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Sec[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly
That Henry Butler of Macon County[,] Joseph [?] and [?] of McLean County be and they are hereby appointed Commissioners to view, [?] locate a State Road from Decatur in Macon County [?] on Salt Creek to Waynesville in McLean County [?]2
Sec 2. Said Commissioners or a majority of them shall meet at the Town of Decatur on the third Monday in May or within sixty days thereafter and after being duly Sworn
before some Justice of the Peace [?] for said County of Macon to faithfully and impartially discharge the duties required of [?] by [?] shall proceed to [?] nearest and [?] suitable ground [?] ation the damage [?] property from the Town of Decatur [?] of Franklin in Macon County and thence to Waynesville in McLean County said road to be [?] by setting up stakes in the Prairie and marking the trees in the timber.
Sec 3. Said Commissioners shall make or cause to be made a survey together with a map
or plat of said Road, which map or plat shall be filed in the Office of the Clerk
of the Counties of Macon and McLean and the County Courts of the said Counties shall cause said [?] to be opened and kept open as other Roads, [?] County Courts of [?] shall pay the said Commissioners and such[?] their [?] in proportion to the [?] County.
Sec 4 this Act to be in force from and after its passage
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1William G. Reddick introduced HB 200 in the House of Representatives on February 8, 1837. The House passed the bill on February 15. On February 22, the
Senate referred the bill to a select committee. The select committee reported back the bill
on February 23 with amendments, in which the Senate concurred. The Senate passed
the bill as amended. On February 27, the House rejected the Senate amendments. On
March 1, the Senate refused to recede from their amendments, and on March 2, the House
appointed representatives to a committee of conference to resolve the disagreement
between the two houses. On March 3, the Senate tabled the bill and the House’s request
for a conference committee.
Illinois House Journal. 1836. 10th G. A., 1st sess., 516, 599, 683, 734, 796, 805-06; Illinois Senate Journal. 1836. 10th G. A., 1st sess., 445, 490, 491, 569, 570, 594, 608.
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.
3These legislators formed a select committee in the Senate that considered the bill.
Illinois Senate Journal. 1836. 10th G. A., 1st sess., 490.
Handwritten Document, 2 page(s), Folder 187, HB 200, GA Session 10-1, Illinois State Archives (Springfield, IL) ,