Sct.[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois Represented in the general Assembly [?]Anson Root[, ] Lemuel Morse[, ] [Alfred Churchill ][, ][Elder] Ambrose[, ] and Henry A. Miller [?] and they are hereby appointed Commissioners [?] mark, locate[, ] and establish a State road from Fox River in Kane County, westwardly to a road running from Aurora in said County, to Dixon’s ferry in Ogle County.

2. Said Commissioners, or a majority of them, shall meet at the House of Isaac Wilson in said County on the first Monday in may next or within six months thereafter, and after being duly sworn [by some justice of?] the peace faithfully to perform [?] them by this Act, shall proceed to [?] establish said road, commencing on [the west?] bank of Fox River at or near a House built by Harvey Bristol and now occupied by Horace Town in said County thence running westwardly until said road to be laid out shall strike the said road [?] from Aurora to Dixon’s ferry taking into [?] best rout and the most advantageous for [a per?]menant road.

3. Said Commissioners shall within six months after the location of said road make a report of their proceedings to the County Commissioner’s Court of the respective Counties through which said road may pass. The said Road thus laid out and established shall be a public highway of this State and the County Commissioner’s Courts of said Counties shall cause the same to be opened to kept in repair as other roads are. Said Commissioners and the Surveyor employed by them to [survey?] said road shall receive for their services a reasonable compensation out of the funds of the said Counties through which the said

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road may pass to be allowed by the County Commissioner’s Courts of said Counties.