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Sect.[Section] 1st Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois, Represented in the General Assembly. That Samuel Hunsaker[,] George Hunsaker[,] and William C Whitelock of the County of Union be and they are hereby appointed to view and relocate so much of the Willards ferry
state Road as lies betweenJonesboro and Henry Cruse′s, Mill race; and so much thereof as lies between Caleb Truse[’]s house and the running lake.
Sect 2nd Said commissioners shall take an oath faithfully to discharge their duty under this
act without partiality and report their actings & doings in the premises to the
^next^ April Term of the County Commissioners Court of Union county, and shall state in their report, whether in their opinion the relocation, will make
the road shorter & better, and if in their opinion the same will be stra shorter & better; then the County Commissioners shall at said April Term by an order to be entered of record declare the relocation
so made a public state Road & cause the same to be opened and kept in repair, And
all such parts of
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the present road as shall be left out in such relocation shall be vacated whenever
the relocated ^of said road^ parts thereof shall be opened.
Sect 3rd That said commissioners shall receive out of the county Treasury of Union County the sum of one dollar & fifty cents, each for every day by them actually imployed in such review & location
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1John Dougherty introduced HB 126 in the House of Representatives on January 22, 1841. The House referred the bill to the Committee on State Roads.
The Committee on State Roads did not report back the bill. The House incorporated
many of the provisions of the bill into HB 284.
Illinois House Journal. 1840. 12th G. A., 265.
Handwritten Document, 2 page(s), Folder 82, HB 126, GA Session 12-2,
Illinois State Archives (Springfield, IL) ,