Sec.[Section] 1 Be it enacted by the people of the state of Illinois represented in the General Assembly That John [W?] Marshall ^Greenbury ^W.^ Moore^ of the County of Hamilton and Solomon Webb of the County of Franklin and Benjamin Harnick of the County of Perry are hereby appointed commissioners to view[,] mark and locate a state road beginning at the Town of McLanesborough in Hamilton County thence to the Town of Benton in Franklin County from thence running with the state road from Nashville to Benton to the bridge on big muddy river thence with said State road to the point where the County road diverges from the same thence with the County road to Gallaway[’]s ford on Little muddy river thence thence to George Lipe[’]s in the nine mile prairie thence on the section line the nearest and best way to Pinckneyville in Perry County

Sec. 2 Said commissioners or any two of them shall meet at the Town of McLanesborough on or before the first monday in September next and after being duly sworn before some justice of the peace to the faithful performance of their duties shall proceed to lay out said road from point to point upon the nearest best and most eligible ground having due regard to private property

Sec 3 Said road when so laid out a report of which shall be filed by said commissioners with the clerks of the County Commissioners Courts of the respective Countys through which said

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road is to run and the same shall ^be^ opened and kept in repair as other state roads are

sec. 4 Said Commissioners shall be allowed a reasonable compensation for their servises not exceeding two dollars per day at the discretion of the County commissioners Courts which shall be paid by said Counties in proportion to the time said Commissioners may necessarily be employed in each County in making said location

sec 5 The present County road laid out and opened from McLanesborough to Carmi running by Westly Biggerstaff^s is hereby declared a state road

This act to be in force from its passage