Sec[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the People of the state of Illinois represented in the General Assembly; That James Pollock of Randolp County and John Winstanly of S^t Clair County be and they are hereby appointed commissioners to view, mark[,] survey[,] and locate a state Road from Chester in Randolp County, via Preston in said county to Bellville in S^t Clair County. Said commissioners shall meet at the town of Chester on the first Monday in April next, or within Sixty days thereafter, and after being duly sworn, by some Justice of the Peace, faithfully to discharge the duties required of them by this act, shall proceed to view, mark, survey[,] and locate said road four poles wide, taking into consideration the Public convenience, and the permanency of the road, doing as little injury to private property as practicable.

Sec 2. Said commissioners, within thirty days after having located said road, shall make a report in writing to the county commissioners’ Courts of the respective counties through which the said road Shall pass; said report shall form a part of the records of said courts; and Said road thus laid out shall be a public highway of this state. And the county commissioners’ Courts of each county through which said road may pass, shall cause the same to be opened and

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kept in repair as State roads are required to be by law.

Sec 3. The county Commissioners’ Courts of the several counties, through which the same may pass, shall allow to said commissioners reasonable compensation for their services, to be paid out of the county treasuries of the counties through which the said road may pass in proportion to the time employed in surveying Said road in each of said counties.

This act to be in force from and after its passage