Sec.[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois Represented in the General Assembly That Walter Newton, John Terrell[,] and Abner Dill Be and they are hereby appointed Commissioners to view and locate a state Road in the County of Edgar Beginning at the State line at the termination of a state Road leading from Montazuma Indiana in Section Sixteen, Town, fifteen North, of Range ten west Thence on the nearest and best ground to the Town of Paris in the County aforesaid

Sec. 2. The said Commissioners or a majority of them, shall after being duly sworn before some Justice of the Peace meet at the place of beginning as set forth in the first section of this act, on the first day of april next or within sixty days thereafter and proceed to locate said Road, taking to their assistance a competent Surveyor, who shall survey and mark said Road noting the course and distance, and shall within twenty days thereafter, furnish the road Commissioners with a complete plat of ^the^ survey, whose duties it shall be to file the same with the Clerk of the County Commissioners Court, which report shall form a part of the records of said Court. And the said road so laid out shall be deemed a state Road, and shall be opened and kept in repair as other state Roads areThe County Commissioners Court shall pay to the said Road Commissioners, Surveyor[,] chainmen, and marker such Compensation as they may think just and right