Sec[Section] 1 Be it enacted by the people of the state of Illinois Represented in the General Assembly. That John Millican, and David Yarnall, of Vermillion County and Henry Sodorus, of Champaign County be and they are hereby appointed Commissioners to view, survey, mark, and locat a State road beginning at or near where the County road leading from Newport Indiana, to the saltworks in Vermillion County Illinois crosses the State line, thenc the nearest and best way to Georgetownthenc to Chilicothe thence with the state road passing now through Chilicothe to or near David Yarnall[’]s, thence to the three mile grove, thence the nearest and best way to intersect the
road leading from Decator to Danville at Henry Sodorus’ in Champaign County
Sec. 2. Said Commissioners shall meet at the house of Benjamin Canady, in Georgetown, on the first Monday in July 1839 or so soon thereafter as convenient and shall proceed
to view, survey, mark[,] and locate a State road, in complyance with the first section of this act, and to effect that object may call to their aid
a competent Surveyor and two chainmen. Said Commissioners and Surveyor shall each
receive two dollars, and each chain carrier one dollar ^per day^ for every day they are necessarily employed in reviewing, surveying, marking[,] and locating said road
Sec. 3 Said Commissioners shall lay out said road four poles wide, and shall mark and
designate the course of said road in its passage through timber and prairie in such
manner as to them may seem most advisable
Sec 4 Said Commissioners shall within three months after the location of said road cause
a plat of the same to be filed with the
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County Commissioners Court of Vermillion County as also one with the County Commissioners Court of Champaign County, which said Courts shall pay all expences incured in the reviewing, surveying, marking[,] and locating said state road, paying in proportion to the amount said road may be
laid out in their respective counties
Handwritten Document, 2 page(s), Folder 418, SB 109, GA Session 11-1, Illinois State Archives (Springfield, IL) ,