Sec.[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly That Timothy Atwood ^Elias Thompson^ and Augustus Langworthy of Putnam County, and Hiram Cleveland of Peoria County be, and they are hereby appointed commissioners to view, mark, and locate a road from the intersection of the county road from the village of Rome to Peoria, in Peoria County, with the Peoria and Galena State road, on Section 27, Township ten North of the Base line, of Range Eight East of the fourth principal meridian in said County, by Rome and Chillicothe in Peoria, and Windsor in Putnam county, to Princeton in the same county, varying as little, as practicable from a direct line, from point to point, having in view the most eligible route, its permanency, and due regard to the public convenience.

Sec. 2. That said Commissioners, or a majority of them, shall meet on the first monday of April next, or within one month thereafter, at David Ridgeway’s dwelling in Peoria County, and being first duly sworn before some justice of the peace, faithfully to discharge the duties required of them by this act; shall proceed to view, mark[,] and locate said road; and so soon as practicable thereafter, cause to be made a map of the survey of said road, certified by them, and forward a copy

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thereof to the Clerk of the county Commissioners’ court, of each of the counties, through which, or part of which, said road shall pass, which shall be ^by^ him filed in his office. And the said road, thus laid out, shall be, and is hereby declared a public State road, and shall be opened, and kept in Repair in the same manner as other public roads are

Sec. 3. Said Commissioners shall receive for their services one dollar and fifty cents per day for all the time necessarily employed in said work: together with a reasonable compensation for one Surveyor, two Chain Carriers, and one marker; which several sums shall be paid by the Counties, through any part of which, said road shall pass, in proportion to the extent of said road in each.