Sec[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois Represented in the General Assembly that George Parks of Shelby County[,] William Jeremiah of Champaign County[,] and Jonathan Wright of Iroquois County be and they are hereby appointed Commissioners, to view[,] Survey[,] and locate a State Road from Shelbyville in Shelby county through Urbana in Champaign County thence to the head branches of the Vermilion River thence along the high prarie[prairie] on the west side of Spring creek, thence to Plato in Iroquois County, thence down the Iroquois River to the Kankakee, and from thence to fall into the State Road leading from Danville to Chicago in the nearest and best way to Chicago

Sec. 2. The said Commissioners or a majority of them shall meet at Shelbyville on the first Monday of May next or within three months thereafter who after being duly sworn before some Justice of the ^Peace^ of said County, faithfully to observe the provisions of this act, shall proceed to view, and locate said Road, taking into consideration the local situation of the Country and the public convenience, and shall fix said Road on the most advantageous ground for a permanent Road, and the said Commissioners shall on or before the first day of September next make or cause to be made, a true Survey and maps of said road, signed by them in the Counties respectively through which said Road passes, which road when laid out as aforesaid shall be deemed and considered a public State Road, and the County Commissioners Courts of the Counties

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through which the said road is located shall appoint supervisors and the cause the same to ^be^ opened four poles wide and to be worked and kept in repair as other public roads are

Sec 2 3. The Commissioners appointed in the first Section of this act shall receive for their Services a just compensation not exceeding Two dollars pr.[per] day out of the funds of the Counties respectively ^in^ which they reside