Sec.[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That John Phelps, Wm. W. Linn and James L. Kirkpatrick, are hereby appointed commissioners to view, survey and locate a road from Chicago in Cook county, to Galena in Jo Daviess county.

Sec. 2. The commissioners, or a majority of them, shall, on the first Monday in June, 1835, or as soon thereafter as may be, assemble at the town of Chicago, and after being duly sworn before some justice of the peace, faithfully to observe the provisions of this act, proceed to view and locate said road, making Meacham’s Grove in Cook county, and the residence of the said John Phelps on Rock River in Jo Daviess county, points on the said road; and shall fix the said road on the most advantageous ground, having reference to said points for a permanent road; and the said commissioners shall, on or before the first day of November next, make, or cause to be made, true surveys and maps of said road, signed by them, to be lodged with each of the county commissioners’ courts in the counties respectively through which said road passes, which road when laid out as aforesaid, shall be deemed and considered a public State road; and the county commissioners’ courts of the counties through which said road is located, shall cause the same to be opened four poles wide, and to be worked and kept in repair as other public roads are: Provided, however, That the commissioners appointed in the first section of this act, shall not receive from the State Treasury nor the Treasuries of the counties through which the said road passes, any compensation for their services for the location of said road.

Sec. 3. The said John Phelps is hereby authorized to establish a ferry on Rock river, at the point on said river where the said road crosses the same; and the said ferry when so established, shall be governed by the same laws, rules and regulations as other ferries in this State are, and it shall be the duty of the county commissioners’ court of Jo Daviess county, annually, at the June term of said court, to fix the rates of ferriage across said river.2

Sec. 4. Leonard Roth and Joseph Brigham of Putnam county, and Michael Bartlett of Rock Island county, be, and they are hereby appointed commissioners to view and locate a State road from the Papaw Grove on the road leading from Chicago to Dixon’s ferry, running from said grove by the groves on the head-waters of Bureau River to the settlements at Dimick’s Grove on said stream, and from thence to Princeton, so as to best accommodate the inhabitants between those points, and from Princeton on

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the shortest and best route to the county seat of Rock Island county. The said commissioners, or a majority of them, shall meet at Princeton on or before the first day of June next, and after being duly sworn by some justice of the peace, proceed to locate said road, and make return as is provided in the second section of this act. The county commissioners’ court of Putnam and Rock Island counties may allow said commissioners such compensation as they deem just and proper.

This act to be in force from and after its passage.

Approved, Feb. 10, 1835.