sworn faithfully to perform their duties under this act, shall proceed to locate said road, as directed in the first section of this act. Said commissioners shall, as soon as said road may be located, make a report and plat of said road, and deliver a copy thereof to the clerk of the county court of each county through which said road may run; which copies shall be certified by said commissioners, and shall be filed and preserved by said clerks in their respective offices. § 3. Said road, when so laid out, shall be and the same is hereby declared to be a state road, and shall be opened and kept in repair as other state roads. The county courts of said counties shall make such compensation to said commissioners as they may think just; which shall be paid by said counties, in proportion to the number of miles of road in each county. § 4. This act to take effect and be in force from and after its passage. APPROVED February 18, 1861. AN ACT to relocate a part of a certain state road therein mentioned. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That David Green, B. F. Ross and WF. Lamer, of Union county, be and they are hereby appointed commissioners to view, mark and locate a part of the state road leading from Murphysboro, in Jackson county, to Jonesboro, Union county, as follows: Leaving the old road, above mentioned, at the farm of Henry Lingle, in said county, thence, through the town of South Pass, to intersect the present road, at David Green's. § 2. Upon such location being made said commissioners, or any two of them, shall make a report of the same to the county court of Union county; and said court shall cause said road to be opened and kept in repair; and said road is hereby declared to be a state road. This act to be in force from and after its passage. APPROVED February 21, 1861. In force February 21, 1861. Commissioners' report. AN ACT to locate and establish a state road from a point in the Vincennes In force February and Chicago road to a point in the road leading from Paris, in Edgar county, to Springfield. 22, 1861. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That Jacob Rogers, Archibald Myers and Jeremiah Myers, of Edgar Route of read. Meeting of commissioners. Surveyors, &c. Filing of plat. Compensation. county, be and they are hereby appointed commissioners to view, mark and locate a state road, in the county of Edgar, beginning at a point in the Vincennes and Chicago road, at a cross-road, at or near the southeast corner of the southwest quarter of the southwest quarter of section nineteen, in township fifteen north, range eleven west, and running, thence, west, to the range line dividing ranges eleven and twelve west; thence, west, on the section lines, to the northwest corner of section thirty, in township fifteen north, range twelve west; thence, south, on the range line, onefourth of a mile; thence, in a southwestwardly direction, on the most practicable route, through the Mulberry Grove, to the northeast corner of section thirty-three, in township fifteen north, range thirteen west; thence, west, on the section lines, to the northwest corner of section thirty-two, same township and range; thence, south, on the section line, to the township line; thence, east, on the township line, to the northwest corner of section five, in township fourteen north, range thirteen west; thence, south, on section lines, to the county road known as the Paris, Pilot Grove and Upper Catfish road. 2. Said commissioners, or a majority of them, shall meet at the house of Jacob Rogers, in said Edgar county, on the first Monday of May next, or within twenty days thereafter, and, after being duly sworn by some officer duly authorized to administer oaths, shall proceed to discharge the duties required of them by this act. § 3. Said commissioners, in the discharge of their said duty, shall procure the services of a competent surveyor, chain carriers and other necessary assistants, and shall lay out, view and locate said road, by courses and distances. § 4. Said commissioners shall, within a reasonable time after they shall have laid out, viewed and located said road, as by this act they are required to do, cause a correct plat thereof to be made by said surveyor, and shall file such plat, together with a copy of the field notes of such survey, in the office of the county clerk of Edgar county; and said county clerk shall record said plat and field notes in the book of record of proceedings of the county board of said county. § 5. Upon the filing of such plat and field notes in the office of said county clerk and the recording thereof, as by this act required, said road shall and is hereby declared to be a state road and public highway, sixty feet in width, and shall be opened, worked and repaired as such. § 6. Said commissioners shall be entitled to and allowed, as compensation, the sum of one dollar and fifty cents, each, per day, for each and every day necessarily spent in the discharge of the duties by this act required of them. Said surveyor shall be allowed and entitled to, as compensation for his services, the sum of three dollars per day; and said chain carriers and all other necessary and proper assistants shall be each entitled to and allowed the sum of one dollar per day, for each day necessarily employed in the discharge of the duties by this act required, to be paid out of the treasury of said Edgar county. 87. This act to take effect and be in force from and after its passage. APPROVED February 22, 1861. AN ACT to locate and establish certain state roads therein named, through In force February the counties of Perry, Randolph and Jackson. 18, 1861. road. