Sec[Section] 1 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois represented in the General Assembly; That John S. Davis and Abraham Romine Ser be appointed commissioners to review, relocate and resurvey so much of the state road leading from Vandalia to Golconda established in 1823 ^1^ as lies between Hardy Foster’s ^the bridge on the East fork of the Kaskaskia now being constructed^ in the County of Marion and John Myers’ in the said county of Marion so as to pass by Salem the seat of Justice thereof.

^2^ Sec 2 The Commissioners aforesaid or a majority of them shall meet at Hardy Foster’s on the first day of June next, or within sixty days thereafter and before entering on the duties assigned them by this act, shall take an oath before some justice of the peace, faithfully and impartially to locate said road keeping in view the shortness of the route and the eligibility of the ground so as to make the same a permanent road.

Sec 3 The said commissioners, so soon as they shall have completed said work shall make a report thereof under their hands, and return the same to the county commissioners’ Courts of the said County of Marion.

Sec 4 When said report shall be filed in the office of the Clerk of the County Commissioners’ Court of the said County of Marion. The whole bill of expenses of commissioners and all other necessary persons employed shall be made out and presented to said County Commissioners’ Court, who shall make an allowance therefor for the sums severally due; allowing the commissioners one dollar and fifty cents each, and all other persons necessarily employed seventy five cents per day each.

Sec 5 The said County Commissioners Court of Marion shall cause the said road to be opened four poles wide so soon as practicable and kept in repair to the best advantage.

Sec 6 That the appropriation of one hundred dollars for building a bridge across Crooked creek and the East fork of the Kaskaskia River on the State road leading from Vandalia to Golconda, made by the law “appropriating a portion of the avails arising from the sale of Saline lands in Gallatin County to internal improvement,” be and the same is hereby removed ^8^ and appropriated to the building and construction

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of a bridges across the said streams at the [?] points where the new State road contemplated in this act may pass the same: ^And that part of the said State road which must be changed in order for the same to pass the aforesaid bridge, be and the same is^ hereby declared a state road and shall be worked upon and kept in repair as such.

Sec 7. The County commissioners respectively of the counties of Marion and Clay are hereby vested with power and authority to enter or cause to be entered for the use of the people of their respective counties with the commissioner of Gallatin County Saline lands, any quantity of land at the minimum price and in legal subdivisions, amounting to a sum not exceeding their respective appropriations made to them by the law aforesaid: Provided, that the land or the proceeds thereof, be specifically appropriated to the objects contemplated in the law aforesaid and none other.