Sec[Section] 1 Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois represented in the Genera[l] Assembly, That Charles Reed of the County of Will, Reuben Critchfield of the County of Iroquois, and ^David Dunham^ Henry Madden of the County of Kane, be and they are hereby appointed Commissioners, to view, Survey, mark, and locate a State Road from the Indiana State line at a point on said State line where State Roads from Warren and Jasper Counties unite, by the way of the County seat of Iroquois County, Winchester, Juliet, Geneva, Sycamore, Murray and Gault Mill, on the South Branch of Kishwakee, and Winnebago to the State line at or near Rock Grove in direction towards Mineral Point, having in view the most direct and eligible route for its permanency and a due regard to the public convenience.

Sec 2 Said Commissioners, or a majority of them, shall meet at the house of Isaac Courtright in said Iroquois County on the first Monday in April next or as soon thereafter a practicable, and after being duly sworn by some Justice of the Peace, Shall proceed to perform the duties required of them by this act.

Sec 3 Said Commissioners, shall, as soon as convenient after having located said road, make a report in writing to the County Commissioners Courts of the respective Counties through which said road shall pass; said report

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shall form a part of the records of said Courts, and said road thus laid out shall be a public highway of this State; and the County Commissioners Courts of each County through which the said road may pass, shall cause the same to be opened, and kept in repair as other state roads are required to be by law.

Sec 4 The county Commissioners Courts of the Counties through which said road shall pass, shall allow to said Commissioners, a surveyor[,] and chain carriers, a reasonable compensation for their services, to be paid out of the County treasuries of the respective Counties in proportion to the distance said road may pass through the same.