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That Ephraim Ruse, Jacob Short and Ruse Osburn, are hereby appointed Relocation of commissioners to view and mark out a state road, commencing at the southeast corner of Osburn's addition to the town of Pinckneyville; thence, south, on the land lines through the lane between Thomas Sterlings and Mr. Anderson's; thence, the nearest and best route, to the old Nettleton farm; thence, to the, Chester and Mulkytown road; thence, west, along said road, to the village of Denmark; thence, to Jacob Short's; thence, the most eligible route, to Liberty, in Randolph county-the viewers avoiding, as much as possible, the injury of private property. missioners. § 2. Said commissioners, or a majority of them, shall Meeting of commeet to perform the duty required of them at Pinckneyville, at any time before the first day of December, 1861; and before entering upon the duties assigned them by this act shall take an oath, before some justice of the peace, faithfully to discharge their duties required of them by this act. § 3. Said commissioners shall make out a plat of said Plat road, with the distance, from point to point; which plat, when so made out, shall be certified to by said commissioners, or a majority of them, and a copy thereof filed in the office of the clerk of the county courts of Perry, Jackson and Randolph counties; and the county courts shall then cause so much of said road as lies within their respective counties to be opened, sixty feet wide, and kept in repair as other state roads. 84. Should any person or persons claim damages, by Damages, reason of said road passing over his, her or their premises, the same shall be assessed and paid in the manner now provided by law. § 5. The said commissioners, or a majority of them, Compensation. shall make out and present to the county court of each county in which said road may be located a certified copy of their time and number of hands, respectively employed in each county; thereupon it shall be the duty of said court to make compensation for the same severally due, in proportion to the number of days in each county, allowing to each commissioner the sum of two dollars per day, and to each hand employed the sum of one dollar and fifty cents per day, and to the surveyor the sum of two dollars and fifty cents per day, for each day necessarily employed in locating said road through their said counties. § 6. That the road that is now traveled from Murphysboro, crossing Beaucoup at the Highbouk Lick; from thence to Vergennes, Creekpaum's bridge, H. S. Osburns, and to Pinckneyville; thence, west, along the new road viewed out by Robert Fallon, J. M. Sullivan and E. B. Rushing, to the St. Louis road; thence, west, along said road, to the Grand Coat Prairie; thence, to Athens, in St. Clair county. This above mentioned road is hereby declared to be a state road; and it shall be the duty of the counties of Jackson, Perry and St. Clair to have said road opened, sixty feet wide, and kept in repair as other state roads. $7. And so much of the old St. Louis road as lies between Pinckneyville and the junction of the new road, that was laid out by Robert Fallon, J. M. Sullivan and É. B. Rushing, is hereby disannulled and vacated. § 8. This act to take effect and be in force from and after its passage. APPROVED February 18, 1861. In force February 22, 1861. AN ACT legalizing a certain public road therein named. WHEREAS James Winters, of the town of Clarion, and David Nichols and William Morrison, of the town of Westfield, in the county of Bureau, and state of Illinois, did, on the first day of February, eighteen hundred and sixty, appeal to David Hall, John H. Bryant and Enos Smith, three supervisors of the towns of La Moille, Princeton and Berlin, in said county, from an order and determination of the commissioners of highways of said towns of Clarion and Westfield, in relation to the laying out a public highway on the south side of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy railroad, from the town or village. of Arlington to the east line of said Bureau county, and running through both of said towns of Clarion and Westfield; and whereas the parties taking the appeal made the selection of the supervisors, instead of the town clerks of said town; therefore, SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That the acts and proceedings of the said supervisors, in laying out and establishing said road, is hereby legalized and made valid, to all intents and purposes. This act to be in force from and after its passage. AN ACT to confirm the title to real estate in Wabash, in Abraham Russell In force February and others. WHEREAS Charles II. Constable, executor of the last will and testament of Thomas S. Hinde, deceased, proprietor of the town of Mount Carmel, in pursuance of the provisions of said will, sold and conveyed, by deed, dated May 7th, 1846, to one Abraham Russell, all that certain tract or parcel of land, being a part of that tract known and designated on the plat of the town of Mount Carmel, county of Wabash, and state of Illinois, as being the River Reserve of the proprietors of the said town, of six poles from the low water mark of the Wabash river, beginning at the lower corner of McDonald's ware-house lot; thence, running six poles, with the line of the commons attached to said town, to a stake, on said line; thence, with a line parallel to said lower ware-house lot, to a point on the low water mark of said river; thence, with the same and up said river, to a point opposite to the place of beginning; thence to the place of beginning; containing, in all, thirty-six poles, as also all the ferry right which said testator, in his life time, owned or which might now in any wise be claimed by the heirs or devisees of said testator; which said deed was duly recorded in said Wabash county; and whereas, afterwards, on the 5th day of April, 1857, the record of said deed was destroyed by the burning of the court house, in the said county; therefore, 22, 1861. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That all and singular the rights, privileges and franchises granted to said Confirmation of Abraham Russell, his heirs and assigns, by said deed of conveyance, are hereby confirmed in him, his heirs and assigns forever. § 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. APPROVED February 22, 1861. rights. |