Sec[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the people of the state of Illinois, represented in the General AssemblyMarvin Tryonof Hancock County, and Daniel Babbit of Fulton County, and Thomas Phillips of Peoria County, be, and they are hereby appointed Commissioners, to view, mark, and locate a road by setting stakes in the prairies, sufficiently close as to be easily followed, and marking the trees in the timber from Commerce in Hancock County the nearest and best route to the town of Franklin in said county thence to some eligible crossing on Spoon River in a direction to Farmington in Fulton County thence to Peoria, in Peoria County; having in view its permanency, doing as little private injury as the public good will permit.

Sec 2^d. The said Commissioners shall meet on the first monday in march next or as soon thereafter as practicable at the Town of Commerce in Hancock County, and after being duly sworn before some Justice of the peace, faithfully to discharge the duties required of them by this act, shall proceed view and locate said road, designating the route by setting stakes prairie, and marks on the trees in the timber. and shall make a report of the location of said road giving the most noted points thereon, and return a copy of said report, to the clerk of the County Commissioners Court of each of said Counties, which shall be by him filed in his office; and said road thus laid out

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shall be and is hereby declared a public state road, and shall be opened, and kept in repair in the same manner as other public roads are

Sec 3^rd The said commissioners or a majority of them shall be authorized to proceed and lay out said road as required by this act, and call to their assistance, such other help as may be necessary for the location of the same, and the County Commissioners Court of each County through which the same may pass, shall allow said Commissioners, and such other hands as they may employ to assist them, a sum not exceeding one dollar and fifty cents each for every day necessarily employed in locating said road; to be paid out of the County treasury of each County according to the distance said road may ^pass^ through the same. When said Commissioners shall have filed a copy of the report as is recited in this Act duly certified and attested by them