Sec[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the people of the state of Illinois Represented in the General Assembly
That Michael Crane of Warren County[,] Louis R. Chaffin of Hancock County and John Hardystie of M^cDonough County be, and they are hereby appointed Commissioners, to view[,] Survey[,] mark[,] and locate, a State, Road from Shokokon in Warren County on the nearest and best route to La Harpe, in Hancock County, and from thence, on the nearest and best route to Rushville, Schuyler County or untill it intersects the Rushville and Fountain Green State Road, at or near Samuel Hunts in M^cDonough County having in view, its permanency, and doing as little injury to private property, as the public good will permit

Sec 2. The said Commissioners or a majority of them shall meet at Shokokon, on the first Monday of April next or within three Months thereafter, and after being duly sworn before some Justice of the peace, well and truly, to perform the duties required of them, by this act, shall proceed to view[,] Survey, mark[,] and locate said Road, designating the route by setting stakes in the prarie, and mark on the trees in the timber, and shall make a report, of the location of said road, giving the most noted points thereon

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and return a copy of said ^report^ to the Clerk of the County Commissioners Court of each of said Counties, through which the said Road shall pass, which shall be filed by him in his Office, and said road thus laid out, 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

Sec. 3. The County Commissioners Courts of the respective Counties shall cause to be paid to the said road Commissioners, and such hands as the said Commissioners, may find it necessary to employ in viewing, surveying[,] marking, and locating said Road such compensation out of the County Treasury as they may deem reasonable each County to bear her proportionate part of the expense, according to the distance said Road may pass through the same.