Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois represented in the General assembly, That Archibald Spring, Daniel Ingraham, and Leonard C Bond of Edwards County be and they are hereby appointed Commissioners, any two of whom may act, to lay out survey and mark a road commencing at Albion in Edwards County and running thence to Henry J Mills in Edwards county, and make a plat thereof, and file the same with the clerk of the county commissioners court of Edwards county, and the county commissioners Court of said county shall make a just and Equitable allowance to each of said commissioners for all time and necessary expense in laying out making surveying and making and filing a plat of said road, which shall be paid out of the treasury of said county of Edwards.

Sec.[Section] 2 Said commissioners shall proceed to lay out survey and mark said road the nearest way and best ground having due regard to the interests of individuals through and near which said road may pass.

Sec 3 Where said road shall pass through the ^improved^ lands of private individuals, said commissioners shall also proceed to assess such reasonable damages as each may suffer thereby, which shall be paid by the county commissioners of said county.

Sec. 4. Said commissioners shall meet at the Town of Albion on the first monday in September next or as soon thereafter as may be convenient and after having been sworn by some Justice of peace of Edwards county faithfully to discharge

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the duties enjoined by this act; shall proceed to discharge thereof.1