Sec.[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That Zopher Case, E. A. Haydon, and James Burnsides, all of the county of Clinton, be, and they are hereby appointed commissioners to view, survey, and relocate a part of the State road from Carlyle, in Clinton county, to Vandalia, viz: To commence at the south east corner of P. J. Holcomb's farm, from thence running south on the section line to Martin's ferry; from thence south to Levi Martin's, and from thence to intersect the old road at the most convenient point between there and the prairie; commissioners to meet at Carlyle.

Sec. 2. That John Sample, Samuel Prooser, and William Jackson, of Morgan county, be, and they are hereby appointed commissioners to view, survey and locate a State road commencing at a point in the original plat of the town of Jacksonville, where Court street terminates, and continuing east on the same line with Court street forty feet in width until the same reaches a point directly south of Phillips’ bridge on the Mauvaisterre creek, and from thence north to said bridge; commissioners to meet at Jacksonville.

Sec. 3. That a portion of the State road leading from Palestine to Vandalia, be altered and relocated, viz: Beginning at the west end of Grand Prairie street, in Palestine, thence due west about one hundred rods, thence a north-west direction to the south-east corner of the north-east quarter of section number thirty-three, township seven north, range eleven west, one half mile, intersecting the road as at present located, and the county commissioners’ court of Crawford county shall cause said road to be opened and kept in repair as other State roads are required to be, and that part of said road from Palestine to the place where the re-located portion strikes the said road, be, and the same is hereby vacated. The county surveyor shall run the same out, and return a plat thereof for record.2

Sec. 4. That John White, Daniel Pike, and Isaac Hill, of Morgan county, be, and they are hereby appointed commissioners to view, survey, and re-locate a part of the State road from Jacksonville, through Oxville, Phillips’ ferry to Griggsville, viz: Commencing at James Morrison’s, near Oxville, thence to Phillips’ ferry; also, to re-locate a part of the State road, running from Winchester, through Bloomfield, to Naples, viz: To commence at James Morrison’s, thence to Naples; commissioners to meet at said Morrison’s.

Sec. 5. That Robert Smith, of Livingston county, and Jacob Shaw and Silas B. Curtis, of McLean county, be, and they are hereby appointed commissioners to view, survey and locate a State road, viz: Commencing at or near Oliver’s Grove, in Livingston county, thence to Indian Grove, in said county, thence to the town of Pleasant Hill, in McLean county, thence to the town of Lexington, in said county,

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thence to Peoria, by way of Clarksville, Bowling Green, Versailes, and Washington; commissioners to meet at Oliver’s Grove.

Sec. 6. That an act, entitled “An art to locate a State road from Shelbyville, in Shelby county, by way of Urbana, in Champaign county to Chicago,” approved, February seventh, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven, be, and the same is hereby revived, and that William Purvis of Shelby county, and William Rock and Noah Bixler, of Champaign county, be and they are hereby appointed commissioners, to carry out the provisions of the act above referred to, in all respects, to terminate said location at the Sugar Grove, at the north-east corner of Champaign county; commissioners to meet at such point as may be agreed upon.3

Sec. 7. That Samuel Hunsacker, George Hunsacker, and William C. Whitlock, of the county of Union, be, and they are hereby appointed commissioners to view, survey and relocate so much of the Willard’s ferry State road as lies between Jonesboro’ and Henry Cruse’s mill-race, and so much thereof as lies between Caleb Truse’s house and the Running Lake; said commissioners shall state in their report to the commissioners’ court of Union county, whether in their opinion the relocation will make the road shorter and better, and if, in their opinion, the same will be shorter and better, the commissioners’ court shall by an order or record declare the said re-location a public State road, and shall cause the same to be opened and kept in repair, and all such parts of the present road as shall be left out in such relocation, shall be vacated whenever the relocated parts thereof shall be opened.

Sec. 8. The commissioners appointed at the last session of the General Assembly to locate and establish a State road from Hillsboro’ to Shelbyville, via Audubon, having failed and neglected to perform their duty in locating said road, Phillip Curlue and Thomas Gray, of Montgomery county, and John Tacket, of Shelby county, be, and they are hereby appointed commissioners to view, survey and locate said road and carry out the provisions of said act, making Audubon and Craddock’s mill, points in locating the same; commissioners to meet at Hillsboro’.

Sec. 9. That Joseph Slangler, Elisha Query, and Henry Yorger of, be, and they are hereby appointed commissioners to view, survey, and re-locate a part of the State road from Decatur to Sidney, viz: So much of said road as lies between where said road crosses the section line north-east of Guy Helm, running west from thence until it passes said farm of Guy Helm, from thence on the nearest and best route to Decatur, doing as little damage to improved lands as practicable; commissioners to meet at such point as may be agreed upon.

Sec. 10. That Samuel Brown, James Scott, and Thomas

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D. Moore, of Macoupin county, are hereby appointed commissioners to view, survey, and relocate a part of the State road from Carlinville to Hillsboro’, viz: To commence and leave the present road at the top of the hill east of the bridge across Macoupin creek, and thence run on a line as near as possible to the north corner of Honey creek meeting house lot, thence due east until it intersects the old road near the north-west corner of Thomas Carr’s farm; commissioners to meet at such point as may be agreed upon.

