Sec[Section] 1^st Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois represented in the General Assembly; That John Orender of Marion County[,] William Lewis and John W Sullivan, be and they are hereby appointed commissioners to view and locate a State Road from John Ornender[’]s in the County of Marion to Elijah Nelsons, in the county of Clay.

Sec 2 Said Commissioners shall meet or any two of them at Lousville in the county of Clay on the first Monday of May next, or within sixty days thereafter, and after being duly sworn before some justice of the peac of said County faithfully and impartially to observe all the duties enjoined on them by this act; shall proceed to view and locate said Road Commencing at John Ornenders in the County of Marion, so as to intersect the State Road leading from Vandalia to Maysville, thence to cross the Little Wabash at Louisville below Green’s mill, thence with the county Road at or near Elijah Nelson[’]s, thence to intersect the State Road leading from Maysville to Louisville in the county of Lawrence.

Sec 3 Said Commissioners shall cause a map or survey of said Road to be filed in the office of the Clerk of the several County Commissioners Courts of the counties through which said road shall pass, and the County Commissioners’ Court of such counties shall allow the said Commissioners such compensation for their services as shall be just and reasonable, in proportion to services rendered in each County.

Sec 4 Said road shall be opened and kept in repair as other State roads are.