In force, Jan.[January] 14, 1836.
Commissioners appointed to alter road.
Sec.[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois, representad in the General Assembly, That John F. Richardson, Stephen D. Handy and William B. Archer, are hereby appointed commissioners, who, under oath, impartially to discharge the
duties assigned them by this act, shall make such alteration in the Vincennes and Chicago road, between Darwin and the forty-fourth mile stone, and between said mile stone and the south line of
the county, as they shall deem best for the public good, doing as little damage to pri-
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vate property as possible; and they shall make a full report of their proceedings
under this act, to the county commissioners’ court of Clark county.2Certain road declared a state road.
Sec. 2. That the road lately located and opened in Clark county, from the point where the state road leading from Vincennes to Chicago, crosses Big creek, passing through the town of Marshall, to the forty-fourth mile stone on Walnut prairie, is hereby declared a state road,
and shall be kept in repair as other state roads are.3
Width.
Sec. 3. From the point north of the National Road, where said road makes a turn direct for the said town of Marshall, to the point where it turns below the National Road, (nearly four miles,) said new road shall be eighty feet wide, and all other parts
thereof shall be four rods wide.
Mile stones.
Sec. 4. Said commissioners shall remove, and place the mile stones where it becomes necessary,
to suit the alterations made in said road.4
Approved, Jan. 14, 1836.
1Uri Manly introduced HB 76 in the House of Representatives on December 26, 1835. The House passed the bill on December 30. On January 13, 1836,
the Senate amended the bill by adding an additional section. The Senate passed the bill as
amended. On January 13, the House approved of the Senate amendment. On January 14,
the Council of Revision approved the bill, and the act became law.
Illinois House Journal. 1835. 9th G. A., 2nd sess., 75, 155, 182, 311, 313, 319, 334;
Illinois Senate Journal. 1835. 9th G. A., 2nd sess., 134, 228-29, 238, 239, 248.
3State roads were those public roads established or designated by the General Assembly and usually crossed county lines. Only the General Assembly could establish, alter,
or abandon state roads, until 1840 and 1841, when the General Assembly gave counties
the authority to alter or to abandon state roads upon petition by a majority of voters
in the area of the change.
Printed Document, 2 page(s), Laws of the State of Illinois, Passed by the Ninth General Assembly, at their Second Session (Vandalia, IL:
J. Y. Sawyer, 1836), 192-93, GA Session: 9-2,Â