Be it enacted by the people of the state of Illinois Represented in the General Assembly. That the unexpended balance of an appropriation, from the proceeds of the Ohio Saline lands for the improvement of the navigation of the Saline Creek, authorized by an act entitled an “act concerning the Saline Reserves, a Penitentiary and the improvement of certain navigable streams” approved Feb. 15. [182?] ^8^ 1827. And the unexpended balance of certain appropria^9^2 tions authorized and named in an act entitled “an ac[t] to explain the act and amend an ^the^ act” the titled of which is hereinbefore recited, approved March 2^d 1833,3 be and the said balance or balances are hereby directed to be laid ^out^ in the manner following, to wit, if it shall appear that ^14^ there is an unexpended balance in the premises of six^16^teen hundred dollars then six hundred dollars for the improvement of Fords’ Road leading from Equality the Ohio River to Equality, the improvement to be commenced at the Ohio and continue toward Equality. said appropriation to be expended under the direction of Stokely, T H. Spencer, ^and^ Edward Leavell who are hereby appointed Commissioners for that purpose. two hundred dollars for the improvements of the Road leading from Equality to Vienna and Jonesboro; to be expended under the direction of Jesse E. Rude[,] Levi M. Walston, ^and^ William Hutchison. ^jun.^ who are hereby appointed Commissioners for that purpose; two hundred dollars for the improvement of the road leading from Equality to the settlement in Gallatin County known by the name of South America, to be expended under the direction of Edward Baker, Jas. Furgeson, ^and W^m Bolin^ with reference first to the improvement of that portion of said road lying in the horse Swamp; who are hereby authorised appointed Commissioners for that purpose; two hundred dollars for the improvement of the road leading from Shawneetown to M^cCleansboro through Cypress, to be expended under the direction of Hugh Bradly, James Dillard sen. and John Crofford who are hereby appointed Commissioners for that purpose; the sum of two hundred dollars for the improvement of the road leading from Shawneetown to M^cCleansboro through the nettle bottom to be expended under the direction of

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of W^m M^cCoy, Henry Mills, and James Barker who are hereby appointed Commissioners for that purpose; two hundred ^dollars^ for the improvement of the road leading from Shawneetown to New-Haven through the Ohio and Wabash bottoms, to be expended under the direction of Thos. Sadmore, John Boyer and Hiram Hooker. who are hereby appointed commissioners for that purpose

Sec. 2. If the balance hereinbefore mentioned has not been realized and shall not be, then whatever sum has been or shall be realized for the benefit of Gallatin Cou[n]ty under the laws, the titles of which are hereinbefore recited shall be appropriated upon the basis of the appropriations hereinbefore made, each appropriation bearing a proportionate reduction.

Sec. 3^d The Commissioners herein appointed shall before they enter upon the duties of their offices enter into bond with approved security to the Clerk of the County Commissioners Court of the proper County for the benefit and use of the people of said County in the sum they are respectively authorized to expend by this act Conditioned for the faithful use and application of the funds (herein contemplated, which that shall come to their hands. And the Clerk of said Commissioners upon producing the certific to the Commissioner of the Ohio salines a certificate from the Clerk of the County Commissioners Court of the proper County that they have entered into bond in the manner directed by this act, shall be sufficient warrant and authority for him to pay over to said Commissioners the sums subject to their expenditure under this act, as the same shall be^come available^ subject to damages under this act. provided allways that the receipts of said Commissioners sh[all] be a sufficient voucher for the payment of the monies authorized under this act.