An act to locate and establish a State Road from the Wabash River in Crawford County to Shelbyville in Shelby County.

Sec.[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois represented in the General Assembly, ThatJohn Gill of Crawford County & Joseph Glen of Coles County andJohn Stormof Shelby county be and they are hereby appointed Commissioners to view, survey[,] mark[,] and locate a road commencing at some point on the Wabash river in Crawford county to be determined by them or a majority of them with a view of the said road being extended in the State of Indiana to intersect the road leading from Louisville to Vincennes; Thence by the Town of Greenup in Coles County to Shelbyville in Shelby County, varying as little as practicable from a direct line between the said places, having in view the most eligible route its permanency and a due regard to public convenience.

Sec. 2. That the said Commissioners or a majority of them shall meet at Palestine in Crawford county on the first day ofApril next or within one month ^at some Convenient time^ thereafter and being first duly sworn before some Judge or Justice of the peace in this State faithfully to discharge the duties required of them by this act, shall proceed to make the necessary examinations and determine upon the place for the crossing ^of the^ said road across the Wabash river and after they shall have done so to view[,] survey, mark[,] and locate the route of said road ^through Palestine & Greenup^ to Shelbyville in Shelby county and as soon as practicable thereafter cause a plat of the survey of said road so viewed, marked[,] and located and certified by them to be filed in the Clerks office of the County Commissioners

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Court of the Counties of Crawford, Coles[,] and Shelby of that part of the road so located in in ^each^ of said counties and ^each of^ the clerks of the County Commissioners Court in said Counties shall file the same and lay said plat before the County Comm^rs Court at the next term thereafter, and the said Courts shall cause an entry thereof to be entered on their records, and the road so laid out and located is hereby declared a public State road and shall be opened and kept in repair four ^three^ rods wide in the same manner as other public roads are required by law.

Sec. 3. ^Each of^ The said Commissioners shall receive for their servicesone dollar & fifty centsper day for all the time necessarily necessarily employed in said service ^and^ together with a reasonable compensation for one surveyor, two chain carriers and a marker ^to^ shall be allowed by the County Commissioners Courts of the said Counties of Crawford, Coles[,] and Shelby; and it shall be the duty of ^the^ said Commissioners to make a certified statement of the time they were engaged, and also of the surveyor, chainmen and marker, and return the same with the plat to the Clerks of the said County Commissioners Courts.