Sec. 11. That Jacob Malerry and Charles Hutchinson, of Hamilton county, and David Kinsaul of Gallatin county, be, and they are hereby appointed commissioners to view survey and locate a State road from McLeansboro’, in Hamilton county, to Bear creek bridge5, and the road from said bridge to Shawneetown, as now located and established, is hereby declared a State road four rods wide; said commissioners to meet at McLeansboro’.6

Sec. 12. That L. E. Courtright, J. K. Hodge and James Kelly, of Coles county, be, and they are hereby appointed commissioners to view, survey and re locate so much of the State road in said county as lies between the house of J. K. Hodge, and one half mile cast of L. E. Courtright. on the most eligible ground for a permanent road: Provided, The said L. E. Courtright will be at the expense of said new survey and location, a plat of the same to be returned to commissioners’ court of Coles county, to be recorded and filed.7

Sec. 13. That the county road leading from the town of Le Roy, in the county of McLean, to the town of Lexington, in said county, be, and the same is hereby declared a State road four rods wide. 8

Sec. 14. That Eli Barnes, John Easterbrook, and Jesse C. Kellogg, be, and they are hereby appointed to view, survey and locate a State road from Ottawa in La Salle county, thence northerly through Saminack timber, Sugar Grove, to Sycamore, the county seat of De Kalb county, thence by Genoa post-office, to Belvidere, the county seat of Boone county, thence to the State line in a direction to Madison, the seat of Government of Wisconsin Territory; commissioners to meet at Ottawa.

Sec. 15. That Martin Gillet, be, and he is hereby authorized and permitted to make an alteration in the roads at or near his house, viz: To alter and re-locate the Kaskaskia road west of his house so as to intersect the Carlyle road at or near the north-west corner of his house, making a gradual and neat curve in the road so altered west of his house, and on opening and putting the new located road in good order, the Kaskaskia road from the curve west of the house to the present intersection with the Carlyle road at or near Neal Eliot’s shall be annulled and vacated, said Gillet shall cause the same to be surveyed, platted, and returned to the commissioners’ court of the county to be recorded and filed.

Sec. 16. That Jacob Wydick, William Wardal, Jr., and Elisha Freeman, be, and they are hereby appointed commissioners to view, survey, and locate a State road commencing at Decatur, in Macon county, thence to Mount Auburn, in Christian county, thence to Macoupin Point, and to intersect the Springfield and Alton road, at or near said point; commissioners to meet at Decatur.

Sec. 17. That Nathan Clampet, James Bowdiere, of Jefferson county, and John Mayfield, of Jackson county, be, and they are hereby appointed commissioners, to view, survey, and locate a State road from Mount Vernon, in Jefferson county, to Brownsville, in Jackson county, said road to be located on the old county road from Mount Vernon to where said road runs in the Horse prairie, thence to Kirkpatrick’s bridge across Little Muddy river, and from thence the nearest and most eligible route to Brownsville; commissioners to meet at Mount Vernon.

Sec. 18. That Wallace Hotchkiss, Lyman German, and Simeon McKinley, all of Kane county, be, and they are hereby appointed commissioners to view, survey and locate a State road from Geneva, the county seat of Kane county, to Warrenville, in Du Page county; commissioners to meet at Geneva.

Sec. 19. That Levi Williams, Eli D. Walker, and T. E. Fox, of Hancock county, be, and they are hereby appointed commissioners to view, survey, and locate a State road from Lima, in Adams county, to Green Plains post-office, and from thence to Nauvoo, in Hancock county; and also, a State road from said Green Plains post-office, to the town of Warsaw, in said county of Hancock; commissioners to meet at Warsaw.

Sec. 20. That Harvey Lee, Sen., and Thomas Cooper, of Fayette county, and William Aldridge, of Clay county, be, and they are hereby appointed commissioners to view, survey, and locate a State road from a suitable point on the road leading to Maysville on or near the Four mile prairie, thence to the south line of section eleven, township six north, in range three, east of the third principal meridian, thence the nearest and best way to Louisville, in Clay county; commissioners to meet at John Haley’s in Fayette county.

Sec. 21. The commissioners appointed to locate, re-locate and establish the several roads and parts of roads in this act named, shall, previous to entering upon the discharge of the duties assigned them, be sworn before some judge or justice of the peace of the State, faithfully and impartially to perform the duties required of them by this act, and they shall endeavor to locate said roads from point to point given, on the nearest and most eligible route for permanent roads, doing as little damage to private property as the nature of the case will permit, keeping in view the public good.

Sec. 22. Said commissioners shall make out a report and plat of the roads so by them established, and return the same

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to the county commissioners’ court of that part lying and being in each county, giving the courses and distances, which shall be recorded and filed. All the roads and parts of roads authorized by this act, shall be four rods wide, unless otherwise slated.

Sec. 23. The compensation to commissioners shall be one dollar and fifty cents per day, surveyors two dollars, chain and axe-men seventy-five cents for each and every day necessarily employed in the discharge of the duties herein required, to be paid out of the county treasuries upon the order of the county commissioners’ courts respectively, apportioning the whole amount to the extent and distance of road in the counties.

Sec. 24. The commissioners herein appointed shall commence and attend to the duties enjoined so soon as practicable after the passage of this act, and shall complete the same previous to the first Monday of September next.

Sec. 25. The county commissioners’ courts of the several counties interested, shall cause the roads herein established to be opened, worked and kept in repair as far as the labor tax and finances will permit.

Approved, February 27, 1841.