Sec[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, Represented in the General Assembly. That Roland Simmons, of Warren county Job Babot and Nathaniel B. Childs of Fulton County be and they are hereby appointed Commissioners to view, mark[,] and locate a road from a point on the Mississippi River opposite Burlington by the way of Greenfield in Warren County[,] Augustine, Smithfield[,] and Troy to Farmington in Fulton County.

Sec 2. Said Commissioners shall meet in Farmington on the first Monday in April next or as soon thereafter as they conveniently can, and after being first duly sworn before some Justice of the Peace faithfully to discharge the duties required of them by this act, shall proceed to view, mark, locate[,] and survey said Road, doing as little injury to private property as the public good will permit and at the end of each mile they shall set a post of durable timber and inscribe thereon in legible figures the no: of miles from the place of beginning.

Sec 3. Said Commissioners shall on or before the first Monday in July next make a Map or plat of said road (describing particularly the course and distances thereon) which lies in the respective Counties and transmit the same to each of the Clerks of the County Commissioners Courts respectively, to be by him filed in his office, and preserved.

Sec 4. The County Commissioners Court of the respective Counties shall cause to be paid to the said road Commissioners and such hands as the said Commissioners may find it necessary to employ in marking and Surveying said road such compensation out of the County Treasury as they May deem reasonable to be paid out of said County Treasuries in proportion to the extent of said Road in each County.

Sec 5. When said road shall be thus located it sha[ll be] deemed

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a State Road four poles wide, and shall be opened and kept in repair as other public Highways are.