Sec.[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois Represented in the General Assembly That Nathan Wells[,] John Chancellor[,] and Jacob Neel be and they are hereby appointed Commissioners to view and locate a State Road from York to New Richmond in Clark County

Sec 2. Said Commissioners or a majority of them shall meet at the Town of York on the first Monday of March next or within sixty days thereafter, and after being duly sworn before some Justice of the peace of the County of Clark, faithfully and impartially to discharge the duties enjoined upon them by this act shall proceed to survey and locate a state Road from York commencing at the corner of Union and fish Street ^12^ in the County of Clark to Martinsville thence1 to New Richmond in the said County of Clark, thence to intersect the State Road leading from Charleston in Coles County to Marshall in Clark County, upon the best and most practicable route

Sec 3. Said Commissioners shall lay out said Road four poles wide, and within ten days thereafter shall cause a complete map or survey of said Road, to be filed with the Clerk of the County Commissioners Court of Clark County, and the County Commissioners of said County shall allow said Commissioners such compensation shall be just and equitable

Sec. 4. Said Road shall be kept in repair when so laid out as other State Roads are