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Section 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly. That the county road heretofore located from Carlyle via McAdams’ mill on Shoal Creek, Marine Town, & Edwardsville to Alton be and the same is hereby declared a State Road,2 and shall be opened and kept in repair as other state roads are, and the county commissioners of Clinton County, are hereby authorised out of any monies which may be subscribed by individuals or otherwise, to build and
keep in repair a free, bridge over Shoal Creek, where the said road shall cross, the same.
Section 2. Be it farther enacted, that the commissioners heretofore appointed to locate
a state Road from Vandalia to Alton, be and they are hereby required to make Greenville a point in the location of said road, and that Thomas Keys of Bond County be added as an aditional Commissioner.3
Sec[Section] 3. This act to be in force from and after its passage.
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An act declaring a certain road a state road and for other purposes.
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1John Hogan introduced HB 247 in the House of Representatives on February 13, 1837. The House referred the bill to a select committee. The select
committee reported back the bill on February 25 with an amendment, and the House tabled
the bill and proposed amendment until July 4, 1837.
Illinois House Journal. 1836. 10th G. A., 1st sess., 573, 711.
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.
Handwritten Document, 2 page(s), Folder 230, HB 247, GA Session 10-1, Illinois State Archives (Springfield, IL) ,