Sect[Section] 1^st Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois represented in the General assembly, ^3^ That Joseph Davis of Vermillion county: [William Vose?] of Champaign County; and James. A. Piatt of Macon county1, be and they are hereby appointed Commissioners, to view, survey, and locate a State road, commencing at Danville in Vermillion County, thence on the best, and most eligible route to Sidney in Champaign County, from thence in like manner to Decatur in Macon County, at which best place said Road is to terminate. Said commissioners or a majority of them shall meet on or before the first Monday of June next or in three months thereafter in the town of Danville and after being sworn by some oficer authorised to administer oaths according to law, faithfully and impartially to perform their duties agreeable to the meaning ^19^ and intention of this acts shall proceed, with the aid of a county surveyor of one of the counties aforesaid, to view, survey[,] and locate, the road aforesaid, on the best ground, and on the most eligible route for the same, taking into consideration the accommodation of travellers, and the citizens of the counties aforesaid. And they Shall designate the whole route, by driving firmly in the ground stakes through the Prairie, and by marking the trees through the timber, by three hacks on both sides of each tree they shall mark to designate such Road: And said

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Commissioners shall on or before the first day of September next, file in the office of the clerk of the county Commissioners Court of each of the counties through which said road shall run, a copy of the survey of said road, together with a copy of the field notes of the County Surveyor, and a return or report of their doings, which said survey, field notes, and Report shall be filed by each of said Clerks respectively, in his office as a public Record of said Road, and the doings of said commissioners in the premises.

Sect 2^nd Said Commissioners shall each of them receive a compensation at the rate of two Dollars each per day, to be paid out of the county treasuries of the several Counties, through which said road shal pass; to be paid on the order of the County Commissioners Courts of said counties respectively as a full compensation for their servises.