Sec[Section]. 1st. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois represented in the general Assembly. That Jacob Barton, William French and Garison W Berry, be and they are hereby appointed Commissioners, to review and re-locate a part of
the State Road leading from Jacksonville to Naples.
Sec. 2nd. Said Committee ^Commissioners^ or any two of them shall meet in the Town of Jacksonville on the first Monday in April next or some day thereafter, and after having been duly
sworn by some Justice of the Peace to the faithful discharge of their duty, as required
in this act, shall proceed to review and relocate said state Road as follows to wit.
Beginning at the North-West corner of Mr Posts fence, and running the old road until it strikes the half sectional line of
Section Nineteen, thence following that line forty rods and thence running in a West
direction until it intersects the present Road near Mr Smiths, and meets the Road ^opened^ by Catlin and Duncan on the West line of the East half of the South West quarter
of Section twenty four, Township fifteen North Range Eleven West of the third P Meridian.
Sec. 3rd. After said Commissioners shall have located said Road, as provided for in the foregoing
Section, they shall make a map of the same and also a written Statement of the location,
showing the changes made from the present traveled route, and return said Map and
written Statement, to the Clerk of the County Commissioners Court of Morgan County, which shall be filed and preserved by said
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Clerk; said Road when so located shall be and remain a State Road, and shall be opened
and kept in repair, as other State Roads are.
Sec. 4th. All parts of the present roads that are changed by said Commissioners shall after the re-location and opening of
said new location be vacated.
Sec. 5th. Said Commissioners shall receive out of the County treasury of Morgan County two Dollars per day as a compensation for their services.
This act to be in force from and after its passage
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Handwritten Document, 4 page(s), Folder 115, HB 149, GA Session 11-1, Illinois State Archives (Springfield),