In force, Feb.[February] 21, 1839.
Com’rs[Commissioners] to relocate road.
Route.
Sec.[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That the county commissioners’ court of the county of Wabash are hereby authorized and empowered to alter, relocate, and establish, so much of
the State road from Mount Carmel to Greysville2 as runs near the farm of George Glick, in said county, so that the same may run by the dwelling house of said Glick; and thence, onward, to the intersection of the present State road, on such ground
as may be selected as best suited to the public convenience, whenever said court may deem it expedient so to do.
Road from Mt. Carmel to Lawrenceville.
Sec. 2. That the public road now laid out from Mount Carmel, by way of Danforth’s corner, on Barney’s prairie, Wabash county, William Clark’s, Miller’s, &c.[etc.], in Lawrence county, to Lawrenceville, be, and the same is hereby, declared a State road, to be opened and kept in repair
as all other State roads.
Mt. Carmel to Maysville.
Sec. 3. That so much of the State road from Mount Carmel to Maysville as lies betwen Mount Carmel and Centreville, in Wabash county, laid out under the authority of an act, entitled “An act to locate a State road
between Mount Carmel, in Wabash county, to Maysville, in Clay county,” approved January 9, 1836, be, and the same is hereby, vacated; and that the road
from Mount Carmel to Centreville, by the way of the farm of Daniel Greathouse, heretofore laid out as a county road, be, and the same is hereby, declared to be
a State road, to be opened and kept in repair as other State roads.
Approved, February 21, 1839.
1On January 19, 1839, the House of Representatives referred a petition from citizens of Wabash County to a select committee. On January 23, Representative Edward Smith of the select committee introduced the bill in the House of Representatives. On February
5, the House passed the bill. On February 13, the Senate referred the bill to a select committee. On February 14, the Senate passed the bill
with an amendment. On February 19, the House concurred in the Senate’s amendment of
the bill. On February 21, 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 First Session, Begun and Held in the Town of Vandalia, December
3 1838 (Vandalia, IL: William Walters, 1838), 265, 274, 285, 350, 403, 471, 475;Journal of the Senate of the Eleventh General Assembly of the State of Illinois, at
Their First Session, Begun and Held in the Town of Vandalia, December 3, 1838 (Vandalia, IL: William Walters, 1838), 327, 33, 366, 381.
Printed Document, 1 page(s), Laws of the State of Illinois, Passed by the Eleventh General Assembly (Vandalia, IL: William Walters, 1839), 147, GA Session 11-1,