Papers Of Abraham Lincoln

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Sec[Section] 1. [Be it enacted] by the people of the state of [Illinois represe]nted in the General Assembly Th[at so] much of the state road2 leading from Springfield to Jacksonville as lies between John Simmes on said road to Caleb Shorts, be, and the same is hereby repealed.

Sec 2. That the old state road, leading between the points aforesaid vacated by a former act of this Legislature, and leading by Archers be, and the same is hereby revived, and the same declared a part of said state road; and shall be [worked?] and kept in repair as other state roads.

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01/04/1836
Prickett, David (Pricket)

Passed the House of Representatives
January 4^th 1836
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A Bill for an Act to vacate a part of the state road leading from Springfield to Jacksonville

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1On December 30, 1835, John T. Stuart in the House of Representatives presented the petition of various citizens of Sangamon County, requesting a change in a certain state road. The House referred the petition to the Committee on Petitions. Stuart from the Committee on Petitions introduced HB 104 in the House on January 1, 1836. The House passed the bill on January 4. The Senate took no action.
Illinois House Journal. 1835. 9th G. A., 2nd sess., 195-96, 220; Illinois Senate Journal. 1835. 9th G. A., 2nd sess., 171.

2State 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.
An Act concerning Public Roads, sec. 9; An Act Authorizing Commissioners’ Courts to Alter, Change, and Relocate State Roads; An Act concerning Public Roads.