A bill for an act to locate a State road from Bloomington to Lexington

Sec[Section] 1^st Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois Represented in the General assembly That Jacob Spawr, Elbert Dickerson[,] and Jesse W Fell of Mc Lean County, be and they are hereby appointed Commissioners, to view, mark, Survey[,] and locate a State Road from Bloomington to a point on the Money Creek Timber at or near Elbert Dickerson’s, and from thence to Lexington in said County, Said Commissioners or a majority of them, shall meet at the Town of Bloomington on the first Monday in April next or within Ninety days thereafter, and after being duly sworn by some Justice of the Peace faithfully to discharge the duties required of them by this act, shall proceed to view, mark, survey, and locate said road, taking into consideration the Public convenience, and the permanency of the road, doing as little injury to private property as practicable

Sec 2^nd Said Commissioners shall make a report in writing to the county commissioners court for McLean County at the next term thereof after said location is made, which said report shall form a part of the records of said court, and said road thus laid out shall be a public highway of this State, And the County Commissioners court of said County shall cause the same to be opened, and kept in repair as other roads are required by law ^, Provided,^

Sec 3^rd The width of said road so located shall be sixty feet, Except that

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portion of it, which may be within one a distance of one mile from the court house in the Town of Bloomington, which shall be Eighty feet wide