AN ACT to locate a state road from Chester, Randolph county, to Elkville, In force March Jackson county. 29, 1869. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That Daniel G. Will and Philip Kimmel, of Jackson county, and John Commissioners. K. Burke, of Randolph county, be and they are hereby appointed commissioners to view, survey and locate a state road commencing at Chester, Randolph county, running thence, as near as practicable, due east to Elkville, a flag station on the Illinois Central Railroad, in Jackson county. § 2. Said commissioners, or a majority of them, shall, Survey of road. within six months after the passage of this act, meet at such place as they may agree upon, and be duly sworn, by some officer authorized by law to administer oaths, faithfully to perform the duties required of them by this act, and shall proceed to lay out said road as herein provided. They may vary from said due east line to avoid injury to private property, or to secure better ground whereon to locate said road. They shall have said road surveyed, and designate the same by planting stakes in the prairie and blazing trees in the timber, and they shall, as soon as said road is surveyed and laid out, make and file a report and plat of the same, giving the course and distances from point to point, which they, together with the surveyor, shall duly certify; and shall file a copy thereof in each of the offices of the clerks of the county court of Randolph and Jackson counties, and stating in report the number of days they were occupied in said locating said road, in each of the respective counties. Said commissioners shall ascertain and assess such damages as may arise to any and all persons over damages. whose lands said road shall pass, in the manner as is now provided by law in opening and locating roads, and report such damages, at the time of filing their report and plat as aforesaid, to the county court of the county wherein such damage may be sustained, subject to the right of appeal by the owner of the land or county court, as in such cases of assessment is now provided by law. Assessment of § 3. Upon the filing said reports, the county courts of Filing report. the counties through which said road shall pass shall order the same to be opened and fitted for travel. And the said county courts shall cause to be paid to said commissioners and surveyor, each, — dollars per day for the time ne- Compensation. cessarily employed in locating, surveying and platting said road in their respective counties. 4. Said road, when so located and laid out, shall be State road. and it is hereby declared a state road, and shall be opened and kept in repair as other state roads. 5. This act to take effect and be in force from and In force March 31, 1869. Survey and plat AN ACT to relocate part of a state road therein named. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That E. Commissioners. H. Simmons, William R. Brownier and Louis Hammach, of the county of Perry, and state of Illinois, be and they are hereby appointed commissioners to review aud relocate so much of the state road leading from the town of Pinckneyville, by the way of Tamaroa, in Perry county, Illinois, to Mt. Vernon, in Jefferson county, Illinois, as passes over section 28, sectioh 27, section 22, all in township 4 south, of range one west, in Perry county, Illinois. § 2. Said commissioners, or any two of them, shall, at any convenient time after the passage of this act, proceed to review and relocate said road, causing a survey and plat of the same to be made, which plat, by them signed and certified by the surveyor who shall survey the same, shall be returned to the clerk and recorded upon the proper record in the county clerk's office of Perry county aforesaid; and from the time of the return of said plat such road shall be deemed to be established as a public highway as relocated, and the county court of Perry county shall immediately cause the same to be opened, as now provided by law for opening new county or state roads. Expenses. 3. The county court of Perry county shall pay the expenses of reviewing and relocating said road from the treasury of said county. 4. This act to be deemed and taken as a public act, and take effect from and after its passage. APPROVED March 31, 1869. In force March AN ACT to establish a state road from the city of Galesburg, in the coun15, 1869. ty of Knox, to the town of Rochester, in the county of Peoria. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That David Commissioners. H. Frisbie, Lorentus E. Conger, Andrew J. Dunlap, of the county of Knox, be and they are hereby appointed commissioners to lay out and establish a state road from the city of Galesburg, in Kuox county, to the town of Rochester, in Peoria county. 2. Said road shall be located upon the most practi- Location. cable and eligible route between the above named points. In viewing and locating the road, the said commissioners shall employ a competent surveyor and all necessary assis tants. Said road, when laid out, shall be and is hereby declared a state road, and shall be opened and kept in repair as other state roads. § 3. Said commissioners shall deliver a copy of their Report. report and plat of said road to the clerk of the county court of each county through which the said road may run, which shall be filed by such clerks in their respective offices. The board of supervisors of each county shall pay said Compensation. commissioners four dollars per day, for their time necessa rily employed in locating said road, together with the necessary expenses and the cost of surveying and platting said road, which shall be paid by the said counties in proportion to the number of miles of road in each county. 4. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. APPROVED March 15, 1869. AN ACT to vacate a road therein named and re-locate the same. