Section 1^st Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois represented in the General Assembly: that Capt Daniel Matheny of Schuyler County, and William Abernathy of Hancock County, be and they are hereby appointed Commissioners, to view, mark and locate a State Road, to commence at Rushville in Schuyler County, thence on the nearest and best rout to Warsaw, in Hancock County.

Sec[Section] 2^d The said Commissioners shall meet at Rushville, on the first Monday in the month of June next, or within three months thereafter; and after being sworn by some Justice of the Peace, faithfully to discharge the duties required by this Act, shall proceed to view, mark, and locate said Road, from point to point, as directed by the first Section of this Act, upon the nearest and best rout, avoiding as much, as is practicable any injury to farms, improvements, and private perop property, on said rout; and make and return to the County Commissioners Court, of each County through which said road shall pass, a certified report, of said road; describing as nearly as practicable the rout, and distance of said road; which shall be filed with the several Clerks of the County Commissioners Courts, through which said road shall pass, within one month after said Road is, or shall have been located; and said Road when so located shall be deemed a State Road, and kept in repair as other State Roads are.

Sec 3^d The County Commissioners Courts may, of each County through which said Road may pass, in their discretion allow to said Commissioners appointed under this Act, a sum, not exceeding, one Dollar and fifty cents per day, for each day necessarily employed by them in the discharge of the duties assigned them by this Act; to be paid out of the County treasurie[s] of each County, through which said Road shall be[...?] located, in proportion to the extent of said Road therein.

Sec 4^th The County Commissioners Courts, of ^the^ said Counties through ^which^ said Road may pass, may if they think proper cause said Road Commissioners, appointed by this Act, to have

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said Road surveyed; and plats thereof to be filed in the Clerk’s Office of the County Commissioners Courts of Schuyler County, and Hancock Countys the expense thereof to be paid in the manner and proportion, as provided by the third Section of this Act.