Sec.[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois represented in the General Assembly, that Joseph Ross and Carl0s Sattin of the County of Kane and William Munson of the County of LaSalle, be, and they are hereby appointed Commissioners to view, mark, survey[,] and locate a State Road from Ottawa in LaSalle County aforesaid, in a northerly direction to the State line, by the way of the Town of
Munson, the east end of Shabaneys Grove, the south timber on Sycamore, and [McCallums?] Point. Said Commissioners or a majority of them shall meet at the Town of Ottawa aforesaid on the second Monday of April next or some day thereafter, and after being
duly sworn by some Justice of the Peace faithfully to discharge the duties required
of them by this act; shall proceed to view, mark, survey[,] and locate said road, having a due regard to the convenience of the public and the
permanency of the road.
Sec. 2. Said Commissioners, within thirty days after having located said road, shall
make a report in writing to the County Commissioners Courts of the respective Counties through which said road shall pass; said report shall
form a part of the records of said Courts, and the same thus laid out shall be a public highway of this State; and the County Commissioners Courts of such 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.
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Sec. 3. The County Commissioners Courts of the Counties through which said Road shall pass, shall allow to said Commissioners,
a surveyor & chain-carriers & others rendering service, to be paid out of their County1 treasuries equally, a reasonable compensation.
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Handwritten Document, 4 page(s), Folder 99, HB 105, GA Session 10-1, Illinois State Archives (Springfield, IL) ,