Sec[Section] 1 Be it enacted by the people of the state of Illinois represented in the General Assembly, That Erastus Deniston of Mercer County Ephraim Gilmer of Warren County and John Gum of Knox County be, and they are hereby appointed commissioners to view mark and locate a state road from Knoxville in Knox County the nearest and best route to New Boston on the Mississippi River in Mercer County. The said commissioners or a majority of them shall meet in Knoxville on the first monday of June next or within three months thereafter; and after being duly sworn before some justice of the peace faithfully to discharge the duties required of them by this act, shall proceed to locate said road wherein provided for, by placing substantial stakes in the ground in the prarie and marking the trees through the timber. and said commissioners shall on or before the first day of September next make a return of the location of said road designating the important points through which the same is located, to the county commissioners courts of the several counties through which the same shall pass which return shall be entered upon the records and filed in the clerks’ office; and said road shall be

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a public and state road and opened and kept in repair as other public roads.

Se[Section] 2 The said commissioners shall receive such compensation for their services as the commissioners’ Court of the counties through which said road shall pass may deem just and reasonable to be paid of out of the several county treasuries

Sec 3 The County commissioners’ Court of MercerCounty and Knox counties may at any time they shall agree upon have said road surveyed and plats thereof filed in the several clerks’ offices of the county commissioners’ Courts through which said road may pass.