Papers Of Abraham Lincoln

In force, Feb.[February] 19, 1839.

AN ACT to change a part of the Grand View and Terre Haute road, in the county of Edgar.
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Part of road relocated.

Sec.[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That that part of the road lying between the ford of the creek, near Thomas Hicklins, in Edgar county, and the school house called Independence, about a quarter of a mile west of the aforesaid ford, be, and the same is hereby, relocated, and placed on the township line between those points, or as near to the line as the nature of the ground will permit.

Sec. 2. The present road shall be kept in repair as usual, and used as a public road until the above change is made, and the road opened, and made safe and convenient for service; after which time the present road shall be considered vacated, and the new part shall be recognized as a part of the State road leading from Grand View to Terre Haute.

Approved, February 19, 1839.

1On February 2, 1839, Senator Nelson W. Nunnally introduced SB 172 in the Senate. On February 5, the Senate passed the bill. On February 15, the House of Representatives passed the bill. On February 19, the Council of Revision approved the bill and the act became law.
Journal of the House of Representatives of the Eleventh General Assembly of the State of Illinois, at Their First Session, Begun and Held in the Town of Vandalia, December 3 1838 (Vandalia, IL: William Walters, 1838), 353, 404, 414, 428; Journal of the Senate of the Eleventh General Assembly of the State of Illinois, at Their First Session, Begun and Held in the Town of Vandalia, December 3, 1838 (Vandalia, IL: William Walters, 1838), 262, 278, 339, 347-348, 370-371.