In force Jan.[January] 16, 1836.
AN ACT declaring a Road therein named to be a State Road.
1Sec.[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That so much of the road leading from Vandalia to Atlas in Pike county, as lies in Greene county, as located in pursuance of the act, approved December 22d, 1832, be, and the same
is hereby declared a state road, and shall be opened and kept in repair in the same
manner as other state roads are.2
Approved, Jan. 16, 1836.
1Calvin Tunnell introduced HB 90 in the House of Representatives on December 30, 1835. The House passed the bill without amendment on December 31.
The Senate passed the bill without amendment on January 14, 1836. On January 16, the Council of Revision approved the bill and the act became law.
Illinois House Journal. 1835. 9th G. A., 2nd sess., 177, 192, 345, 359; Illinois Senate Journal. 1835. 9th G. A., 2nd sess., 141, 244, 255, 268, 280.
2The act mentioned in this section relocated the state road from Vandalia to Atlas so that it passed through Carlinville and Carrollton.
“An Act to Change Part of the State Road Leading from Vandalia to Atlas, in Pike County,”
22 December 1832, Private (1832), 196-97.
State 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, 1 page(s), Laws of the State of Illinois, Passed by the Ninth General Assembly, at their Second Session (Vandalia, IL:
J. Y. Sawyer, 1836), 204, GA Session: 9-2,