Sec[Section] 1^st Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois Represented in the General Assembly, “That Ira Reynolds[,] Fredrick Graves of Johnson County and Ragedale Rowlen of Franklin County, be and they are hereby appointed commissioners to view Locate and marke out a State road from ^71^ Frankfort in Franklin County, the nearest and best practicable rout to Viana in Johnson County and from Vianna the nearest and most practicable rout to Wilcox's ferry on the Ohio River, in said County.

Section 2. The said commissioners or a majority of them shall meet at frankfort on the first day of may, or within six months thereafter and after being duly sworn by some Justice of the peace faithfully to observe the provissions of this act shall proceed to view ^&^ Locate said road taking into consideration the Local situation of the country and the public conveniance, and shall fix said Road on the most advantagious ground for a permanent Road, and the said commissioners shall on or before the first Monday of December next make a return of their proceedings on said road, which being signed by them or a majority of them a duplicate of which shall be delivered one to the county commissioners court of Johnson county and the other to the county commissioners court of Franklin county.

Sec 3. That said road when Laid out as aforesaid shall be deemed and considered a State road & shall be opened worked and kept in repair as other State roads are, and the said commissioners, so appointed shall receive such compensation out of the County Treasurys of their respective counties through which said road may pass as the respective commissioners court, may deem Just and reasonable, the county of Johnson paying. The two commissioners from that county and the County of Franklin paying the one commissioner residing in said county.

Sec 4^th
That the county commissioners court of Johnson County shall at the Term of said court next Succeeding the Location of said Road proceed to contract for the improvement of such parts of said Road as they may deem proper within the County of Johnson until they shall have expended the two Hundred and twenty dollars which was appropriated to said county of Johnson by an act entitled an act making appropriations out of the state treasury march the 1^st 1833.