Sec.[Section] 1 Be it enacted by the people of the state of Illinois represented in the General Assembly, That Henry Cheny, John Philips[,] and Joseph Whittenburgh of the County of Washington are hereby appointed Commissioners to mark review and locate a state road from Nashville in Washington County to middletons old ferry on the Kaskaskia River at the crossing of the road leading from Nashville to Belleville in st. Clair County

sec. 2. Said commissioners [or]1 a majority of them shall meet in the Town of Nashville on the first Monday in April ^or^ next, or within three months thereafter and after having taken an oath before some Justice of the Peace to faithfully to discharge the duty imposed upon them by this act, doing as little harm to private property as the public good will permit, shall proceed to locate said road, commenceing at the South west corner of J. D. Woods’ Land lying immediately west of Nashville, and runing to the ferry aforesaid, locating said ^road^ on the nearest and best ground putting up stakes in the prarie at proper distances, and marking trees in

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the timber,

sec 3. Said commissioners after having made the location aforesaid, shall make out a report of their proceedings, and present the same to the county court whose duty it shall be to have said report entered upon the records of the cort

sec 4. Said commissioners shall recive for their services not more than one Dollar and fifty cents per day each, to be paid out of the county Treashury for every day which they are necessarily employed in the discharge of the duties herein named

sec 5 Said road shall be opened and kept in repair as other state roads are