Clinton in Macon County, thence to Waynesville in M^cLean County, thence by Eminence and Tremont to Pekin in Tazewell County.

Sec 2. Said Commissioners or a majority of them shall meet at the Town of Paris in the County of Edgar on the first Monday in June next or as soon thereafter as practicable, and proceed to view, mark, and lay out said road on the nearest and most eligible route, and in such manner as will best subserve the Public convenience by the points above named, first having taken an oath before some Justice of the peace of this State faithfully to observe the provisions of this act

Sec 3. Whenever said road shall be laid out as aforesaid, it shall be a State road; be opened four poles wide and be worked upon as other roads are in this State, and the same shall not be altered, changed[,] or turned out of its course under any pretence whatever, except by an act of the General Assembly

Sec. 4. Said Commissioners shall cause the route of the road aforesaid, when it shall pass through timbered lands to be properly marked on the trees and fix posts firmly driven in the ground, at the end of every quarter of a mile, and at the end of each mile; and when the same shall pass through prarie, by fixing posts along the route, and at the end of each mile by raising mounds of earth at least two feet in height, and three feet in diameter at the base. They shall keep field notes, and make plats of the route, and return the same to the Clerks of the County Commissioners Courts of each County through which said road shall pass, of that part of the road laid out in such County, duly certified by themAnd it shall be the duty of the County Commissioners Courts of each County in which said

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road shall be so laid out, to cause an entry to be made upon their records, of the same, and direct by an order the opening of the road four poles wide in their County, and to keep the same in repair as public roads in this in this State. And whenever so Opened the same shall be considered and deemed a public road, as other public roads, laid out in each County, to all intents and purposes

Sec. 5. All roads and parts of roads now established between any and all the points named, when the road hereby authorized shall not run thereon or vary from them shall be annulled and vacated, And the work shall be applied on the new State road unless in the opinion of the said County Commissioners the same is, or will be of public utility, in which case the same shall not be vacated, but kept open as a County road, and a Special entry of record shall be made by the Commissioners Court respecting the same

Sec 6, Should any of the Commissioners above named refuse to act or die, the County Commissioners Court in Session or any two of the members thereof, may appoint a third person to fill such vacancy in the County in which said vacancy may happen and an entry of record in said County of such appointment shall be made by said Court