Sec[Section] 1 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois represented in the General Assembly, That George Akers and Moses Thomas of Champaign County and James M Kellep of M^cLean County be and they are hereby appointed commissioners to view, mark[,] and locate a road from Moses Thomas’[s] in Champaign County by the way of Urbana, in said County to Bloomington in M^c Lean County.

Sec 2 Said Commissioners, or a majority of them shall meet at the house of Moses Thomas on the first day of April next, or as soon thereafter as they Conveniently Can, And after being ^first^ duly sworn before some Justice of the peace faithfully To discharge the duties required of them by this act, shall forthwith proceed to view[,] mark[,] and locate said road on the nearest and best ground, for a permanent road, doing as little injury to private property as the public good will permit

Sec 3 Said Commissioners, or a majority of them shall on or before the first Monday in June next make a map or plat of that part of said road which lies in the respective Counties, and transmit

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the same to each of the Clerks of the County Commissioners’ courts, respectively, to be ^by^ him filed in his office, and shall, also, make a full map or plat of said road, and transmit the same to the office of the secretary of State of this state there to be ^filed^ and preserved.

Sec 4 When said road shall be located and established, it shall be deemed a publick highway: shall be opened sixty feet wide, and shall be kept in repair as other publick higways.

Sec 5 The County Commissioners Courts of the respective Counties shall Cause to be paid to the said road commissioners, and such hands as ^the^ said Commissioners may find it necessary to employ, in viewing[,] marking[,] and locating said road, such Compensation out the county Treasury as they may deem reasonable.