Sec[Section] 1 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois represented in the General Assembly; That Robert Davis, Samuel A Nismith[,] and Joshua Woosley of Pike County be and they are hereby appointed commissioners to view, mark[,] and lay out a state road from Atlas, via, Rockport, New Canton[,] and Kinderhook to the south line of Adams county under the Mississippi Bluff, doing as little injury to private property as the public good will admit.

Sec 2. Said commissioners shall meet at Atlas on the first Monday in April next or within sixty days thereafter, and after being duly sworn before some Justice of the peace of the county aforesaid, well and truly to perform the duties required of them by this act according to the best of their skill and abilities, they shall proceed, at the place of beginning, and view, mark[,] and lay out said road agreeable to the first section of this act, locating said road on the nearest and most practicable route

Sec. 3. Said commissioners are authorized to employ a surveyor and necessary chainmen to assist in locating said road, and shall make report of all the principal points together with a plat and survey thereof certified by said surveyor, and file the same with the clerk of the county commissioners court, within thirty days after

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having located the same, which report shall be laid before the County Commissioners Court at their next term by their clerk, whose duty it shall be to cause the same to be recorded in the records of said Court. And said road shall be opened and kept in repair accordingly.

Sec 4. Said commissioners, surveyor[,] and Chain carriers shall receive such compensation for their services not exceeding two dollars per day as the commissioners court may deem just, to be paid of the county treasury.