Sec[Section] 1 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois represented in the General Assembly; That Robert Toler of Clay County[,] William H Hawkins of Effingham county[,] and Edward Reed of Shelby County be, and they are hereby appointed Commissioners to view, survey and locate a state road to commence at Maysville in Clay county, thence to Ewington in Effingham County and thence to Shelbyville in shelby County

Sec 2. The Commissioners aforesaid, or a majority of them, shall meet at Maysville in Clay county on the first day of May next or some day thereafter, that may be agreed upon by said commissioners; and before entering on the duties assigned them by this act, shall take an Oath before some Justice of the peace, faithfully and impartially to locate said road keeping in view the shortness of the route, and the eligibility of the ground, so as to make the same a permanant road. And whenever said road may be located through the prarie land it shall be the duty of said commissioners to place a stake four feet high firmly in the ground at the distance of every quarter of a mile on the same.

Sec 3. The said Com[mi]ssioners so soon as they shall have completed said work, shall make out a map under their hands, with the courses, distances, streams, and such other estimates and remarks as they shall deem

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interesting and return the same to the county commissioners courts of each county through which the same shall pass, which shall be filed in said courts.

Sec. 4. Said road when laid out as aforesaid shall be deemed a public highway; and the county commissioners courts of said counties shall cause the same to be opened four poles wide, and to be worked and kept in repair as other state Roads are. The respective County Commissioners Courts of said counties shall allow said commissioners a reasonable compensation for their services, not exceeding one dollar and fifty cents per day, for each day neccessarily employed in the discharge of said work to be paid out of their respective County treasuries.

This act to take effect and be in force from and after its passage.