Sec[Section] 1 Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois represented in the General Assembly; That Fields Jarvis of Warren County, William Edmondson of McDonough County and Alfred Spencer of Schuyler county be and they are hereby appointed commissioners to view, mark and locate a state road,
to commence at Rushville in Schuyler County, thence to Macomb in McDonough County; thence to Monmouth in Warren county.
Sec. 2. That said commissioners or a majority of them shall meet at Rushville on the first day of June next or within three months thereafter; and after being
sworn by 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 from point to point
as directed in the first section of this act, upon the nearest and best route, avoiding
as much as practicable any injury to farms, improvements and private property on said
route; and make out and return to the county commissioners’ court of the several counties through which it passes a certified report of said road,
describing
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as nearly as possible the route and distance of said road, which shall be filed with
the several clerks of the county commissioners courts through which said road passes within one month after said road is located. And
said road when so located shall be deemed a public state road and kept in repair as
other state roads are.
Sec 3 The county commissioners’ Courts of the several counties, through which said road passes, shall allow to said commissioners
appointed under this act, a Sum not exceeding one dollar and fifty cents per day for
their services for the time necessarily employed by them, in the discharge of the
duties assigned them by this act, to be paid equally out of the county treasuries of the counties in which said road may be located.
Sec 4 That, if the county commissioners’ Court of any ^two^ of the counties through which said road passes, shall think proper they may authorize
said road commissioners, to cause said road to be surveyed and plats thereof filed
in the offices of the clerks of the county commissioners’ courts of the several counties through
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which said road passes, in the same manner as other state roads are surveyed. The
expense of surveying to be paid equally out of the county treasuries of the several counties in which said road may be located.
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Handwritten Document, 4 page(s), Folder 234, SB 77, GA Session: 9-1,
Illinois State Archives (Springfield, IL) ,