Papers Of Abraham Lincoln

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Sect[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly.

That the County road leading from the town of Le-Roy in the County of McLean, to the town of Lexington in said County, be, and the same is hereby declared a State-Road.2

This act to take effect from and after its passage.

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Bill for an act Declareing a road thereing named a State Road

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1Asahel Gridley introduced HB 128 in the House of Representatives on January 22, 1841. The House referred the bill to the Committee on State Roads. The Committee on State Roads did not report back the bill, and its provisions became a section in HB 284.
Illinois House Journal. 1840. 12th G. A., 266.

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.