hereby appointed commissioners to view[,] lay out[,] and mark a road from Equality in Gallatin County to Vienna in Johnson County, by the nearest and most eligible route for the same, having in view the most suitable ground for the location thereof; and report the same ^together^ with a description thereof under their hands to the County Commissioners Courts of said counties of Gallatin, Pope[,] and Johnson on or before the first term after the said view, and the number of days employed by them respectively in the said work; and the Said road when so viewed[,] marked[,] and reported shall be deemed a State road and kept in repair as other state roads are.

Sec 2. The said commissioners, or a majority of them shall, on or before the first Monday in September next, or within thirty days thereafter meet at the town of Viena and after being duly sworn before some Justice of the peace, proceed to lay out said road as is directed in the preceeding section. And the county commissioners Courts of the counties of Pope and Johnson, shall allow each of said commissioners a sum equal to two dollars per day, for every day they shall be engaged in viewing and marking said road; the county of Pope paying the two

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commissioners from Pope for so far as the same shall be in Gallatin and Pope counties, and the county of Johnson paying the one commissioner from Johnson for so far as the same shall be in Gallatin and Johnson counties.