In force, Jan.[January] 26, 1841.
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, That Greenburg W. Moore, of the county of Hamilton, and Solomon Weeb of the county of Franklin, and Benjamin Harnick, of the county of Perry, are hereby appointed commissioners to view, mark and locate a State road, beginning
at the town of McLeansborough, in Hamilton county ; thence to the town of Benton, in Franklin county; from thence, running with the State road from Nashville to Benton, to the bridge on Big Muddy river; thence, with said State road, to the point where the county road diverges from the
same; thence, with the county road, to Gallaway’s ford, on Little Muddy; thence to George Lipe’s, in the Nine Mile prairie; thence, on the section line, the nearest and best way to Pinckneyville, in Perry county.2
Time & place of meeting.
To be sworn.
Sec. 2. Said commissioners, or any two of them, shall meet at the town of McLeansborough, on or before the first Mon-
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day in September next, and after being duly sworn, before some justice of the peace, to the faithful performance
of their duties, shall proceed to lay out said road, from point to point, upon the
nearest, best and most eligible ground, having due regard to private property.
Report of road.
Sec. 3. Said road, when so laid out, a report of which shall be filed by said commissioners with the clerks of the county commissioners’ courts of the respective counties through which said road is to run; and the same shall
be opened and kept in repair as other State roads are.
Pay of com’rs.[commissioners]
Sec. 4. Said commissioners shall be allowed a reasonable compensation for their services, not exceeding two dollars per day, at the discretion of the county commissioners’ courts, which shall be paid by said counties, in proportion to the time said commissioners
may necessarily be employed in each county in making said location.
Road declared State road.
Sec. 5. The present county road, laid out and opened from McLeansborough to Carmi, running by Westley Biggerstaff’s, is hereby declared a State road.
This act to be in force from its passage.
Approved, January 26, 1841.
1Richard G. Murphy presented a petition from the citizens of Hamilton, Franklin, and Perry counties to the House of Representatives on December 9, 1840, requesting the construction of a state road and the House referred
it to a select committee. Murphy presented HB 35 on December 15. The House passed an amendment on December 30, replacing John W. Marshall
with Greenberry W. Moore and passed the bill. The Senate passed the bill on January 19, 1841. The Council of Revision approved the bill on January 26 and the act became law.
Illinois House Journal. 1840. 12th G. A., 91, 121, 143, 158, 166, 248, 258, 266, 286; Illinois Senate Journal. 1840. 12th G. A., 127, 131, 164, 167, 180.
2The House of Representatives passed an amendment on December 30 replacing John W. Marshall with Greenberry W. Moore.
Illinois House Journal. 1840. 12th G. A., 166.
Printed Document, 2 page(s), Laws of the State of Illinois, Passed by the Twelfth General Assembly (Springfield, IL: William Walters, 1841), 220-21, GA Session 12-2,