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Sec[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the people of the state of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That Robert Grant of McDonough County and Peter Scott and Amos Williams of Warren County, be, and they are hereby appointed commissioners, to review and relocate, so much
of the state road, leading from Rushville to monmouth, as lies between Mcombe and Monmouth.2
Sec 2. Said Commissioners shall meet in the Town of Monmouth, on the first Monday in April next, or within two months thereafter, and being first
duly sworn, faithfully to discharge the duties enjoined on them by this act, shall
proceed to review and re-locate the road [afore?]said; having a due regard to public [convenience?], and the rights of private property . . . and to the nearness and eligibility of the route
Sec 3. Said Commissioners, shall, on or before the first Monday of June next; make out
a true report of their proceedings, with a map of said Road, and file a copy thereof,
with the clerks of the Commissioners Courts of Warren and McDonough Counties. The County Commissioners Court of the Counties aforesaid, shall make said Commissioners, a reasonable compensation
for their services.
Sec 4. Said road when relocated as aforesaid shall be deemed a state road, and shall
be worked, and kept in repair as other State Roads So much of the old state Road as
lies between the points aforesaid, as shall be changed by said survey, be, and the
same is hereby vacated.
Sec 5. Be it further enacted, that so much of the ^state Road^
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State Road from Beardstown to Alton [?] according to the act of 22nd
Decr[December] 1832, as lies [between?] Apple creek Bridge, and the north line of Green County, be, and the same is hereby declared a state road, as changed by order of the county
Commissioners Court of Greene County [at the?] September term 1835. and said road [shall?] be opened and kept in repair, as other [state] roads are.3<Page 3>
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1On December 29, 1835, Peter Butler in the House of Representatives presented a petition from sundry citizens of Warren County, requesting a change in the state road from Macomb to Monmouth. The House referred the petition to the Committee on Petitions. Responding to this
petition, John T. Stuart of the Committee on Petitions introduced HB 135 in the House on January 8, 1836.
The House referred the bill to a select committee. The select committee reported
back the bill on January 9 with an amendment, in which the House concurred. On January
11, the House passed the bill as amended, amending the title by adding the words “and
to establish a part of a State Road in Greene county.” The Senate passed the bill on January 16. Neither the House nor Senate enrolled the bill
before the end of the session.
Illinois House Journal. 1835. 9th G. A., 2nd sess., 161,254, 266, 275-76, 367; Illinois Senate Journal. 1835. 9th G. A., 2nd sess., 219, 283.
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.
3On January 9, 1836, the House of Representatives amended the bill by adding the fifth section.
Illinois House Journal. 1835. 9th G. A., 2nd sess., 266.
4On January 11, 1836, the House of Representatives amended the bill title by adding the words “and to establish a part of a State Road
in Greene county”.
Illinois House Journal. 1835. 9th G. A., 2nd sess., 275.
Handwritten Document, 4 page(s), Folder 124, HB 135, GA Session: 9-2,
Illinois State Archives (Springfield, IL) ,