Sec[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the people of the state of Illinois represented in the General Assembly: That Luther C Chamberlain of Cook county and William Stadden and Daniel F Hill of La Salle county, be and they are hereby appointed commissioners to view survey, mark and locate a Road from the termination of the Indiana State Road (which leads from Laport in said state to the line of this State, in the direction of the Grand Rapids of the Illinois River) to Ottowa in La salle county by the way of Marseilles, varying as little as practicable from a direct line[?] having in view the most eligible route its permanency, and due regard to the public convenience.

Sec 2. That said commissioners, or a majority of them, shall meet on the third monday of May next, or as soon thereafter as may be, at the town of Juliet in Cook county, and being first duly sworn before some Justice of the peace faithfully to discharge the duties required of them by this act shall proceed to view, mark and locate said road, and as soon as practicable thereafter cause to be made a map of the survey of said road, certified by them, and forward a copy thereof to the clerk of the county Commissioners Court of each of the counties through which said road shall pass, which shall be by him filed in his office. And the said road, thus laid out, shall be, and is hereby declared a public state Road, and shall be opened and kept in repair in the same manner as other public roads are.

Sec 3. Said commissioners shall receive for their services two dollars per day for all the time necessarily employed in said work, together with a reasonable componsation for one Surveyor two claim carriers and one marker which several sums shall be paid by the counties through which said road shall pass in proportion to the extent of said road in each