Sec[Section] 1 Be it enacted by the people of the state of Illinois represented in the General Assembly, That J M Herd and John Harvel of the County of Green, and James Webb, of the County of Madison, be and they are hereby appointed Commissioners to view, mark out and locate a state road from the Mississippi river in the County of Green to Wood river in such manner as to meet and fall in with the road from Vandalia to Alton where said road crosses or will cross said river; commencing said road upon the Mississippi river as near the middle of the sixteenth section ^Town[Township] 6 North 12 West,^ as possible, and from thence running in as short and direct a manner as may be convenient to said termination upon Wood river where the road from Vandalia to Alton crosses or such other place as said Commissioners may think proper, doing as little injury to private property as a due regard of public good will permit

Sec 2 Said Commissioners or a majority of them shall meet at Grafton on the First day of September next or within sixty days thereafter, and after being duly sworn before some Justice of the Peace well and truly to perform the duties required of them by this act, according to the best of their skill and ability, they shall proceed to view, mark, and lay out said road agreeably, to the provisions of the first section of this act

Sec 3 As soon as said road is located the said Commissioners shall make out two compte maps or plats

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of said road so viewed, marked out, and located by them and after certifying the correctness of said maps or plats, shall deposite one of them with the Clerk of the county Commissioners Court of Green County, and the other with the Clerk of the county Commissioners Court of Madison County, and the Clerks aforesaid shall cause said plat or survey to be laid before the County Commissioners Courts of their respective Counties, at the first session of said Courts after the reception of said plats by the Clerks aforesaid: and the said Commissioners shall cause an entry to be made thereof on their records, and the said road so located is hereby declared a public road. The County Commissioners of said Counties shall cause said road to be opened at least three rods wide, and kept in repair in the same manner as other public roads by law are required to be

Sec. 4 The said Commissioners and their necessary attendants shall receive such compensation for their services out of their respective County Treasuries as the County Commissioners of said County may deem reasonable and allow.