Sec[Section] 1 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois represented in the General Assembly; That Isaac Doile of Peoria County[,] Luther Driscoll of Knox County[,] and Samuel L. Lamberson of Henry County be and they are hereby appointed commissioners to view[,] mark[,] and locate a state road from stephenson in Rock Island County via Rock Island-city (crossing Rock River at or near Van Ruffs ferry) Lagrange in Henry County, & Lafayette in Knox County to Peoria in Peoria County.

Sec 2. The said commissioners, or a majority of them, shall meet in the town of stephenson on the first Monday in June next or within six months thereafter and after being duly sworn before some Justice of the peace faithfully to perform the duties required of them by this act, shall proceed to view[,] mark[,] and locate said road from point to point, taking into consideration the local situation of the Country, and the public convenience, and doing as little injury to private property a^s^ practicable on the best and most advantageous ground for a permanent road.

Sec 3 As soon as practicable after said road is located said commissioners, or a majority of them shall make out a report, accompanied by a map or plat

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of said road giving the courses and distances from point to point with such other marks of certainty as they may deem necessary, and shall transmit a copy of said plat and report to the county commissioners courts of each county through which said road shall pass, which shall be filed in their respective offices; and each county shall bear her proportional part of expenses according to the distance of said road in may pass through the same to be allowed by the county commissioners court of each county. And the Said county commissioners courts shall cause so much of said road as lies in their respective counties to be opened four poles wide, and the same shall be deemed a state Road, and shall be kept in repair as other state roads are.

Sec 4 If the said road can be made to intersect within the bounds of the county of Peoria without materially changing its course, any State road heretofor laid out, or that may hereafter be laid out prior to the location of the road authorized by this act, the said commissioners shall not be authorized or required to continue said road any further than the

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point where the two roads may intersect