Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinos represented in the General Assembly; That Russell Post[,] Jonas Whitney, and Nathan Bresey be, and they are hereby appointed commissioners, to view, mark[,] and locate a Road, to comence (at a point on the State Road from Danville to Bloomington near the South East corner of M^cClain County, thence to Waynesville in M Lean County) thence to Syracuse on Section six, Town twenty North. Range four west from the third principal meridian, in the county of Sangamon, thence to Havana in the County of Tazwell.

Sec[Section] 2 Said commissioners shall meet at the Town of Urbana, on or before the first Monday of June next or within sixty days thereafter, and after being sworn by some justice of the peace, to discharge their duties under this act, faithfully and impartially, shall proceed to mark[,] vew, locate[,] and survey said Road, and shall file a survey and field notes, together with a map of said Road, in the office of the clerks of the County Commissioners Courts of the several Counties through whchich the same may pass.

Sec 3 Said Road when laid out as aforesaid shall be deemed a State Road, and the County Commissioners Courts of the several counties through which the same may pass Shall cause the same to be opened, and worked and kept in repair as other State roads are.

Sec 4 Said Commissioners shall be authorised to employ a County Surveyor of some one of the Counties through which said road may run, and the necessary chainmen to survey said Road, and said Surveyor and Chainmen shall receive a reasonable compensation for their services to be paid out of the county treasuries of the several Counties, proportional to the number of miles of said Road in each County.

Sec 5 The said Commissioners shall make a full report of their doings under this act and file the same with the Survey, field notes and map of said Road, and shall each be allowed the sum of two Dollars per day for their services to be paid proportionally out of the County treasuries of the several Counties through which said Road may run.

This act to be in force forom and after its passage.