Sec.[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That John Wren, Benjamin Charles, Ransalaer Wells and John Green, of Schuyler county, be and they are hereby appointed commissioners to review, mark, and relocate so much of two State roads in Schuyler county, which run from Rushville, in said county, one of which runs from Macomb in McDonough county. The other to commence in Hancock county, both of which roads as now located, run from Rushville to the middle of the South line of section twenty two, in township three north, of range two west, nearly together.2 Said commissioners are hereby authorised to review and relocate that portion of said roads running between the points above specified in said county of Schuyler, and if practicable, to locate the same on the same ground, from Rushville to the middle of the south line of section twenty-two aforesaid, or so far thereon as a due regard to public convenience in the directions of said roads may require.

Sec. 2. Said commissioners shall meet on the first Monday in May next, or so soon thereafter as practicable, at Rushville, in Schuyler county, and after being duly sworn before some justice of the peace, faithfully to discharge the duties required of them by this act, shall proceed to review, mark, and relocate said roads, so far as they are authorised by the provisions of this act, and as soon as practicable thereafter cause to be made out a report of the location of said road, designating the most noted points and to designate how far the said two roads above specified in the first section of this act, runs upon the same ground, and return a copy of the same to the clerks of the county commissioners’ court of said county of Schuyler,

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and said road when so relocated and laid out, shall be and is hereby declared a state road, and shall be opened and kept in repair in the same manner as other public roads are.

Sec. 3. Said commissioners, or a majority of them, shall be authorised to proceed and relocate said roads, as required by this act, and call to their assistance such other help as may be necessary for the location of the same, and the county commissioners of said county shall allow said commissioners and said other hands as they may necessarily employ to assist them, a sum not exceeding one dollar and fifty cents for every day necessarily employed in relocating said roads, to be paid out of the county treasury of said county: Provided: that if said commissioners shall locate on said review both of said roads between the points above designated in the first section of this act, then and in that case, so much of the said road from Rushville to Macomb, and so much of said road from Rushville to Commerce as the same are now located, shall be deemed, taken to be, and the same are hereby vacated.3

Approved 2d March, 1837.