An Act to establish the State Roads hereinafter named.

Section 1^st Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That the public Road as now travelled from Edwardsville in the County of Madison, to Alton, and from thence to Carrolton and Whitehall in Green County be and the same is hereby declared a State Road, and to be improved and kept in repair as other State Roads.

Sec[Section] 2^d That Philip Jarboe ^&^ Job Collins of Green county, and Joseph. H. Goodwin of Pike County, be and they are hereby appointed Commissioners for the purpose of locating, surveying[,] and establishing a State Road from Whitehall in Green County to Pittsfield in Pike County; to commence at Whitehall, thence to Wilmington, thence to Bridgeport, and from thence to Pittsfield, and to terminate, at the place where the State Road from Quincy in Adams County to Quincy Pittsfield in Pike County now terminates, and so as to unite with the same. Said Commissioners shall meet in the Town of Whitehall at the Hotel in that place, on the first Monday of May next, or within sixty days thereafter, and after being duly sworn by some Officer authorised by law to administer oaths, to discharge the trust hereby reposed in them, faithfully and impartially, shall proceed to locate, survey[,] and establish the Road aforesaid, on the best and most suitable ground for the same, taking into view, the accomodation of travellers, and the Citizens generally, and where said road shall run thro prairies, they shall drive stakes firmly

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in the ground; and thro the timber shall mark the trees with three hacks on each side, so that the whole route shall be plainly designated, and after they shall have completed the same; they shall make a Report of their doings to be signed by said Commissioners; and a copy thereof, and a copy of the survey, and field notes, of said Road shall be filed in the Office of the clerk of the County Commissioners Court of Green County; and also of Pike County among the records of those Courts; and all questions relating to the location of said Road, shall be determined, from the returns of the commissioners filed of Record as aforesaid; said road shall be laid out four poles wide; on the firmest and best ground; to do as little injury as possible to private property; it shall not run thro any garden or orchard, or any plantation of trees, either for use or ornament, planted out by any individual whomsoever, without the consent of such individual.

Sec 3^d That Levi Ruder, and George W. Allen of the County of Green, be and they are hereby appointed commissioners, to locate, survey[,] and establish a State Road in the County of Green, as follows, beginning at Whitehall; from thence to Greenfield, by Manley’s mill on Apple creek; from thence to Fayette; so as to unite with the road leading from Carlinville in Macoupin County, to Carrolton in Green County. Said Commissioners shall meet at the hotel in the Town of Whitehall, on or before the first Monday of May next, or within sixty days thereafter, and after being sworn by some magistrate of Green County authorised by law to administer oaths; to execute the duties imposed on them by this Act faithfully and impartially; shall proceed to lay out said Road, by locating, surveying[,]

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and establishing the same four poles wide, on the firmest and best ground for the same; and when said Road shall run thro prairies, they shall drive stakes firmly in the ground; and plainly mark or blaze the trees where the same may run thro timber, so as the route shall be plainly designated: said road to be so located, as to combine as far possible the accomodation of travellers, with the Interest of the Citizens generally: to do as little injury as possible to private property, and avoiding gardens, orchards[,] and plantations of trees for use or ornament, unless the consent of the owner can be first had and obtained. And the said Commissioners, shall after they have completed the location of said Road, make a full Report of their doings, and sign the same, and file a Copy, and also a survey and field notes of said road, in the Clerk’s Office of the County commissioners court of Green County, with the Records of said Court; and all questions relating to the location of said Road shall be determined from the report[,] survey[,] and field notes aforesaid.

Section 4^th The several Commissioners appointed by this Act, shall be entitled to a reasonable compensation for their services, not exceeding the sum of two dollars per day each, to be allowed said Commissioners by the County Commissioners Court of the county, in which each of the aforesaid Commissioners may reside; and when audited and allowed, shall be paid on the order of the said County Commissioners courts, out of their respective county Treasuries.

Section 5 t this act to take effect from & after the the first day of May next.