Section 1 Be it enacted by the people of the state of Illinois, represented in the general Assembly ^That the county commissioners of Greene county^ shall at the June term of said court, or at any reagular term thereafter to be held during the present year, appoint three suitable persons re who are residents in that part of Greene county lying South of the Macoupin Creek, and three other suitable persons who are residents in that portion of the said county which lies between Apple-creek and the Macoupin creek, also three other persons who reside in that part of the county which lies north of apple-creek, for the purpose of viewing, surveying[,] and permanently locating the Roads from the Towns herein after mentioned

Section 2^nd

The three persons who may be appointed agreeable to the first section of this act in that part of the county lying south of the Macoupin, shall, within three months after their appointment, proceed to view[,] survey[,] and permanently locate a road from the Town of Jerseyville to some point on the Mississippi or on the Illinois river as may be prayed for by a petition of the citizens of that part of the county; the three persons who may be selected in that part of the county lying between Apple-creek and Macoupin, agreeable to the provisions of the first section of this act, shall also, within three months after their appointment, proceed to survey and permanently locate a Road from the Town of Carrollton to some point on the Illinois River as may be petitioned for by the citizens living in the center part of the county; and also, the three persons living north of apple-creek which may be appointed as above provided who reside north of apple-creek, shall also, within three

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months after their appointment, proceed to survey and permanently locate a Road from the Town of White Hall to some point on the Illinois River which may be petitioned for by the citizens who reside in that part of the county

Section 3

In all cases arising under this act where there is conflicting opinions in regard to the location and point of termination of the Roads herein authorized to be made, the county commissioners court shall authorize and direct that the two routs having the highest and greatest number of petitonery shall be surveyed and viewed as directed in this act, and the viewers shall decide and determin which of the two routs is the most preferable, and report accordingly, which report shall be final; and the survey and reports, together with a plats of the same, shall be entered upon the records of said court

Section 4

The county commissioners court of the said county shall at the term of said court ^when^ [...?] at which the viewers are appointed select some competent person to estimate the probable cost of constructing the roads herein authorized to be made estimating the cost of each seperately

Section 5

The sum of thousand dollars of the distributive share, which the said county of Greene has or may receive, out of the two hundred thousand dollars belonging to certain counties through which no rail Road should run, agreeable to the act to create and maintain a general system

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of Internal improvement, shall ^be^ set apart and applied out of the money which by said court for the purpose of opening, constructing[,] and improving said roads as by this act laid out, in the manner in that said court may order and direct

Section 6^th

The said county commissioners court shall have power and authority to appoint an agent or agents, whos duty it shall be to let and enter into contracts with responsible individuals to construct the Roads herein authorized to be made, under under any order, or agreeable to the rules and regulations made by said court; the said agents and the viewers, and the individual which may be appointed to make the estimates as directed in the fourth section of this act, shall severally, before they enter upon their respective duties, take an oath before faithfully and and impartially to perform their respective duties to the ^best^ of their ability and judgment, which oath shall be administered by the clerk of the said county commissioners court or by any Justice of the peace; And each person appointed agreeable to the provisions of ^this^ act shall receive a compensation out of the county treasuery not exceeding two dollars and fifty cents for each day which they may be employed in performing the duties required by this act