Papers Of Abraham Lincoln

In force Jan.[January] 31, 1837

AN ACT to vacate part of a State road therein named.
1

Road from Greenup to Paris vacated.

Sec.[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That so much of the state road heretofore laid out in Coles county, commencing at the Cumberland road near Greenup in said county, to run in the direction to Paris in Edgar county, be and the same is hereby vacated.2

Approved Jan. 31, 1837.

1On January 13, 1837, Nathaniel Parker in the Senate presented the petition of citizens of Coles County, requesting that a certain state road be vacated. The Senate referred the petition to the Committee on State Roads. In response to this petition, John S. Hacker of the Committee on State roads introduced SB 86 in the Senate on January 17. On January 19, the Senate passed the bill. On January 25, the House of Representatives passed the bill. On January 31, the Council of Revision approved the bill, and the act became law.
Illinois House Journal. 1836. 10th G. A., 1st sess., 295, 321, 387, 407, 429; Illinois Senate Journal. 1836. 10th G. A., 1st sess., 206, 239, 249, 255, 302, 306, 322, 325.

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.