Sec[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That Josephus Hewitt, Phillip C. Latham and William Carpenter of Sangamon County, be, and they are hereby appointed commissioners, to view, mark and locate a State road commencing at the Public Square in the Town of Springfield and running north with the Galena road to where the half mile line ^East & West^ runing through section 27, Town 16 north of Range 5 West crosses said Road, thence east with said half mile line untill it intersects the present located road from Springfield to Decatur.

Sec. 2. The said commissioners shall meet at the town of Springfield on the first monday in April next or within thirty days thereafter, and after being duely sworn before some Justice of the peace, faithfully to discharge the duties enjoined on them 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, ^&^ by fixing permanently in the ground white oak posts, at least twelve inches square and three feet above the surface threof, at the end of every half mile, ^x^ and shall make out and return a complete plat of said road when so located to the ^county^ commissioners court of said county, which shall be filed with the clerk of said court; 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 Court of said county shall allow said commissioners a reasonable compensation for their services, to be paid out of the county treasury of said county

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