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In force 20th July, 1837
AN ACT legalizing the location of the State Road from Knoxville to New-Boston.
Preamble
Whereas, By an act of the General Assembly of the State of Illinois, passed on the 13th day of February, 1835, appointing commissioners to locate a state
road from Knoxville to New-Boston, required said commissioners to be sworn by some justice of peace; and said commissioners
having been sworn by the clerk of the county commissioners’ court, thereby making it doubtful whether said commissioners were legally authorized to
locate said road: Therefore,
Road declared a State road
Sec.[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That the road as now laid out from Knoxville, in Knox county, to New-Boston, in Mercer county, be and the same is hereby declared a state road; and said road shall be opened and
kept in repair as other roads are.
Sec. 2. This act to take effect and be in force from and after its passage.
Approved, 20th July, 1837.
1William McMurtry introduced HB 2 in the House of Representatives on July 12, 1837. The House passed the bill on July 13. The Senate concurred on July 17. On July 20, the Council of Revision approved the bill and the act became law.
Journal of the House of Representatives of the Tenth General Assembly of the State
of Illinois, at a Special Session of the General Assembly, Begun and Held in the Town
of Vandalia, July 10, 1837 (Vandalia, IL: William Walters, 1837), 9, 24-25, 29, 90, 102, 104, 137;Journal of the Senate of the Tenth General Assembly of the State of Illinois, at a
Special Session, Begun and Held in Vandalia, July 10, 1837 (Vandalia, IL: William Walters, 1837), 48-49, 52, 72, 90.
Printed Document, 1 page(s), Laws of the State of Illinois, Passed by the Tenth General Assembly, at their Special Session (Vandalia, IL: William Walters, 1837), 62, GA Session: 10-S