Sec.[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That Benjamin Harris, William Munson, and Levi Lee, be and they are hereby appointed commissioners to view, survey, mark, and locate

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a state road beginning at the town of Munson, in Lasalle county, from thence to Pawpaw Grove, Plum Thicket, Loblolly, mouth of Sycamore, Winnebago, the mouth of Pickatolica, thence north to the state line; and that Benjamin F. Findley, Joseph McCarty, and Rufus Calton, be and they are hereby appointed commissioners to view, survey, mark, and locate a state road, beginning at McCarty’s mills on Fox River, in Kane county, from thence to Caltonsville, Lee’s mills, mouth of Kishwakee, Bloomingville, to Oregon; and that C. W. Reynolds, Albert Moon, and James Breckenridge, be and they are hereby appointed to view, survey, mark, and locate a state road from Peru, in Lasalle county, to the state line between Illinois and Indiana, in a direction to Lafayette on the Wabash, by Lowel, Webster, Pontiac, to the state line; and that John C. Philips, William Munson, and Alvey Culney, be and they are hereby appointed commissioners to view, survey, mark, and locate a state road from Juliet to Rock Island, by Georgetown.

Sec. 2. Said commissioners, or a majority of them, shall meet at the points of beginning of the aforesaid roads, on the first day of September, or as soon as practicable, and, after being first duly sworn before some justice of the peace, shall proceed to locate said roads on the nearest and best routes, taking into view the public good.

Sec. 3. The several county commissioners’ courts shall pay such reasonable compensation as they think just and right, in proportion to the length of said road in each county.

Sec. 4. Said commissioners shall, within twenty days after the location of said roads, file a plat of the survey with the clerk of the county commissioners’ courts of the several counties through which said roads may pass.

Sec. 5. That John W. Lott and Miles Bennett, of Greene County, and Austin S. Wilson, of Macoupin county, be and they are hereby appointed commissioners to view, survey, mark, and locate a state road from Carlinville, in Macoupin county, by way of Jerseyville, to Grafton in Greene county, varying as little as practicable from a direct line, having in view the most eligible route, its permanency, and due regard to the public convenience.2

Sec. 6. That said commissioners, or a majority of them, shall meet on the first day of August next, or within six months thereafter, at Carlinville, and being first duly sworn before some justice of the peace faithfully to discharge the duties required of them by this act, shall proceed to survey, mark, and locate said road, and as soon as practicable thereafter, cause to be made a map of the survey of said road, certified by them, and forward copies thereof to the

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clerk of the county commissioners’ court of each county through which said road may pass, which shall be by them filed in their offices; and the said road thus laid out shall be and is hereby declared a public state road, and shall be opened and kept in repair in the same manner as other public roads are.

Sec. 7. Said commissioners shall receive a just and fair compensation for all the necessary time employed in said work, together with a reasonable compensation for one surveyor, two chain carriers, and one marker, which shall be paid by the counties respectively through which said road may pass, in proportion to the distance in each county through which it may pass.

Sec. 8. This act shall not take effect, so far as regards Macoupin county, until it is accepted by the order of the county commissioners’ court of said county, on application of the citizens of the county on said route This act in force from and after its passage.

Sec. 9. That so much of an act passed at the last session of the General Assembly, as declares a certain county road which runs from Charleston, in Coles county, to Hitesville, shall apply to the south county road running to and from the abovementioned towns.3

Approved, 21st July, 1837.