Sec[Section] 1 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois Represented in the General Assembly That Curtis Clark, Andrew Cornish and Benjamin Douglas, be and they are hereby appointed commissioners to view, mark and locate, a state Road from the City of Chicago to the south line of the Territory of Wisconsin, said road to cross the Desplain river at Monroe at or near the place where the present post road crosses the same, by Elk-grove in Cook County and Chrystal Lake in M^cHenry County thence to that point on the Territorial line which will be the most eligible for a continuation of said ^road^ by the head of Geneva Lake to Madison the capital of said Territory

Sec 2. The Commissioners or a majority of them shall meet in Monroe at the house of Silas Meacham on the first Tuesday in March next or within three months thereafter and after being duly sworn before some Justice of the Peace faithfully to perform the duties required of them by this act shall proceed to survey, mark, and locate said Road as is provided in the first section of this act, having in view the public good and shall as soon as practicable thereafter make or cause to be made a plat of said [road]1 certified by them, which shall be filed ^in^ the Clerks office of the County Commissioners Court, of the several Counties through which said road shall pass

Sec 3. All roads and parts of roads which shall begin and end in this said road or shall tend to the same point and not departing more than one mile from the same shall be and the same are hereby annulled and vacated

Sec 4 The said Commissioners shall be allowed two dollars each per day while necessarily imployed in said view and location together with a fair allowence for such necessary hands, as they may employ to be allowed by the Commissioners Court of the several Counties in propo[rtio]n to the length of said road in each of the same through which the road shall pass

This act to be in forc from and after its passage