Sec[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois Represented in the General Assembly That Stephen D Handy, and Joel Conolly, of Clark County, and Andrew Clark of Coles County are hereby appointed Commissioners to locate a State Road from Marshall in Clark County via New Richmond in the Richwoods to Charleston in Coles County via Southerlands Ford.

Sec 2. Said Commissioners or a majority of them shall meet at Marshall so soon as convenient in the month of February or March next and after having been duly sworn before some Justice of the Peace faithfully and impartially to perform the duties required of them by this Act shall proceed to view, survey, mark[,] and locate said Road placing the same on the most suitable ground and as direct as practicable for a useful, direct[,] and permanent road, and having so located the same they shall report the same giving a plat with the courses and distances to the Commissioners Court of each County named which shall be recorded at length.

Sec 3. Said road shall be four poles wide, and shall be opened, worked and kept in repair as other state Roads are, and it is hereby made the duty of the Commissioners Court of each County to cause the same to be worked and improved to make the same passable and convenient for travel.

Sec 4. The County Commissioners of Clark and Coles shall pay said Reviewers the sum of one dollar and fifty cents per day, each County paying its just proportion of the same, for every day necessarily engaged in said service.