A Bill for an act to locate a state road from Danville to Chicago & from Juliet to State line.

Be it ennacted by the people of the State of Illinois represented in the General assembly that Samuel Holcomb, Daniel Wittson, and C. C. Vanhorn be and they are hereby appointed commissioners to view, survey, mark & locate a State road, to commence at some suitable place in the Town of Danville, in Vermillion county, running thence by the most direct and eligible route to the city of Chicago, crossing the Kankakee below its junction with the Iroquois, and crossing Hickory Creek at Vanhorn’s mill.

Sec[Section] 2^nd The said commissioners, or a majority of them shall meet at the Town of Danville on the first monday of September next or within three months thereafter, and having been duly sworn by & before some justice of the peace faithfully to perform the duties required of them by this act shall proceed to view, survey, mark, and locate said road from point to point and on the nearest and best possible route as above indicated, taking into consideration public convenience, utility, and econimy so as to make the same a permanent road, doing as little damage to private property as possible.

sec 3^rd The said commissioners or a majority of them shall make out a report of their proceedings to the county commissioner’s courts of the several counties through which the said road may pass, accompanied by a complete map of said Road, which report & map shall be filed & recorded by the clerks of the county commissioners courts & shall form a part of the records of

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said courts, and the said road when laid out as aforesaid shall be deemed & considered a public highway and shall be opened and kept in repair as other roads are.

Sec 4^th Be in further ennacted That William [Gougur?], Thomas Fitzsimmons and Thomas Cox be and they are hereby appointed commissioners to view, survey, mark and locate a State road from Juliet in Will county, to Vanhorn’s mill, thence to the State line of Indiana where the Sauk trail crosses the same.

S^ec 5^th The said commissioners shall meet at the Town of Juliet on the first monday in September next, ^or within three months thereafter^ be qualified, view, survey mark and locate said road from point to point, make their report & Plat to the clerks of the commissioners courts & in all respects discharge & perform their duties in the manner pointed out in the second and third sections of this act, and the said road shall be opened & kept in repair in the same manner, and be subject to the same regulations & conditions that other State roads are.

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This act to be in force from and after is passage.