Sec.[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That James A. Bell and John B. Curl, of the county of Adams, and John McAllister of the county of Pike, be and they are hereby appointed commissioners to view, mark, and locate a State road from the town of Quincy, in Adams county, to Philip’s ferry, in Pike county,

Sec. 2. Said commissioners shall meet at Philips’ ferry on the first Monday in the month of May next, or within three months thereafter, and after being sworn by some justice of the peace, faithfully to discharge the duties required of this act, shall proceed to view, mark, and locate said road upon the nearest and most practicable route from said ferry to Quincy, in Adams county, avoiding personal injury as much as the public good will admit of; and they shall make and return to the county commissioners court through which said road shall pass a certified report and plat of said road, describing as nearly as practicable, the courses and distances of said road, which shall be filed with the several clerks of the county commissioners courts through which said road shall pass, within one month after said road is or shall have been located; and said road, when so located, shall be deemed a State road and kept in repair as other state roads are.

Sec. 3. The county commissioners courts of each county through which said road shall pass, shall allow, agreeably to the time necessarily employed by said commissioners in each county, such sums per diem as may, in their opinion be just and reasonable, to be paid out of the several county treasuries through which said road passes.

Sec. 4. Said commissioners shall have liberty to employ such assistance as they may think necessary in surveying and marking out said road, which hands so employed, shall be compensated as the commissioners are.

Approved, 7th February, 1837.