Papers Of Abraham Lincoln

In force 27th February, 1837

AN ACT concerning a State road from Albion to Maysville.
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County road from Albion to Sugar creek a State road.

Commissioners appointed to locate road from Sugar creek to N. E.[Northeast] corner of Wayne co. thence to Wilcox’s bridge, & thence to Maysville, and to be a State road.

Sec.[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois represented in the General Assembly, That the present county road, leading from Albion, in Edwards county, to Sugar creek, be and the same is hereby declared a State road, and that Daniel Ingraham and David Pugh, of Edwards county, and Robert Toler, of Clay county, be and they are hereby appointed commissioners to view and locate a road from the last mentioned point to Fox river, at or near the north east corner of Wayne county, thence to Wilcox’s bridge, or as near as practicable across the Little Wabash, and thence to Maysville in Clay county; and said road, when so viewed and located, shall be opened and kept in repair as other State roads are.2

commissioners to be swown.

When & where to meet
Duty to report

Sec. 2. Said commissioners, or any two of them, after being duly sworn before some justice of the peace, shall meet at the House of Isaac Greathouse, in Edwards county, on some day in the month of June next, and proceed to view and locate said road and report the facts to the

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county commissioners courts respectively through which the same may pass.

Compensation

Sec. 3. The county commissioners’ court of Edwards and Clay counties shall allow said commissioners a compensation of one dollar and fifty cents per day for each and every day they may be necessarily employed in the duties of this act.3

Approved 27th February, 1837.

1Responding to a petition from citizens of Edwards County, John D. Whiteside of the Committee on Petitions introduced SB 26 in the Senate on December 30, 1836. On January 9, 1837, the Senate referred the bill to a select committee, which reported back the bill with an amendment on January 12. The Senate approved the amendment, and on January 13, they passed the bill as amended. On January 26, the House of Representatives referred the bill to a select committee, which reported back the bill with amendments on February 14. The House approved the amendments, and on February 20, they passed the bill as amended. On February 24, the Senate concurred in the amendments from the House. On February 27, the Council of Revision approved the bill and the act became law.
Illinois House Journal. 1836. 10th G. A., 1st sess., 256, 301, 394, 588, 652, 711, 726; Illinois Senate Journal. 1836. 10th G. A., 1st sess., 110, 126, 133, 178-79, 195, 208, 470-471, 514, 530-531, 544.

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.

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.