Sec[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois Represented in the General Assembly That Richard H Churchill and Walter Houston of M^cDonough County and Reason Redman of Warren County be and are hereby appointed Commissioners, to view, mark out and locate a state Road, to commence at Ma^cComb in M^cDonough County, running with the County road as near as practicable, to Section twenty one in Township, Seven north, in Range, four West, thence to Section Six in same Township, thence the nearest and most eligible route to the Mississippi River in Warren County opposite the Town of Burlington in Wisconsin Territory.

Sec 2. The Commissioners aforesaid or a majority of them shall meet at Macomb on the first Monday in May next or, in three months thereafter, and before entering on the duties assigned “assigned” them by this act. Shall take an oath before some Justice of the peace faithfully and impartially, to locate said Road, keeping in view the shortness of the route, and the eligibility of the ground, so as to make the same a permanent Road.

Sec. 3. The said Commissioners so soon as they shall have completed said work shall make out a map under their hands with the courses, distances, streams, notable places with such estimates and remarks, as they shall deem interesting, and return the same to the County Commissioners Court of each County through which the same shall pass, of the

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portion lying and being in each County which shall be recorded at length in said Courts

Sec. 4. The map and report, being filed, in pursuance of the third section of this act, the whole bill of expenses shall be made out and presented to the County Commissioners Court of the Counties of M^cDonough and warren, who shall make an allowance therefor, for the sums severally due, allowing the Commissioners and each necessary hand employed, a liberal compensation, the expenses of which, shall be equally paid by said Counties, in proportion to the extent of the road in the same

Sec. 5 The County Commissioners Courts of the aforesaid Counties, shall cause the said road to be opened, so soon as practicable, worked and kept in repair, as other state roads are