Sec.[Section] 1^st Be it enacted by the people of the state of Illinois represented in the General Assembly: That Joseph Robinson of Edwards County, William Higgins and Samuel H. Clubb of Lawrence County or any two of them are hereby appointed commissioners to view, locate and mark a state road from Henry I Mills in Edwards County to Higgins Mills in Edwards County on the Bon Pas Creek, thence to Benjamin Sumners in Lawrence County; thence the nearest and best route to Heaths Mills on the Embarrass River in Lawrence County, and thence north to intersect the county road, in Crawford County, leading from Palestine to Heath‘s Mills; and shall make report thereof to the clerks of the County Commissioners Courts of Edwards and Lawrence Counties, of that part thereof that may lie within such county. And the County Commissioners Court of Edwards County shall make said commissioners a just and equitable allowance for all time and necessary expense in viewing and reporting the same to be paid out of the county treasury for that part that may pass through such county. And the County Commissioners Court of Laurence county shall in like manner make said commissioners a just & equitable compensation for all time and necessary expense in viewing and

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reporting the same to be paid out of the county treasury, for that part that may pass through such county

Sec 2^nd The said commissioners or any two of them shall meet on the first day of April next or within a month thereafter at Henry I. Mills’ and being duly sworn before some Justice of the Peace faithfully to discharge the duties required of them by this act shall proceed to view, mark and locate said road. And said road thus laid out shall be and is hereby declared a state road and shall be opened and kept in repair in the same manner as other public roads.

Sec 3^d The third and fourth sections of the act to which this is an amendment are hereby repealed. This act to be in force from and after its passage.