Sec[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois represented in the General Assembly, That Ebenezer Alexander, William Langston, and Daniel Drake of Coles County, are hereby appointed commissioners to relocate, and establish that part of the state
road in coles County, that lies between John Waddle[’]s in said county, and Shelbyville; Commencing at, or near the House of said John Waddle[’]s and running thence on a straight line, about one hundred yards in a direction so
as to strike the north west corner of said Waddle[’]s land; thence west with the survey line, one mile and a quarter, thence in a direction
to intersect the Shelbyville road, at the timber about two and a half miles from said
Waddle[’]s.
Sec 2nd Said Commissioners, or a majority of them shall meet at said Waddle[’]s, on or before the first day of August next, and after being duly sworn, by some
Justice of the peace, to impartially survey and relocate said road, shall establish,
by running two furrows thirty feet apart from each other, so as to embrace the points
set forth in the first section of this act.
Sec 3. Said Commissioners shall make a return of their proceedings to the clerk
of the county Commissioners Court of Coles County correctly describing the alteration made in said road under their hands and seals
within thirty days
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after the action and completion of the same.
Sec 4 The county Commissioners Court of said county shall allow said Commissioners one dollar and fifty cents each, per day for the necessary
services by them rendered, in altering said road. And said court shall also allow the person employed by the Commissioners to run off the furrows
along said road, a reasonable compensation for the services rendered.
Sec 5. All acts, and parts of acts, coming within the purview of this act, are hereby
repealed. This act to be in force from, and after its passage.
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Handwritten Document, 4 page(s), Folder 53, HB 54, GA Session: 9-2,
Illinois State Archives (Springfield, IL) ,