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That the public highway known as the old Milwaukee road, commencing at a point where said road crosses the old plauk road near the center of section thirty, in township fortyfive, range twelve east, and running in a southerly direction to a point in township forty-four, where said road crosses the section line between sections five and six, in township forty four, range twelve east of the third principal meridian, be and the same is hereby vacated and annulied. In force March 15, 1869. Vacation. 2. That the said road be and the same is hereby lo- Location. cated, as follows: Commencing at a point where the old Milwaukee road crosses the road known as the old plank road, near the center of section thirty, in township forty five, range twelve east, and running south therefrom to the south line of said section on the line between land owned by A. D. Ritchie and R. Dady; then in a southerly direc tion through the west half of the north-east quarter of sec tion thirty-one, in township and range aforesaid, to a point where the old Milwaukee road crosses the half section line between the north-east and the south-east quarter of sec tion thirty-one; thence east on the half section line to the east line of said section thirty-one, to the Dougdale road; thence south on said road between sections thirty-one and thirty-two, in township and range aforesaid, and between sections five and six, in township forty-four, range twelve east, to a point where the old Milwaukee road crosses the line between sections five and six, in said township fortyfour, where said road shall resume the present traveled route of said highway. Said road shall be rendered passable as soon as practicable. 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. APPROVED March 15, 1869. In force March 31, 1869. AN ACT to vacate and re-locate a road herein named. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That all Road vacated. that part of the old highway or public road known as the Military road or Lake Shore road, or Chicago and Green Bay road, or by whatsoever name known, which lies between the south east corner of the north east quarter of the southeast quarter of section (4) four, township torty-three (43) north of range twelve (12), and the line running east and west through the centre of section ten (10), in said township, and in the county of Lake, be and the same is Road re-located hereby vacated and annulled, and in lieu thereof said road shall be and is hereby located along the east side of the Chicago and Milwaukee Railway, and adjoining the same from the said centre line of section ten (10) aforesaid, to the railroad crossing at the south line of lot number one (1) of the north-east quarter of section four (4) aforesaid, and thence along the west side of the said railway northward through the city of Lake Forest, to Westminster avenue; thence across the railway eastward to Depot avenue; thence northward on Depot avenue to Wisconsin avenue. Commissioners to locate. § 2. The commissioners hereinafter appointed, are hereby authorized to extend and locate the said road from a suitable point on said Wisconsin avenue northward, along the east side of said railway to the place where said highway now crosses said railway at its northernmost crossing in section four (4), of township forty-four (44), of the range aforesaid, and said commissioners are hereby authorized to go upon the lands along the said route and cause said road. to be platted and surveyed, and when so located, surveyed and platted, shall cause a copy of such survey and plat to be filed in the office of the county clerk of said county. § 3. Sylvester Lind, of Lake Forest, Daniel Brewer, of Waukegan, and A. K. Allen, of Highland Park, are hereby named and appointed as commissioners to carry ont the purposes of this act, and any two of the same concurring shall be sufficient in performing the duties hereby created. In case of the failure or refusal of any one or more of said commissioners to act, the place of such shall be filled by appointment by the county judge of said county, who is hereby authorized to make appointments to fill such vacancies. § 4. Said commissioners shall have power to employ a Compensation. surveyor, and such surveyor and each of said commissioners shall receive five dollars per day as compensation for each day engaged in performing the duties hereby imposed, the same to be paid from the county treasury of Lake county, on the order of the county clerk, who is authorized aud directed to draw the same in favor of each of said persons, on the certificate of a majority of said board. $ 5. Said commissioners shall assess all damages in favor of the owners of lands taken for said highway, in the same manner, and subject to the same limitations as are provided in case of commissioners appointed by a justice of the peace under the provisions of the statute relating to right of way, and the same right of appeal shall be allowed from the decision and award of said commissioners as is provided in said statute. Lake county to pay expenses Provisions of statute to apply pnt in 6. It shall be the duty of the commissioners of high- Road to ways of the several and respective townships through order. which said new road shall pass, to put the same in good order for public use as soon as practicable, after the passage of this act. 7. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. APPROVED March 31, 1869. be good AN ACT to locate a state road therein named. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That William Harrison, of Jackson county, Milton McKinsey, of Perry county, and Anthony Steele, of Randolph county, be and they are hereby appointed commissioners to survey and |