Papers Of Abraham Lincoln

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An act to Improve the State Road2 from M^t Carmel to Salem in marion County

Sec[Section] 1^st Be it Enacted by the people of [the?] State of Illino[is] Represented in the General asembley that

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A Bill for ^[~~...~~?]^ an act to improv[e] the State Road from M^t Carmel to Salem in marion County

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Sel com[Select committee]
Hunt
Frazer
Smith 3

1Thomas Hunt introduced HB 130 in the House of Representatives on January 2, 1836. The House referred the bill to a select committee. The select committee reported back the bill on January 16 with an amendment. The House rejected the amendment and the committee’s report by a voting of 21 yeas to 21 nays, with Abraham Lincoln voting yea. The House tabled the bill.
Illinois House Journal. 1835. 9th G. A., 2nd sess., 215, 347-48
(Vandalia, IL: J. Y. Sawyer, 1835), .

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.

3These legislators formed a select committee in the House of Representatives that considered the bill.
Illinois House Journal. 1835. 9th G. A., 2nd sess., 215.