Papers Of Abraham Lincoln

In force, Feb. 19, 1841.

An ACT to locate and establish a State Road therein named.
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Com’rs[commissioners] to locate road.

Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That Elisha Smith, Hiram Elmore and John Buckanon, of Bond county, be, and they are hereby appointed commissioners to view and locate a State road from George Moore’s, in Bond county, to Van Burensburg, in Montgomery county.

Time & place of meeting.

Sec. 2. Said commissioners, or a majority of them, shall meet at the residence of George Moore, in Bond county, on the first Monday of May next, or within twenty days thereafter, and after being duly qualified by some justice of the peace, shall proceed to locate said road on the nearest and best route from George Moore's to Van Burensburg, by way of Mulberry Post Office.

Plat of road.

Sec. 3. Said commissioners shall make the location of said road by blazing the trees through the timber, and setting up stakes in the prairie; when the road shall have been thus

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located, the commissioners shall make out two statements in writing, showing the location thereof, and return one of said copies to each of the county commissioners' courts of Bond and Montgomery counties.

Pay of comr’s

Sec. 4. The county commissioners shall cause that part of said road which may be located in their respective counties to be opened and kept in repair as other State roads are. There shall be allowed to said commissioners locating said road, a reasonable compensation, to be paid out of the county treasuries of the counties of Bond and Montgomery in proportion to the distance that the road runs through each county.

From Carlinville to Berlin

Sec. 5. That Arthur Ledlee and James Grayham, of Macoupin county, and John Johnson, of Sangamon county, be, and they are hereby appointed commissioners to view, mark and locate a State road from Carlinville, in Macoupin county, to Berlin, in Sangamon county. Said commissioners shall meet at Carlinville on the first Monday in April next, or as soon thereafter as practicable, and after being duly sworn by some justice of the peace, for the faithful performance of the duties required of them by this act, shall proceed to view, mark and locate said road, having due regard to private property, us also to the nearest and best route.

Report.

Pay of com’rs

Sec. 6. Said commissioners shall within twenty days after having located said road, make a report in writing to the county commissioners’ court of Macoupin and Sangamon couties; said report shall form a part of the records of said courts, and said road thus laid out, shall be considered a State road, and be opened and kept in repair as such. The counties of Macoupin and Sangamon shall allow said commissioners a reasonable compensation for their services, in proportion to the length of the road in each county.

Approved, February 19, 1841.

1William Hunter presented a petition from the citizens of Bond County to the Senate on January 28, 1841, requesting the construction of a state road and the Senate referred it to the Committee on Public Roads. Nelson W. Nunnally introduced SB 141 on January 30 and the Senate referred it to a select committee. The committee reported back on February 4 and recommended an amendment, to which the Senate concurred. The Senate passed the bill on February 6. The House of Representatives passed the bill on February 16. The Council of Revision approved the bill on February 19 and the act became law.
Journal of the House of Representatives of the Twelfth General Assemble (Springfield, IL: William Walters, 1840), 346, 390, 409; Journal of the Senate of the Twelfth General Assembly (Springfield, IL: William Walters, 1840), 215, 221-222, 237, 248, 329, 351, 355-356.