Sec[Section] 1: Be it enacted by the people of the state of Illinois represented in the General Assembly: That James Ballad John F. Youngkin, and William Eldridge be, and they are hereby appointed commissioners to view, locate and lay out a state Road from the Bon Pas bridge in section 22, township one north Range fourteen west in Edwards County to Bedell’s Mills an the Great Wabash River in Wabash County.

Sec 2. The said Commissioners shall meet at the house of Samuel Mundy in Wabash county on the first Monday in February next, or within twenty days thereafter, and having taken an oath, or affirmation, faithfully, impartially, and diligently to perform the duties imposed upon them by this act, shall proceed to view locate and lay out a road between the points named in the first section of this act, on the most eleigible route, having due regard to the convenience of the citizens and doing as little injury to private property as practicable and shall mark out the road when so located by them by distinct marks in the timber land and by substantial and durable posts set up in the prairies at suitable intervals ^on^ the route thereof.

Sec 3. The said commissioners shall make out and return to the clerk of the county commissioners court of Wabash county a full report of their proceedings had in pursuance of this act, designating the route of the said road; which report shall be filed and recorded by the said clerk, and the said road when so laid out located and marked shall be considered a state road, and the same shall ^be^ opened, worked and kept in repair, in the same manner as other state roads are opened, worked and kept in repair.

Sec 4. The said Commissioners shall be entitled to receive the sum of Two dollars per day for each days services, while employed in laying out said road, which with the other expenses attending the same shall be paid by the County Commissioners Court of Wabash County.