Be it Enacted by the people of the State of Illinois represented in the general assembly that the sum of four thousand to the county of Cass and one thousand to the county of Morgan and three thousand to the County of Sangamon be and the same is hereby appropriated to the improvement of Beardstown and springfield state Road and the said money shall be expended on said Road under the direction of John Broadwell of Sangamon County the said John Broadwell shall execute a Bond to the [...?] Governor of the state with one or more solvent endorsers for the faithfull discharge of the dutys required of him by this act and when the Governor has approved the Bond on the application of the said John Broadwell the Board of Public works shall drawn on the fund commissioners in favour of the said John Broadwell ^for the amount of this apropriation^ which they shall pay out of the internal improvement fund the said John Broadwell shall cause the money to be expended as fast as it can be profitable used on said Road and all of the appropriation shall be expended within six months from the time he draws the money from the fund commissioners this to take effect from and after the pasage thereof 1

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1Responding to a number of petitions on the subject, Andrew McCormick of a select committee introduced the bill in the House of Representatives on February 27, 1839. The House amended the bill by adding three sections and then referred it to the Committee on State Roads, which apparently took no further action.
Illinois House Journal. 1838. 11th G. A., 1st sess., 537-38.

Handwritten Document, 2 page(s), Folder 145, HB 203, GA Session 12-2, Illinois State Archives (Springfield, IL) ,