Papers Of Abraham Lincoln

In force March 3rd, 1837.

AN ACT to locate a state State road from Marshall to Grandview.
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Commissioners appointed to locate state road

Sec.[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That Thomas Carey, and Federick Sheuey of Edgar county, and W. B. Archer of Clark county, are hereby appointed commissioners to locate a state road2 from Marshall in the county of Clark, to Grandview in Edgar county.

When and where to meet

To be sworn

Duties.

Sec. 2. Said commissioners or a majority of them, shall meet at Marshall so soon as convenient, in the month of March or April next, and being duly sworn before some justice of the peace faithfully to discharge the duties imposed on them by this act, shall proceed to view, survey, mark, and locate said road, placing it on the most eligible route for a permanent road.

Width of road

Shall return a plat to county com.

Sec. 3. Said road when so located, shall be four poles wide, and shall be opened and kept in repair as other state roads are, and they shall return to the county commissioners’ court of each county, a plat of the same to be recorded.

Approved March 3d, 1837.

1An unknown senator introduced S Misc Bill 7 in the Senate on or before March 1, 1837. The Senate passed the bill on March 1. The House of Representatives concurred on the same day. On March 3, the Council of Revision approved the bill, and the act became law.
Illinois House Journal. 1836. 10th G. A., 1st sess., 775, 786, 820; Illinois Senate Journal. 1836. 10th G. A., 1st sess., 583, 608-609, 611-12.

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.