Sec[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois Represented in the General Assembly That John J. Page, Peter Parker, and Jeremiah Banning of the County of Shelby be, and are hereby appointed Commissioners to view, survey[,] and locate a State Road to commence at Shelbyville in Shelby County running South to the County line of Fayette County.

Sec 2. The Commissioners aforesaid or a majority of them shall meet at Shelbyville on the first monday in april next or within three months thereafter, and before entering on the duties 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 the County of Shelby which shall be recorded at length in said Court

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

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Commissioners Court of Shelby County who shall make an allowance for the sums severally due allowing the Commissioners and each necessary hand employed a reasonable compensation, the expenses of which shall be paid of out of the County Treasury of Shelby County

Sec. 5. The County Commissioners Court of Shelby County shall cause the said road to be Opened, so soon as practicable, worked and kept in repair to the best advantage