Papers Of Abraham Lincoln

In force Jan.[January] 7, 1835.

AN ACT to permanently establish the Road leading from Vandalia to Shelbyville, as far as the County Line of Fayette County.
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Road declared a public highway.

Sec.[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That the road as now traveled from Vandalia to Shelbyville by Chaffin’s, Doyle’s, Boaz’s bridge, Blankenship’s and Mark Jones’s, thence on the dividing line between Binns J. Wren and William Nichols, and between said Nichols and John Depew; thence by Bowling Jones, crossing Beck’s creek on the bridge over the same, to the line dividing the counties of Fayette and Shelby at the point where the road aforesaid crosses the same, is hereby declared a public highway, and hereafter shall be so deemed and taken, and shall be worked upon and kept in repair as other public highways and State roads are required to be in this State.

Compensation of commissioners.

Sec. 2. That the county commissioners’ court for the county of Fayette, be, and they are hereby required to make an allowance to each commissioner of not less than one dollar and fifty cents for each day necessarily employed; and to all other persons employed in surveying and locating the road aforesaid, not less than seventy-five cents per day, satisfactory proof being first made to said court that said services were performed under the authority of “An act for establishing the road from Vandalia to Shelbyville, as lies in Fayette county, and for other purposes,” approved, February 1st, 1833.2

Approved, Jan.[January] 7, 1835.

1On December 13, 1834, William Lee D. Ewing in the Senate presented a petition of sundry citizens of Fayette County praying that the road leading from Vandalia to Shelbyville be declared a state road. The Senate referred the petition to a select committee. In response to said petition, Ewing from the aforesaid select committee introduced SB 15 in the Senate. The Senate referred the bill to the select committee that considered the original petition and drafted the bill. The select committee reported back the bill on December 17 with an amendment, in which the Senate concurred. On December 18, the Senate passed the bill as amended. On December 22, the House of Representatives referred the bill to a select committee. The select committee reported back the bill on December 23 with an amendment, in which the House concurred. On December 24, the House passed the bill as amended. The Senate concurred with the House amendment on December 26. On January 7, 1835, the Council of Revision approved the bill and the act became law.
Journal of the House of Representatives of the Ninth General Assembly of the State of Illinois, at their First Session, Begun and Held in the Town of Vandalia, December 1, 1834 (Vandalia, IL: J. Y. Sawyer, 1835), 139, 145, 149, 157, 170, 223, 241, 245; Journal of the Senate, of the Ninth General Assembly of the State of Illinois, at their First Session, Begun and Held in the Town of Vandalia, December 1, 1834 (Vandalia, IL: J. W. Sawyer, 1835), 88, 94, 101, 104, 113, 136, 137, 192, 195.

2“An Act for establishing the road from Vandalia to Shelbyville, as lies in Fayette county, and for other purposes,” 1 February 1833, Laws, of a Private Nature, Passed at the Eighth Session of the General Assembly of the State of Illinois (1833), 131.