Papers Of Abraham Lincoln

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Sec[Section] 1^st Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois represented in the general Assembly, That John Witt of the county of Pope Rowland of the county of Franklin and Joseph Wells of the county of Perry be and they are hereby appointed [commissioners?] to view and Locate a Road from Golconda [in Pope?] county to Pinckneyville in Perry County, thence on the nearest and best ground so as to intersect the Road heretofore Laid out from Pinckneyville to Livelies Ferry at or near James Coulter[’]s in grand Coat Prarrie and so much of the aforesaid road as Lies between Pinckneyville and James Coulter[’]s is hereby vacated.

Sec. 2. The commissioners aforesaid or a majority of them shall meet at Golconda on the first Monday in may next or within six months thereafter who after being duly sworn before some Justice of the Peace faithfully to discharge the duties required of them by the provisions of this act, shall proceede to view and Locate said Road, taking into consideration the Local situation of the country through which the same may pass, and establish the same on the most Eligible and advantageous ground as to make it a perminant and good Road, and the said commissioners shall on or before the first Monday in December make or cause to be made a true map of said Road signed by them Respectively to be Lodged by them in the office of the clerk of the county commissioners courts of the [counties?] through which the said Road may pass.

Sec. 3. The said Road when Laid out as [aforesaid?] shall be deemed and considered a Public State road and the county commissioners courts of the counties through which the said Road may pass shall appoint supervisors over said Road and cause the same to be opened and Kept in repair as other State Roads are.2

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Sec. 4^th the commissioners appointed under the provisions of this act shall receive a just and fare compensation for the time they are necessary imployed in the several counties herein mentioned each county paying there own commissioners.

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01/09/1836
Prickett, David (Pricket)

Passed the House of Representatives
January 9^th 1836
D. Prickett Clk[Clerk] H R

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H. Rep^s
A Bill Entitled “An Act” to Locate a State Road therein named

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Engrossed

1William Ross introduced HB 105 in the House of Representatives on January 1, 1836. The House passed the bill on January 9. The Senate concurred on January 11. Neither body enrolled the bill, and it did not become law.
Illinois House Journal. 1835. 9th G. A., 2nd sess., 197, 262; Illinois Senate Journal. 1835. 9th G. A., 2nd sess., 172, 202, 208.

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.