Sec.[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois represented in the General Assembly That Darius Phillips, Jacob Long, ^&^ Hugh Henderson of the County of Clark, be and they are hereby appointed Commissioners, to view, mark, and locate a State road commencing at Darwin in Clark County, thence passing through what is called the river settlement to the State line dividing the States of Illinois and Indiana on the nearest, and best route, in a direction towards Terre haute, Indiana

Sec. 2. Said commissioners, or a majority of them shall meet in the Town of Darwin, on the first day of April next, or within six weeks thereafter, and after being first duly sworn before some acting Justice of the peace of Clark County, faithfully, and impartially, to discharge the duties enjoined on them, by the provisions of this act, shall proceed to view, mark and locate said road, taking into consideration, the local situation of the Country, through which said road may pass, keeping in view the eligibility of the ground for a permanent location of said road, doing as little damage to private

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property as practicable

Sec. 3. And it shall be the duty of said commissioners within ten days after they have completed said location, to make out a report in writing, and file the same in the County Commissioners’ clerk’s office of Clark County, which report, when so filed, shall compose a part of said record

Sec. 4. Said Commissioners shall be entitled to two dollars per day, for each day necessarily employed in locating said road, which shall be paid out the County Treasury of Clark County.

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