Sec[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That John S. Moore, John Johnson[,] and Joseph B. Eastburn, be and they are hereby appointed Commissioners to view[,] mark[,] and locate a State Road as hereinafter provided.

Sec 2. Said Commissioners or any two of them shall meet at the residence of Isaac Courtright in Iroquois County on the first Monday in May next or within one Month thereafter, and after having been first duly sworn by some Justice of the Peace of said County of Iroquois shall proceed to view[,] mark[,] and locate a State Road commencing at the State line at some eligible point in a direction from the Town of Lafayette in Indiana to the Town of Ottawa in La Salle County in this State.

Sec 3. Said Commissioners shall run said road from the place of beginning to the County seat of Iroquois County, thence to the Town of Plato. Thence to the Town of Ottawa in La Salle County, said Commissioners in the location of said road shall have due regard to private property as well as the permanency and public utility of said Road.

Sec 4. The Commissioners shall mark the location of said Road by chops on the trees through the timber and by setting stakes in the ground through the Prarie.

Sec 5^th Said Commissioners shall after locating said Road provided for in this act, make out written returns of their acts and doings in the location of the said Road a copy of which shall be returned to each of the Clerks of the County Commissioners Courts of the several Counties through which the road passes, said return being signed by the said Commissioners and returned as aforesaid, the Clerks of the County Commissioners Courts shall make record of the same.

Sec. 6. The County Commissioners of the several Counties through which said Road passes, shall cause said road to be opened, worked[,] and kept in repair as other state roads are

Sec 7. The County Commissioners Courts of the several Counties through which said Road passes shall allow to said road Commissioners a reasonable compensation for their services to be paid out of the County Treasuries of the Counties through which the road passes in proportion to the distance that the road runs through each of said CountiesThis act to be in force from and after its passage.