An act to locate a State road from Liberty [to Pinckneyville.] Be it enacted by the people of the state of Illinois [repre]sented in the General Assembly, that [Harvey] Clendinnen of Randolph county[,] Richard [Bradley] of Jackson County and James [Crane] [of Perry County] be and they are hereby appointed commiss[ioners] to view[,] mark[,] survey and locate [a state road?] from Liberty in [Randolph County]to Pinckneyville in Perry county. said Comm[issioners or] a majority of them shall meet at the town of [Liberty] on the first monday in May next or within six[ty days] 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 sa[id] [?] by the nearest and most convenient [?] private property as possible.

Sec[Section] 2. Said Commissioners within thirty days [after hav]ing located said road shall make a report [in] writing to the County Commissioners courts of [the] respective courts Counties through which said [road] shall pass, ^&^ said report shall form a part of [the records] of saidCourts and said road thus laid out [shall be] a public highway of [this state, and the] County Commissioners Courts of [each County]

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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. 3. The County Commissioners Courts of the counties through which the said shall road may pass shall allow to said Commissioners (surveyor and Chain carriers) a reasonable Compensation for the services, to be paid out of the County treasuries of the Counties through which said road may pass, according to the extent of said road through each county [?] employed on the road in each County.