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 Major Bostwick2 and William Palmer of Green County, and Thomas G Hawley of Madison County be and they are hereby appointed commissioner to view, mark, and Locate a State road3 from Lower Alton in Madison County to Fayette by the way of Delaware in Green County to Point Pleasant in Morgan County. S4

Sec. 2. Said commissioners or a majority of them shall on or before the first Monday in June next or as soon thereafter as they conveniently can, and after being first duly sworn before some Justice of the Peace faithfully to discharge the duties required of them by this act, shall forthwith proceed to view, mark[,] and Locate said road on the nearest and best ground for a permanent road, doing as little injury to private property as the public good will permit.

Sec. 3. Said commissioners or a majority of them, shall on or before the first Monday of June next make a plat of that part of said road, which Lies in their respective counties, and transmit the same to each of the clerks of the county commissioners court’s respectively, to be by them filed in their officers, and shall also make a full map or plat of said road, and transmit the same to the office of the Secratary of State their to be filed and preserved.

Sec. 4. When said road shall be Located and established, it shall be deemed a public highway, shall be opened sixty feet wide, and shall be kept in repair as other public roads or highways.

Sec. 5. The county commissioners courts of Madison and Green Counties, may cause to be made such reneumeration to those necessarially employed in viewing and establishing said road as they may think reasonable.

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Prickett, David (Pricket)

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D. Prickett clk[clerk] H. R

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A Bill Entitled “An Act” to establish a State road from Alton to Point Pleasant

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1Charles Gregory introduced HB 112 in the House of Representatives on January 1, 1836. The House referred it to a select committee. The select committee reported back the bill on January 2 with amendments, in which the House concurred. On January 4, the House passed the bill as amended. The Senate took no action.
Illinois House Journal. 1835. 9th G. A., 2nd sess., 203-04, 209, 221; Illinois Senate Journal. 1835. 9th G. A., 2nd sess., 172.

2Probably referring to Manoah Bostick.

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

4The area of Point Pleasant became part of Scott County in 1839.