Papers Of Abraham Lincoln

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Sec[Section] 1st Be it enacted by the people of the state of Illinois represented in the General Assembly, That an act to change a part of the state road leading from Vandalia to Golconda and for other purposes Approved Feb[February]. 12, 1835 be and the same is hereby revived and shall continue in force for twelve months after the passage [of] this act

Sec 2. That Reuben Wright of Sheby County, A. H Keller of Macon County, W^m T. Webber of Champaign County[,] Thomas Durham of Iroquois County and Henry Moore of Cook County, be and they are hereby appointed Commissioners, to survey, mark[,] and establish a state Road2 from Shelbyville in Shelby County to Chicago in Cook County.

Sec 3 Said Commissioners, or a majority of them shall meet in the Town of shelbyville on the firt Monday in April next or as soon thereafter as practicable, and after being duly sworn before some Justice of the peace faithfully to perform the duties required by this act, shall proceed to view, survey, mark, and establish a state Road on the nearest and best route from point to point, taking into consideration the public convenience, utility, and economy, so as to make the same a permanent Road.

Sec 4 Said Commissioners shall on or before the first [Monday?] of July next, make out a report of their proceedings to the County Commissioner’s Courts of the several Counties through which said Road shall pass, signed by each of said Commissioners, with the number of days they were employed in locating said Road, and said Commissioners shall receive one dollar and fifty cents per day for every day they may be necessarily employed in locating this road, and such other incidental expenses as the Commissioners may find it necessary to incur in the viewing, marking[,] and locating said road, to be paid out of the county Treasuries, of the several counties through which the road may pass.

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5 Sec When the said Road shall have been located and the reports filed as aforesaid, it shall be, and is hereby declared a state Road, and shall be opened fifty feet wide, and kept in repair as other state Roads are in this State.

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01/09/1836
Prickett, David (Pricket)

Passed the House of Representatives
January 9^th 1836.
D Prickitt clk[clerk]. H. R.

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H.R.
A Bill For ‘an act” entitled an act to revive [“]an act changing a part of the state road from Vandalia to GolcondaApproved Feby[February] 12. 1835. and for other purposes”

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Engrossed

1On January 2, 1836, Elijah S. Frazer introduced HB 121 in the House of Representatives, and the House referred it to a select committee. The select committee reported back the bill on January 6 with an amendment, in which the House concurred. The House passed the bill as amended on January 9, amending the title to include “and for other purposes.” The House reported the bill’s passage to the Senate on January 11, but the Senate took no action.
Illinois House Journal. 1835. 9th G. A., 2nd sess., 212, 243-44, 262-63; Illinois Senate Journal. 1835. 9th G. A., 2nd sess., 202-203.

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.