A Bill for
An act Supplemental to an act entitled an act to authorize the trustees of Shawneetown to construct a McAdamized road,”
Sec.[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the People of the state of Illinois Represented in the General Assembly, That it shall be the duty of the County Commissioners Courts of Gallatin County. to continue the road mentioned in the act to which this is an
amendment a supplement on the most Eligible rout to the town of Equality and may take and use such materials as may be necessary to make the same and may
enter upon and pass over any highway if the public good shall require it so as to
make a good common highway for the passage of horses wagons and other wagons
^vehicles^ and all passengers and travellers. Provided that this act shall not be construed so as to appropriated the rail road way from from Equality to Shawneetown, only untill
the state untill
the state shall resume operations on said road for the completion of the same
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A Bill For an Act supplemental to an act entitled an act to authorize the trustees
of Shawneetown to construct a McAdamized Road,
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Roads
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Amend the bill by adding the following Section.
Sec. 2d
It shall be optional with the Trustees of said Town to adopt the Main Cross Street
of said Town extending to the high land [back?] of said Town, as the location of the Macadamized Road heretofore authorized to be constructed, by an Act entitled “an act to authorize
the trustees of said Shawneetown to construct a Macadamized road”. And ^
[?] in^ case of the adoption said Street for the aforesaid purpose the said Trustees shall
have the same powers and enjoy the same privileges and no more heretofore granted
to them by said act.
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1These legislators formed a select committee in the House of Representatives that considered the bill.
Handwritten Document, 4 page(s), Folder 412, SB 233, GA Session: 12-2,
Illinois State Archives (Springfield, IL) ,