Sec[Section] 1 Be it enacted by the people of the state of Illinois represented in the General Assembly; That John A Wakefield, and Asahel Lee of the County of Fayette, and James W Vaugn of the County of Shelby be and they are hereby appointed commissioners to view, survey and locate a road from Hardy Foster’s in Marion County to Shelbyville in Shelby county.

sec 2. Said commissioners, or a majority of them, shall meet at the house of Hardy Foster in Marion county, on the first monday in June next, or within thirty days thereafter and shall proceed to view, mark and locate a ^+6^ road from said Foster’s to shelbyville, crossing the national road on said route in township six north in range one east in the county of Fayette, thence on the most eligible and nearest route on the east side of the Kaskaskia river to Shelbyville in Shelby county.

sec 3. Said commissioners or a majority of them, shall make out a true map or plat of said road, a copy of which shall be transmited to the Secretary of State to be filed in his office, a copy of the same shall be returned to the county commissioners’ courts of the respective counties through which the same may pass, at the first term of the county commissioners’ court held after the location of said road, and

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the county commissioners shall allow said commissioners such compensation, as they may think reasonable and just, not exceeding two dollars per day, and such allowance for chain carriers and others employed on said road as they may deem reasonable and just, to be paid out of the county treasury of the county of Fayette and Shelby.

Sec 4. The county commissioners of the county of Shelby and of the county of Fayette, shall cause that part of the road running through their respective counties, to be oppened and kept in repair as other state roads are. This act to take effect and be inforce from its passage.