Sec[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois represented in the General Assembly; That John Ditter of Clay County, Thomas Sconce, of Coles County[] and Marcus Thomas of Iroquois County, be and they are hereby appointed Commissioners to view, mark, and locate a ^.7^ road from Fairfield in Wayne County via Maysville in Clay County via Greenup, Charleston through Richmond’s settlement in Coles County via Sydney in Champaign county via the county seat of Iroquois county, thence to intersect the Vincennes and Chicago State road in Iroquois county, in a direction to the town of Chicago in Cook County.

Sec 2. Said commissioners, or a majority of them, ^2^ shall meet, in the town of Fairfield in Wayne county, on the first monday in May next, or within three months thereafter, and after being first duly sworn before some acting Justice of the peace of Wayne County, faithfully to discharge the duties enjoined upon them by this act, shall proceed to view, mark[,] and locate said road, by settling stakes in the prarie, and blazes on trees in the timber; taking into consideration the public convenience, the nearest and most eligble route for a permanent location, doing at all times as little injury to private property as practicable.

Sec 3. Said Commissioners shall have power to employ a competent pilot and other persons, if necessary, to

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enable them to carry into effect the location of said road.

Sec 4. Said commissioners, within one month after having located said road, shall make a report in writing to the county commissioners courts of the respective counties through which said road shall pass, and said report so filed shall form a part of the records of said Courts.

Sec 5. The county commissioners of the several counties through which said road shall pass, shall allow to each viewer the sum of two dollars per day, in proportion to the distance in each county. And such other reasonable expenses as they shall deem just and right, to be paid out of the county treasuries in proportion to the distance said road shall pass through said counties.

Sec 6. When Said road is located the county commissioners of the several counties shall cause the same to be opened, and kept in repair as other state roads are. ^and that part as viewed and marked in Wayne County shall be a part of s^d[said] state road^

This act to be in force from and after its passage.