Sec[Section] 1 Be it enacted by the people of the state of Illinois represented in the General assembly

That Elisha Linder, and Thomas Marshall of Coles County and Elijah Iles, of Sangamon, County, be and they are hereby appointed commissioners, to view Survey, extend[,] and locate the Darwin and Charleston Turnpike, from Charleston by Mt Auburn to Springfield.

Sec 2 Said commissioners or a majority of them shall meet at Charleston, in the month of April next and previous to entering upon the discharge of the duties enjoined on them, shall be sworn and make oath before some judge or justice of the peace of the state that they will foithfully and impartially to the best of their judgement view, survey, and extend the location of said road with a view to the public good and the permanency of the road.

Sec 3 Said commissioners shall review the present location from the first angle west of Westfield to Charleston, with a view of crossing the Embarrass river at Baker[’]s and Norfolk[’]s mill, and if in their good judgement, the latter should be found to be the shortest and a more preferable route, they shall make the alteration and permanent location from ^8^ said angle by way of said mill to Charleston, and it shall be the duty of said commissioners to examine fully and carefully the country between Charleston and springfield and keeping in view the public good and the best interests of the state, they shall locate said road on the nearest and most eligible route for a permanent Turnpike, making the whole width of the road eighty feet placing a line of stakes

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in the centre, at each angle a stone or a stake if stone cannot be conveniently procured, and at suitable distances, side stakes of durable timber well driven and planted in the ground, ^“^marking the trees on a true line through timbered land, and at the termination of each mile from the point of commencement a suitable post of durable timber, painted, shall be firmly planted in the ground with letters and figures shewing the exact distance in miles from Springfield to Marshall (National Road) and from Marshall^”^ to Springfield,

Sec 4 It shall be the duty of said commissioners, to make a report with a plat of said road giving the courses[,] distances[,] and notable places and streams, which shall be filed in the Internal Improvement office, or the office having in charge the original papers. reports[,] and proceedings of said Darwin and Charleston Turnpike road at springfield, to be filed and preserve[d?] in said office. And a Similar report and plat with the courses and distances, of the portion thereof lying and being in each County shall be furnished to the commissioners court of each county through which the same shall pass, to be recorded and filed

Sec 5 The compensation to said commissioners shall be one dollar and fifty cents each per day ^to the surveyor, two dollars per day^ and the necessary hands, seventy five cents each, for each and every day necessarily employed in locating and establishing as contemplated by this act said road, the whole bill of expences shall be made out and certified by said commissioners and the same shall be equally divided between the counties of Clark, Coles, Christian and Sangamon, and each county commissioners

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Court shall order the amount due to be paid to the individuals entitled to the same, and the county commissioners Courts shall cause the road to be opened and improved without delay.