Papers Of Abraham Lincoln

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An act to locate a state road from Carlinville in Macoupin County to Grafton in Greene county

^Sec[Section] 1.^ Be it enacted by the people of the state of Illinois represented in the general Assembly That Milo Bennett[,] Thomas Cummings[,] and Isaac Darniel of the county of Greene and of the county of Macoupin Be and they are hereby appointed commissioners to view[,] servey[,] and locate a State road2 beginning at the Town of Carlinville in the county of Macoupin and thence ^running^ on the nearest and best rout by way of Jerseyville to Grafton in Green county And the said commissioners or a majority of them shall meet in the Town of Carlinville on the first ^13^ Monday of may next or within sixty days thereafter and after taken and oath faithfully to perform the duties assigned them to procede to locate[,] servey[,] and mark out said road and shall return an acurate map or plat of the same into each county commissioners court for so much of said road as may lay in their respective CountiesAnd3 the said county commissioners court in the county of Greene and Macoupin shall and they are hereby required to allow and pay said commissioners a compensation of two ône^ Dollars ^fifty cents^ each per day for their services and shall likewise pay all other expenses as attending the Servey and establishing said road each county to pay their proportion of said expenses agreeable to the length of said road in their respective counties

^Sec 2^ The Plat of servey and return of said commissioners shall be entered4 upon the records of the county commissioners court in each county through which said road runs and so soon as the said commissioners shall make said return it shall be the duty of said county commissioners court in êach^ county and they are hereby required to cause

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said road to be opened and Keep in repair as other roads are by law

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A Bill for An act to locate a State road from Carlinville to Grafton

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Prickett, David (Pricket)

to be engrossed as amended
Clk. H. R.

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Sel. Com.[Select Committee]
Harris.
Witt
Davis 5

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1William Lane introduced HB 114 in the House of Representatives on January 11, 1837. On January 26, the House referred the bill to a select committee. The select committee reported back the bill on January 30 with amendments, in which the House concurred. On February 6, the House passed the bill as amended. On February 10, the Senate referred the bill to a select committee, which took no further action on the bill.
Illinois House Journal. 1836. 10th G. A., 1st sess., 179, 235, 397, 427, 486-87; Illinois Senate Journal. 1836. 10th G. A., 1st sess., 359, 375, 387.

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.

3“and” changed to “And.”

4First two letters of “entered” written over an erasure.

5These legislators formed a select committee in the House of Representatives that considered the bill.
Illinois House Journal. 1836. 10th G. A., 1st sess., 397.