In force Jan. 31, 1837.
AN ACT declaring a road therein named a State road.
1Road from Bruce’s mill to Paris declared a State road.
Width.
Sec.[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That the road leading from the State line of Indiana, and commencing near Bruce’s horse mill in Edgar county, thence in a direct line to intersect the Dorkeys ferry road, near George Nevill’s in said county, thence west so as to meet the west end of Joseph Curtis’s lane, thence in a direct line to intersect the Sanford road, so called, near Sugar
creek, thence to Paris, be and the same is hereby declared a
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State road, fifty feet wide, and shall be kept in repair as other State roads.2This act to take effect from and after its passae.
Approved 31st January, 1837.
1On December 14, 1836, Augustus C. French in the House of Representatives presented the petition of citizens of Edgar County relating to a road from Clinton, Indiana, to Paris. The House referred the petition to a select committee. In response to this petition,
French of the select committee introduced HB 56in the House January 2, 1837. On January 20, the House passed the bill. On January
25, the Senate passed the bill. On January 31, the Council of Revision approved the bill, and the act became law.
Illinois House Journal. 1836. 10th G. A., 1st sess., 48, 156, 312, 385, 440; Illinois Senate Journal. 1836. 10th G. A., 1st sess., 267, 279, 282-83, 294, 306, 322.
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.
Printed Document, 2 page(s), Laws of the State of Illinois, Passed by the Tenth General Assembly (Vandalia, IL: William Walters, 1837), 242-43, GA Session: 10-1