Papers Of Abraham Lincoln

In force, Mar.[March] 2, 1839.

AN ACT to establish a State road therein named.
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Com’rs[Commissioners] to locate road.

Sec.[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, ThatZalman Carter and James Gilham, of the county of Scott, and Joshua Hanks, of the county of Greene, be, and they are hereby, declared commissioners to view, mark, and locate a State road beginning at the town of Winchester, in Scott county; thence, on the most eligible and direct route, to the town of Wilmington, in Greene county.

Time and place of meeting.

Sec. 2. Said commissioners, or a majority of them, shall meet at the town of Winchester, on the first Monday in April next, or as soon thereafter as practicable, and, after being duly sworn, shall proceed to perform the duties required of them by this act, avoiding, as much as the public good will permit, the injury of private property.

Report to be recorded.

Sec. 3. Said commissioners shall, within twenty days after having located said road, make a report, in writing, to the county commissioners’ courts of Greene and Scott counties. Said report shall form a part of the records of said

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courts; and said road, thus laid out, shall be considered a public highway of this State; and the county commissioners’ courts of Greene and Scott counties shall cause the same to be opened and kept in repair as other State roads are required to be by law.

Pay of com’rs.

Sec. 4. The county commissioners’ courts of the counties of Greene and Scott shall allow said commissioners a reasonable compensation, to be paid out of the county treasuries of the counties through which said road may pass.

State road.

Sec. 5. The road leading from Wilmington via Joshua Hanks and Henry Robleys, and that intersects the road leading from Whitehalll to Carrollton near Allan’s mill, is hereby declared to be a State road; and the county commissioners of Greene county are required to keep said road open and in repair as other State roads of this State.

Approved, March 2, 1839.

1On January 24, 1839, Isaac P. Walker introduced this bill in the House. On February 26, the House passed the bill, and referred it to the Senate. On March 1, the Senate passed the bill. On March 2, theCouncil of Revision approved the bill, and the act became law.
Journal of the House of Representatives, at the First Session of the Eleventh General Assembly, of the State of Illinois (Vandalia, IL: William Waters, 1838), 276, 431, 458, 516, 579, 593, 602; Journal of the Senate, at the First Session of the Eleventh General Assembly, of the State of Illinois (Vandalia, IL: William Waters, 1838), 418, 477, 496.