Sec[Section] 1 Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois represented in the General Assembly; That the route heretofore laid out by B. W. Brooks, Daniel Kimmer and Peter Casper, from the town of Jonesborough to Snider’s ferry on the Mississippi River be, and the same is hereby declared a state road which shall be opened and kept in repair as other state roads.

Sec 2 That there shall be opened, in the poll books in the several precincts in the County of Union at the next August election for Justices of the peace, two columns in which shall be entered by the clerks of elections in said precincts the votes of the qualified voters in said County for or against the establishment of the road named in the first section of this act; the returns whereof shall be made and canvassed as provided in cases of Justices of the peace: Provided, that if the road established by the first section of this act shall not receive a majority of all the qualified votes given at said election it shall not become a state road any thing in this act to the contrary notwithstanding.