Sec.[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois Represented in the General Assembly: That John G. Purvis of Shelby County[,] John Whetstone of Coles County[,] and Absalom Easton of Jasper County be and are hereby appointed Commissioners to view, mark, and locate a State Road from Newton in Jasper County via Muddy point, Wabash point, Essex, Nelson, the Bridge on Sangamon River at Allen[’]s and Read[’]s Mills, to Decatur in Macon County

Sec 2. The Commissioners aforesaid or a majority of them shall meet at the Town of Newton on the first day of April next or within three months thereafter. And after having been sworn by some Justice of the peace to faithfully and impartially discharge the duties required of them by this act, shall proceed to view[,] mark[,] and locate said road, keeping in view the shortness of the route, 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 major plat of said Road giving the courses, distances, streams, notable places &c.[etc.] to be lodged with the Clerk of the County Commissioners Courts in the several Counties through which the said road may pass, of that portion, lying and being, in each County which shall be recorded at length in the Books of said Courts

Sec 4. The County Commissioners Courts of the several Counties through which the said Road may pass shall

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allow the said Commissioners a reasonable compensation for their services in proportion to the length of said road in the several Counties through which it may pass, and the said County Commissioners shall cause said road to be opened and kept in repair in the same manner as other state roads