Sec.[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That Joshua P. Crow, Reddick Horn, and Stephen Lee, are hereby appointed commissioners to review, mark, and relocate that part of the state road leading from Springfield to Beardstown, which lies between Archibald Job’s and William Babb’s bridge: said commissioners shall meet at A. Jobs any time before the first of January next, and being first sworn by some justice of the peace, shall proceed to perform the duty herein imposed upon them: said commissioners shall make a full report of the location of said road to the county commissioners’ court of Cass county; and after the road so relocated by them shall be opened, the former survey of

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the part of said road so relocated shall be vacated. The county commissioners’ court of the county of Cass shall allow to said commissioners a reasonable allowance for their services, out of the county treasury.

Sec. 2. That Julius Elmore, of Sangamon county, Thomas Boyce and J. R. Bennett, of Morgan county be, and they are hereby appointed commissioners to view, mark, and locate a state road, commencing at a mile post south of Petter Cartright’s, in Sangamon county, thence to William Crow’s, in Morgan county, running as near as practicable to the old road leading from one point to the other, and there intersect the road laid out by the county commissioners’ court of Morgan county, leading to Princeton, and then west with said survey as far as Stark Gilliams, thence through the settlement of Henry Keltnor’s timber, thence to the head timber of Walnut Grove, thence to New Virginia.

Sec. 3. That said commissioners, or any two of them, shall meet at the house of Petter Cartright, in Sangamon county, on the second Monday in August next, or as soon as practicable thereafter, and before entering on the discharge of their duties shall take an oath before some justice of the peace of Sangamon county, faithfully and impartially to observe all the duties enjoined upon them by this act, shall proceed to view, mark, and locate said road, beginning and touching the points as named in section second.

Sec. 4. Said commissioners shall cause a map or survey to be made of said road, to be filed in the office of the clerks of the county commissioners’ courts of Sangamon and Morgan; and the county commissioners’ courts of each county through which the road shall pass, shall allow the said commissioners such compensation for their services as shall be just and reasonable in proportion to the services rendered in each county.

Sec. 5. Said road shall be opened and kept in repair as other state roads are, and shall take effect and be in force from and after the passage of this act.

Approved, 21st July, 1837.