Sec[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois represented in the General Assembly; That Reuben Carlock of M^cLean county, Jonathan Babb and Augustus Langworthy of Putnam County be, and they are hereby appointed commissioners to view, survey, mark lay out and locate a road from the town of Windsor in Putnam County to the town of Columbia in the same county, and from thence by the most feasible and direct route to the town of Versailles in M^cLean 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. The said commissioners, or a majority of them shall meet on the first Monday of May next, or within two months thereafter at Windsor 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 as soon as practicable thereafter cause to be made a map of the survey of said road certified by them, and ^forward^ a copy thereof to the clerk of the County Commissioners Court of each of the Counties through which, or a part of which, said road shall pass, which shall be filed by him in his office, and be deemed a part of the record of said Court. And the said road thus laid out, together with the present county road from the town of

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Versailles by Bowling Green to Bloomington 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. The said Commissioners, and one surveyor[,] two Chain Carriers, and one marker shall respectively receive for their services a reasonable compensation, to be determined by the Commissioners Courts, and paid out of the treasuries of the several Counties through which said road shall pass in proportion to the time and labor actually expended in each, in, and about the location of said road.