Papers Of Abraham Lincoln

In force, Jan.[January] 13, 1836.

AN ACT to locate a State Road therein named.
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Act repealed.

Sec.[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That the act, approved the 24th of January, 1835, appointing commissioners to locate a state road therein named, be, and the same is hereby declared to be in full force and effect; Provided, The said commissioners shall locate the same within one year from the passage of this act.

Commissioners appointed to locate road.

Sec. 2. That James Riggin and William Welch, of the county of St. Clair, and Gershom Flagg and Samuel Segbole, of the county of Madison, be, and they are hereby appointed commissioners, to view, mark, and locate a road from Lebanon to Lower Alton, on the Mississippi river.

Where and when to meet.

To be sworn.

Sec. 3. The said commissioners, or any two of them, shall meet in the town of Lebanon, within one year from the passage of this act; and shall, before entering on the duties assigned them, take an oath, before some justice of the peace of the county in which they meet, faithfully and impartially to perform the duties assigned them by this act, and proceed to mark, and locate said road, on the nearest and most elegible route.

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To make report.

Appoint supervisors.

Compensation of commissioners.

Sec. 4. The said commissioners shall cause a true report of said road, signed by them, to be lodged with each of the county commissioners’ courts in the counties through which it may pass; which road, when laid out as aforesaid, shall be deemed a public state road; and the county commissioners of the counties through which said road may be located, shall appoint supervisors, and cause it to be opened, and kept in repair, as other public roads: and the said commissioners shall receive out of the treasury of the county in which they reside, one dollar per day, for the aforesaid services.2

Approved, Jan. 13, 1836.

1An unknown representative introduced the bill in the House of Representatives on or before December 22, 1835. The House passed the bill on December 22. The Senate concurred on or before January 13, 1836. On January 13, the Council of Revision approved the bill and the act became law.
Illinois House Journal. 1835. 9th G. A., 2nd sess., 122, 302, 309, 320; Illinois Senate Journal. 1835. 9th G. A., 2nd sess., 95.

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.