Sec[Section] 1 Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois represented in the General Assembly That Levi Williams of Hancock County, James Willard of Adams County[,] and Allen Persinger of Schuyler County be, and they are hereby appointed, Commissioners to view, mark, and locate, a State road from Meredocia in Morgan County, to Woodsville in Adams County, and from thence to Warsaw in Hancock County.

Sec 2 The said Comissioners or a majority of them shall meet at Meredocia on the first Monday of April next, or within three months thereafter, and after being Sworn before some Justice of the Peace, faithfully to discharge the duties required by this act, Shall proceed to view, mark[,] and locate said road, from point to point as directed by the first section of this act, upon the nearest and best route, avoiding as much as practicable, any injury to improvements and private property, on said route, and make and return to the County Commissioners Court, of each county through which said road shall pass, a certified report of said road, describing as nearly as practicable, the route and distance of said road, which shall be filed with the several Clerks of the County Commissioners Court, through which Said road Shall pass; within three months 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 may, of each county through which said road may pass, in their discretion allow to said Commissioners appointed under this act a sum not exceeding one dollar and fifty [c]ents per day, for each day necessarily employed by them in the discharge of the duties assigned them by this act to be paid out of the County treasuries, of each county through which Said road shall be located, in proportion to the extent of said road therein.

Sec 4 The County Commissioners Courts of the Counties through which said road may pass may if they think proper, cause said Commissioners appointed by this act, to have said road surveyed and plats thereof to be filed in the Clerks office of the County Commissioners Courts of of each County through which said road may pass, the expense thereof to be paid in the manner and proportion as provided by the third Section of this act.