Papers Of Abraham Lincoln

In force, Mar.[March] 1, 1839.

AN ACT to alter a certain road in Fayette county.
1

County commissioners of Fayette may locate road.

Course of road.

Sec.[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That the county commissioners of Fayette county be, and they are hereby, authorized and required, upon the presentation of twenty petitioners who reside upon and near the road proposed in this act to be changed, (to) make an order directing a resurvey and relocation of the road leading from Greenville to Shelbyville as lies in Fayette county, beginning in section numbered twenty-nine, and running north until it passes through the land of James S. Kirk; and thence, bearing a little east of north, until it passes through the land of H. B. Haines; and thence, running a due east course, until it passes between H. B. Haines’ and Louisa White’s land until it strikes the old road; and, when resurveyed and relocated, shall be kept in repair as other State roads in this State: Provided said relocation shall not operate to the injury of the neighborhood and the inconvenience of the travelling community. This act to be in force from and after its passage.

Approved, March 1, 1839.

1On February 19 1839, Robert Blackwell introduced SB 235 in the Senate. On February 22, the Senate passed the bill. On February 28, the House of Representatives passed the bill. On March 1, 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), 482, 564, 573; 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), 350, 383, 465, 474, 476.