Sec[Section] 1 Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois represented in the General Assembly That Alexander Campbell, of Perry County[,] James T Russle of Franklin County, and George H Hannah of Pope County, Be and they are hereby appointed Commissioners to view[,] mark[,] and locate a Road, by marking the Timber and setting stakes in the prairies so as to be easily followed, from Pinkneyville in Perry County, to Tiner’s Ferry on Big Muddy River in Franklin County thence to Golconda in Pope County the nearest and best route through the respective Counties in which said Road may pass, having in view the permanency of Said Road, and doing as little injury to private property as the public good will permit

Sec 2 The said commissioners or a majority of them Shall meet at Pinkneyville, on the first Monday in May next or within six months thereafter and after being duly sworn before some justice of the peace faithfully to discharge the duties enjoined for them by this act, Shall proceed to mark[,] view[,] and locate said Road [above] required, Said Commissioners shall make a report and map of the location of said Road giving the most noted points [thereon] and return a copy of said report to [each] clerk of the County Commissioners Courts [ in] the respective Counties through which [said] Road may run; which report shall [be]

---

filed in their offices, as a part of [the] records of said Counties. And said Road thus located and returned shall be [as is] hereby declared a public highway, and be and is hereby declared a public [high]way, and shall be opened and kept [in] repair as other State Roads are.

Sec 3 Said Commissioners shall receive [as a] compensation for their services in locating said Road a sum not exceeding two [dol]lars per day each for such [time as] they may be necessarily employed in [loca]ting said Road, which compensation shall [be] paid by the respective Counties in pro[port]ion on to the time they may be employed in each County while locating the same. Whenever Said Commissioners shall [have filed] a copy of said map and report [to the] clerks of said Counties duly certified [and] attested by them.

Sec 4 Said Commissioners are hereby auth[orized] and may relocate so much of the State Road leading from Golconda to Frank[fort] leaving said Road in Pope County on [the] top of the Pittulls Bluff, passing down [said] Bluff South of where the road now [passes] and intersecting the present Road near [Ben]jamin Bridges, then to run on the [North of] said Road so as to cross mill creek [at a] suitable place for a Bridge above high [water]

---

mark, known as the narrows on said Creek.

This act to take effect and be in force from and after its passage.