Sec.[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois Represented in the General Assembly That Clark Nichols[,] James C. Hilibert[,] and Isaac P. Dougherty be and they are hereby appointed Commissioners, to view and locate a State Road from
the Town of Darwin in Clark County to New Richmond in the Same County
Sec 2. Said Commissioners or a majority of them shall meet at the said Town of Darwin on the first Monday of March next, or within ninety days thereafter and after being
duly sworn before some Justice of the Peace of said County, faithfully and impartially to discharge the duties of such Commissioners as by this
act directed, shall proceed to survey, mark[,] and locate said road, beginning at the Town of Darwin aforesaid, thence to Auburn, and New Richmond on the best and most practicable route
Sec 3. Said Commissioners shall blaze trees through the timbered land, and set up stakes
on said route where the same runs through the prairie, and at the termination of each
mile, shall set up a post or stone marking thereon the number of miles from the place
of beginning
Sec 4. Said Road shall be laid out four poles wide and shall be opened and kept in repair
as other State Roads
Sec 5. The said Commissioners shall within ten days after completing such survey as
aforesaid cause a map or plat of said road, with its courses and distances to be filed
in the Office of the Clerk of the County Commissioners Court of Clark County And the County Commissioners Court of said County shall allow said Commissioners such Compensation, as shall be just and equitable
for their trouble and expenses
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1These legislators formed a select committee in the Senate that considered the bill.
Illinois Senate Journal. 1836. 10th G. A., 1st sess., 370.
Handwritten Document, 2 page(s), Folder 92, HB 97, GA Session 10-1, Illinois State Archives (Springfield, IL) ,