Sec[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly.

That John Blackstone, and Benjamin Butterfield of Cook County and Holder Cifon of Will County be and they are hereby appointed Commissioners to view and locate a State Road from Thornton to Lockport, thence to Plainfield and from thence to a point on the State Road from Chicago to Dixon’s Ferry at or near Blackberry Creek.

Sec 2. Said Commissioners or a Majority of them shall meet at Thornton at a convenient time in May next and being duly sworn before some Justice of the Peace of the County faithfully and impartially to discharge the duties assigned them by this Act, shall proceed to view, mark[,] and locate said road on the nearest and best ground for a permanent road, making the same as direct as possible, having a due regard to private property.

Sec 3. They shall return a plat to each County Commissioners Court through which said road shall pass, giving the Courses and distances, to be recorded, establishing the same eighty fee wide, and which shall be opened and kept in repair as other State Roads are.

Sec 4. Said Commissioners shall receive two dollars per day each for each and every day necessarily employed together with all reasonable incidental expenses by them incurred, the whole account to be made out and certified, to be paid out of the Treasury of Cook and Will Counties each paying a Moiety thereof.