Sec[Section] 1 Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois represented in the General Assembly, That Johnathan Piper, James A Collins, of Pike County, and Joshua Hanks of Green County, be and they are hereby appointed Commissioners to view, mark, and lay out a State road from Griggsville, via Portland in Pike County, to Joshua Hanks in Green County.

Sec 2 Said Commissioners or a major part of them shall meet at Griggsville on the first monday of April next or within Sixty days thereafter and after being duly sworn before some Justice of the Peace of said Pike County, well and truly to perform the duties required of them by this act according to the best of their skill and abilities. They shall proceed to view, mark, and lay out said road agreeable to the first Section of this act, locating said Road on the nearest and most practicable route

Sec 3 Said Commissioners are authorised to employ a Surveyor and necessary Chainman to assist in locating said road, and shall make reports of all the principle points together with a platt, and Survey thereof, Certified by said Surveyor; and file the same with the clerks of the County Commissioners Courts, through which any part of said road may pass, within thirty days after having located the same, which report shall be laid before the several

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County Commissioners Courts at their next term by their Clerk; whose duty it shall be to cause the same to be recorded in the records of said Court; And Said road shall be opened and kept in repair as other State roads are.

Sec 4 Said Commissioners, Surveyor[,] and Chain Carriers shall receive such compensation for their services, not exceeding Two dollars per day, as the Commissioners Courts of the Counties through which said road shall pass, may deem just; to be paid out of the Treasuries of Said Counties.