In force, Feb.[February] 27, 1841.
An ACT to establish a State road, from York, in Clark county, to Waterton, in Clay county.
1Com’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 J. B. Richardson, of the county of Clark, Joseph Picquet and Benjamin Eaton, of the county of Jasper, be and they are hereby declared commissioners to view, mark and locate a State road,
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the town of York, in Clark county; thence to Williams’ mill, on the North Fork of the Embarrass river; thence to St. Marie, in Jasper county, and thence to Waterton, in Clay county, where it will intersect the Vincennes and St. Louis turnpike.
Time & place of meeting.
Sec. 2. Said commissioners, or a majority of them, shall meet at York, on the first Monday in April next, or as soon thereafter as practicable; and after
being duly sworn, by some justice of the peace, faithfully to perform the duties required
of them by this act, shall proceed to locate said road, avoiding, as much as practicable,
the injury of private property.
Report of road.
Sec. 3. Said commissioners shall, within twenty days after having located said road, make a report, in writing, to the county commissioners’ courts of the respective counties through which said road shall pass; and said report shall
form a part of the records of said courts. And the said road, thus laid out, shall be considered a public highway of this State; and the county commissioners’ courts of the several counties through which said road passes, shall cause said road to
be opened and kept in repair as other State roads are.
Compensat’n[Compensation].
Sec. 4. The county commissioners’ courts of the several counties through which said road may pass, shall allow said commissioners a reasonable compensation for their services, in proportion
to the length of said road in each county.
Approved, February 27, 1841.
1On January 6, 1841, John Houston in the Senate presented the petition of citizens of Jasper, Clark, and other counties, requesting a state road. The Senate referred the petition to
the Committee on Public Roads. In response to this petition, Nelson W. Nunnally of the Committee on Public Roads introduced SB 126 in the Senate on January 22. The Senate passed the bill on January 25. The House of Representatives concurred on February 12. On February 27, the Council of Revision approved the bill and the act became law.
Illinois House Journal. 1840. 12th G. A., 286, 305, 376; Illinois Senate Journal. 1840. 12th G. A., 139, 191, 207, 305, 438, 454.
Printed Document, 2 page(s), Laws of the State of Illinois, Passed by the Twelfth General Assembly (Springfield, IL: William Walters, 1841), 253-54, GA Session 12-2,