Sec[Section] 1st Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois represented in the General assembly
That William Weatherford of Morgan County and Harry Riggin of Sangamon and John K. Felts of Macoupin County be and they are hereby appointed Commissioners to ascertain[,] designate[,] and permanently establish the County line between the Counties of Morgan and Sangamon
That William Weatherford of Morgan County and Harry Riggin of Sangamon and John K. Felts of Macoupin County be and they are hereby appointed Commissioners to ascertain[,] designate[,] and permanently establish the County line between the Counties of Morgan and Sangamon
Sec 2 Said commissioners or a majority of them at some day before the first of June next
shall meet at Cooke’s & Eastman’s mill, and after having been sworn by some Justice of the peace of either Morgan or Sangamon County shall proceed to ascertain[,] and disignate[,] and establish the County line between said Counties beginning at the South East corner
of Township 13 north of Range 8 west of the third principal meridian and running thence
in a Northern direction between the waters of Apple Creek[,] Mauvisterre and Indian Creeks
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on the left and the waters of the Sangamon River on the right untill they strike the middle of ^Range^ 8 West: it shall be the duty of said commissioners to plant and fix suitable stones,
at least every mile from the place of beginning to the place of termination
Sec 3d It shall be the duty of said commissioners to make three reports, and maps and copies
of the Field notes of the the Survey, one of which they shall send to the Secretary of State to be by him filed
and preserved in his office and one shall be sent to the county commissioners Court of each of the counties of Morgan and Sangamon and shall be by them recorded at length on the records of said Court and filed and preserv^ed^
Sec 4 Said commissioners may employ a Surveyor and such other hands as may be necessary
to carry into effect the fore going provisions of this act and it shall be the duty
of the County commissioners Courts of Morgan and Sangamon to allow
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to said commissioners two dollars for each day they shall be necessarily employed
in performing the duties enjoined upon them by this act also to said Surveyor two dollars and 50 cts[cents] for each day he may be employed, and one dollar for each hand necessarily, employed
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Engrossed.
Handwritten Document, 4 page(s), Folder 141, HB 173, GA Session 9-1,
Illinois State Archives (Springfield, IL) ,