Papers Of Abraham Lincoln

In force 21st July, 1837

AN ACT in relation to certain Public Roads therein named.
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Commissioners appointed

Road commissioners changed

Sec.[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That William Warnick, of Macon county, Ezekiel S. Young, of Sangaman county, and Sylvester J. Durbin, of Montgomery county, be, and they are hereby appointed commissioners to view, mark, and locate a state road from Decatur, in Macon county, via Edinburg, to intersect the road leading from Springfield to Carlinville, at Harris’s point in Macoupin county, in lieu of the commissioners appointed for that purpose by an act, entitled “An act to locate a state road from Decatur, in Macon county, to Carlinville, in Macoupin county, via Edinburg, in Sangamon county, approved March 1st, 1837.”

Sec. 2. The said commissioners, or any two of them, shall comply in all respects with the provisions of the above recited act, which is hereby declared in full force and virtue, except in the change of the commissioners abovementioned, and may perform the duties hereby assigned them at any time before the 25th day of December next.

Sec. 3. This act to be in force from and after its passage.

Approved 21st July, 1837.

1Joseph Borough introduced SB 27 in the Senate on July 15, 1837. The Senate referred the bill to a select committee. The select committee reported back the bill on July 18 with an amendment, in which the Senate concurred. The Senate passed the bill as amended on July 19. The House of Representatives concurred on either July 20 or 21. On July 21, 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), 121, 174; 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), 56, 84, 98, 120, 146.