Sec[Section] 1 Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois represented in the General Assembly, That James Stokes of Fayette County, William Cottingham of Montgomery County, an John Whitecraft of Sangamon, be and they are hereby appointed Commissioners to view, survey[,] and locate a State road from Vandalia

from point to point. And said Commissioners or a majority of them shall meet in the town of Valdalia on the first monday in May next, or within one month thereafter, and after taking an oath to perform the duties thereof, shall proceed to survey[,] mark[,] and locate said road. and where said road shall pass through prairies, said Commissioners shall cause to be set suitable posts for every half mile, and shall return to the County Commissioners Court of each County through which said road shall pass a plat of said road designating therein the courses and distances of said road, and said survey shall be filed and preserved in said Court.

Sec 2 Said road when located as aforesaid shall be a State road, and shall be opened and kept in repair as other State roads are. Said Commissioners shall receive each two dollars per day for every days service in laying out said road, which shall be paid by the Counties of Sangamon and Fayette in proportion to the distance said road shall pass through the said coun-

ewing of said road through Montgomery County.

Sec 3 That said Commissioners shall have a surveyor and two chain carriers, and they shall have the same compensation as the said Commissioners have, and shall be paid in like manner.

Sec 4 Be it further enacted, that if any one of the aforesaid Commissioners shall fail, or refuse to view and make said survey and location, then it shall be the duty of the County Commissioners Court of such County or Counties, to appoint some suitable person, or one in each County, if all should fail to comply with the requisitions of this act, to survey and locate said road, and said reviewer shall perform the duty required of the Commissioners appointed under this act, and shall receive the same compensation. Provided however, that no such appointment shall take place sooner than their June term and if the location shall not have been made a plat of said survey deposited with the clerk of the several County Commissioners Courts, then the appointment shall be made at the June term of the County Commissioners Courts.

Sec 5 And it is hereby made the duty of the County Commissioners Courts in the several Counties through which said road shall pass, at their June term, to appoint the necessary number of supervisors to open and keep

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said road in repair as other public roads are.