Papers Of Abraham Lincoln

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

AN ACT to re-locate part of the State Road from Vincennes to Chicago.
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Appointment of commissioners.

To be sworn.

Make a report.

Sec.[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That the commissioners’ court of Crawford county, are hereby empowered, if they think proper, to appoint three disinterested commissioners, whose duty it shall be, (after being duly sworn before some justice of the peace for said county,) to impartially review, and re-locate, that part of the state road leading from Vincennes to Chicago, lying in Crawford county, commencing where said road crosses the line between the north-east and north-west quarters of section thirty-three, township eight north, range eleven west, and terminating at the town of Hutsonville, and make a report of the same to the next commissioners’ court.2

Road changed.

Sec. 2. If any change or alteration shall be made by said commissioners, the commissioners’ court shall cause the same to be confirmed; and said part so changed, shall be cut out the usual width, and kept in repair as other state roads.3

Compensation.

Sec. 3. The commissioners’ court shall pay out of the county treasury, to each commissioner, such sum per day, as they may deem just and equal.

Approved, Jan. 13, 1836.

1David McGahey introduced SB 75 in the Senate on January 2, 1836, and the Senate passed the bill on January 4. The House of Representatives passed the bill on January 11. On January 13, the Council of Revision approved the bill and the act became law.
Illinois House Journal. 1835. 9th G. A., 2nd sess., 232, 270, 276, 303, 309, 320; Illinois Senate Journal. 1835. 9th G. A., 2nd sess., 152, 165, 213, 231, 236.

2Township 8 North of Range 11 West of the Second Principal Meridian lies in the northeast corner of Crawford County.

3State 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.