Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That Guy Beck, of Fayette county, William Freeman, of Effingham county, and Abbot Lee, of Jasper county, be and they are hereby appointed commissioners to survey, mark, and locate a state road from Bowling Green, in Fayette county, through Ewington, in Effingham county, to Newton, in Jasper county, doing as little injury to private property as the public good will permit.

Sec. 2. The said commissioners, or a majority of them, shall meet at Bowling Green on the first Monday in September next, or as soon thereafter as practicable, and after being duly sworn by some justice of the peace of said county of Fayette, faithfully to view and locate said road, without partiality or affection, and faithfully to discharge the duties required of them by this act. The said commissioners shall place in the prairies through which said road shall pass, stakes of reasonable size and durable timber, and marks on the trees in the timber.

Sec. 3. As soon as practicable after said road is located, said commissioners, or a majority of them, shall make out a report, accompanied by a map or plat of said road, giving the courses and distances from point to point, with such other marks of certainty, as they may deem necessary; and shall transmit a copy of said report and plat to the county commissioners’ court of each county through which said road shall pass, which shall be filed in their respective offices; and each county shall bear her proportional part of the expense, according to the distance said road

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may pass through the same, to be allowed by the county commissioners’ court of each county.

Sec. 4. When said road is located, it shall and is hereby declared a public state road, and shall be opened and kept in repair as other state roads are in this state.

Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That Philip Luster, of Fayette county, and Boswell Drake and Robert E. Outhouse, of Clinton county, be and they are hereby appointed commissioners to view, mark and locate, a state road from Vandalia, in Fayette county, commencing at or near the bluff east of Vandalia, on the national road, thence to Carlyle, in Clinton county.

Sec. 6. The said commissioners, or a majority of them, shall meet at James Altom’s on the first Monday of October next, or within four months thereafter, and after having been sworn by some justice of the peace faithfully and impartially to discharge the duties required of them by this act, shall proceed to view, mark, and locate said road, on a direct line from the place of beginning, to Carlyle, on the most eligible ground, keeping in view the interests of the public good.

Sec. 7. Said commissioners, after they shall have done said work, shall make out a plat or map of said road, giving the courses, streams, and notable places, &c.[etc.]; to be deposited with the clerk of the county commissioners’ court, in the several counties through which said road shall pass, of that portion being and lying in each county, which shall be recorded at length in the books of said courts; and said courts shall allow said commissioners a reasonable compensation, to be paid out of their county treasuries.

Approved, 21st July, 1837.