Sec.[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois Represented in the General Assembly That Robert Palmer[,] Robert G. Allen and Harvey Landers be and they are hereby appointed Commissioners to mark, view, survey[,] and locate a State Road on the nearest and most eligible route from the Lake Fork bridge, on the Jacksonville and Greenville State Road one half mile South of Bailey Taylor[’]s, and from thence via Sparta to the Edwardsville Road at Elias Gwin[’]s on the dry fork of the Macoupin Creek

Sec 2. The said Commissioners shall meet at Sparta on the first Monday in April next, or within one Month thereafter, and after having been duly sworn before some Justice of the Peace of said County to the faithful discharge of their duties shall proceed to view, mark[,] and locate said road as soon as practicable thereafter and cause to be made out a Report of the location of said Road, designating the most important points thereon , And as soon as practicable return a copy of the same to the Clerk of the County Commissioners Court of Macoupin County, which shall be by him, filed in his Office, And said Road thus laid out, shall be, and is hereby declared a State Road, and shall be opened and kept in repair as other public roads

Sec 3 The County Commissioners Court of the County of Macoupin shall allow said Commissioners a reasonable compensation for their services to be paid out of the County Treasury of said County