Sec[Section] 1. Be it Enacted by the people of the State of Illinois represented in the General Assembly, That William Metz of Calhoun County[,] Nathan W Jones of Pike county and Cornelius Vandeventer of Schuyler county, be and they are hereby appointed commissioners to view mark and lay out a State Road from Gilead in Calhoun County thence on the nearest and best rout to Pittsfield and Griggsville in Pike County Legrange in Schuyler County, thence on the nearest and best ground to Rushville in said County, doing as little injury to private property as the Public good will permit

Sec. 2. That said commissioners shall meet at Gilead on the first monday in March next (or within Sixty days there after and after being duly sworn before some Justice of the peace or clerk of the circuit court well and truly, to perform the duties required of them by this act, according to the best of their skill and abilities, they shall proceed to the place of beginning, and view mark and Lay out said road, agreeable to the provisions of the first section fo this act.

Sec. 3. That so soon as said road may be Located the said commissioner shall make out a complete report of all the principal points and noteable places which the same my pass in each County and it shall be the duty of said Commissioners to return to the Clerks of the county commissioners courts in each county.

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Such report of that portion of said road as is Situate in their respective Counties and it shall be the duty of said clerks respectively to Lay said reports before the county commissioners Courts at their next term whose duty it shall be to cause the same to be recorded in the records of said court and said Road to be opened and kept in good repair accordingly

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The said commissioners shall each receive such compensation for their services out of the county treasury of their respective counties as the county commissioners courts may order and allow.