Sec[Section] 1 Be it enacted by the people of the state of Illinois represented in the General Assembly that Stephen Mendenall of Schuyler county, William Burke and Clemmons Robbins of Adams County be and they are hereby appointed commissioners to view, mark, and locate a State Road from Columbus in Adams County to Brooklin in Schuyler County on the nearest and best route, having due regard to private property
Sec 2. The said commissioners or any two of them, shall meet at the Town of Columbus on the first Monday of April next, or as soon thereafter as practicable, and after having been duly sworn, faithfully to perform the duties required of them by this act, shall proceed to view, mark, and locate said road from point to point above described; and they shall make a report in writing to the next county commissioners court there after; which said report shall form a part of the records of said court, and the said road so laid out shall be deemed a State road, and shall be opened and kept in repair as other State roads are
Sec 3. The county commissioners court of each of the counties through which the said road passes, shall pay their proportionate
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part of the compensation of said commissioners out of the county treasury of each county at the rate of two dollars per day for the number of days in which they shall be actually employed in viewing, marking, and locating said road
Sec 4. That the county commissioners court of Jefferson county be and they are hereby authorized to make such alteration and relocation of that part of the Brownsville road in said county as the public good may seem to require, and as said court shall deem expediant.
Provided that no change of location shall be made at the county line
And provided further, that no such change, alteration[,] or relocation shall be made, in any part of the said Brownsvill Road, unless notice thereof shall be given, and petition therefor, shall be presented, as is required in other cases
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Passed the senate Jay 20. 1841
M L Covell Secty[Secretary]

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A Bill for an act to locate a state road from Columbus in Adams county to Brooklin in Schuyler county
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Handwritten Document, 4 page(s), Folder 314, SB 114, GA Session 12-2, Illinois State Archives (Springfield, IL),