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

Sec. 1. That John M^cIntier, Alexander Douglass, and John Henley, be, and they are hereby, appointed Commissioners to view, mark, and locate a State road, from Thomas F. Andersons in Pope County, to New Port on the Ohio River; having a due regard in said location to a direct line, and the convenience of the citizens in the neighbourhood in which said road is to pass.

Sec. 2. The said Commissioners, or any two of them, shall meet at the house of Thomas F. Anderson in Pope County, on the first Monday in April, or in Sixty days thereafter; and being first duly sworn before some Justice of the Peace, faithfully to discharge the duties required of them by this act, shall proceed to view, mark and locate said road. The said Commissioners shall make a report, in writing, to the County

Commissioners Court as soon as said road is located; and said report shall form a part of the record of the said Court; and said road, thus laid out, shall be a State road; opened and kept in repair as other State roads.

Sec. 3. As soon as said road is opened, Williston T Read is hereby authorised to establish a Ferry at NewPort across the Ohio River. Provided however, there shall be nothing herein so construed, as to interfere with any road or ferry that the County Commissioners have established heretofore. This act to be in force from and after its passage.