Sec[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois Represented in the General assembly, That John Phelps W^m W Linn and James L Kirkpatrick are hereby appointed commissioners to view Survey and locate a road from Chicago in Cook county to Galena in Jo Davis County

Sec 2^nd The Commissioners or a majority of them, or any one of them, Shall on the first Monday in June 1835 or so Soon thereafter as may be, assemble at the Town of Chicago and after being duly Sworn before some Justice of the peace faithfully to observe the provisions of this act proceed to view and Locate Said road, making Meachams Grove in Cook County and the residence of the Said John Phelps on Rock River in JoDavis County points on the said road, and shall fix the Said road on the most advantageous ground having referance

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to Said points, for a permanant road and the Said commissioners Shall, on or before the first day of November next, make or cause to be made, true Surveys and maps of Said road, Signed by them, to be lodged with each of the county Commissioners Courts in the counties respectively, through which Said road passes: which road, when laid out as aforesaid, shall be deemed and considerd a public state road and the County Commissioners Courts of the Counties through which the Said road is located, Shall cause the same to be opened four poles wide, and to be worked and kept in repair as other public roads are; provided however that the Commissioners appointed in the first section of this act shall not receive from the State Treasury, nor the Treasuaries of the counties through which the Said road passes any compensation for their Services

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for the location of Said road

Sec 3^rd The said John Phelps is hereby authorised to establish a ferry on rock river at the point on Said road where the Said road crosses the Same, and the Said ferry when so established shall be governed by the Same laws, rules and regulations as other ferries in this State are, and it shall be the duty of the County Commissioners Court of Jo Davis County annully at the June term of said Court to fix the rates of ferriage across said River.