Papers Of Abraham Lincoln

In force, 7th February 1837

AN ACT declaring a certain road herein named a state road.
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Sec.[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That the county road leading from Carlinville, in Macoupin county, to a state road established by an act entitled “an act to establish a state road from Jacksonville to Carlinville,” approved March, 2d, 1833, be and the same is hereby declared a state road, and shall be opened sixty feet wide and kept in repair as other State roads are.2

Approved, 7th February, 1837.

1On January 3, 1837, Joseph Borough introduced SB 44 in the Senate. On January 6, the Senate passed the bill. On February 2, the House of Representatives passed the bill. On February 7, the Council of Revision approved the bill, and the act became law.
Illinois House Journal. 1836. 10th G. A., 1st sess., 191, 253, 387, 450, 494; Illinois Senate Journal. 1836. 10th G. A., 1st sess., 145, 163, 346, 358, 364.

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 to Establish a State Road from Jacksonville to Carlinville,” 2 March 1833, Laws of a Practice Nature of the State of Illinois (1833), 169-70; An Act concerning Public Roads, sec. 9; An Act Authorizing Commissioners’ Courts to Alter, Change, and Relocate State Roads; An Act concerning Public Roads.