Papers Of Abraham Lincoln

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Sec[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly; That, Daniel A [Fullerton?] of Hancock County and Robert Alexander of M^cDonough County be, and [they] are hereby appointed Commissioners, to view, mark, stake, and locate, a state road,2 from Warsaw in Hancock County, via Carthage, to M^cCombe in M^cDonough County; the nearest and best route from point to point, designating the same by driving stakes in the prairie, and marking the trees in the timber; having in view its permanency, and a due regard to the public good, doing as little private injury as may be.

Sec. 2. The said Commissioners shall meet [?] the first Monday of April next, or as soon thereafter as practicable at M^cCombe in M^cDonough County, and after being duly sworn before some Justice of the peace, in and for said county faithfully to discharge the duties required of them by this act; shall proceed to view, stake, mark[,] and locate said road as required by this act; and as soon thereafter as practicable, shall cause to be made out a report of the location of said road; designating [?] noted points thereon, and return a copy of the same to the clerk of the County Commissioners Court of each of said counties: and said road when thus laid out, shall be, and is hereby declared a public state road; and shall be opened and kept in repair in the same manner as other public roads are

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Sec. 3. The said Commissioners are [authorised?] to call to their assistance, such other help as may be necessary for the location of said road and the County Commissioners Court of each of said Counties, shall allow to said commissioners, and other persons employed by them, a sum, not exceeding one dollar and fifty cents each for every day necessarily [employed?] in the location of said road, to be [?] the County treasury of each of said counties, according to the distance the said road may pass through the [same?], whenever a plat of the same shall be filed in the clerks office as recited in this act, duly certified and attested by them.

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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. R.
A Bill for an act to locate a state Road from Warsaw in Hancock County to M^cCombe in M^cDonough County

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Engrossed

1On December 30, 1835, Thomas H. Owen in the House of Representatives presented the petition of various citizens of Hancock County, requesting construction of a state road. The House referred the petition to a select committee. Owen from the select committee introduced HB 117 in the House on January 2, 1836. The House passed the bill on January 9. The Senate took no action.
Illinois House Journal. 1835. 9th G. A., 2nd sess., 176, 209, 229, 261; Illinois Senate Journal. 1835. 9th G. A., 2nd sess., 202.

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.