Sec.[Section] 4. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That Jacob Barton, William French, and Garrison W. Berry, be, and they are hereby, appointed commissioners to review and relocate a part of the State road leading from Jacksonville to Naples.

Sec. 2. Said commissioners, or any two of them, shall meet in the town of Jacksonville, on the first Monday in April next, or some day thereafter, and after having been duly sworn by some justice of the peace, to the faithful discharge of their duty as required in this act, shall proceed to review and relocate said State road as follows, to wit: Beginning at the northwest corner of Mr. Post’s fence, and running the old road until it strikes the half sectional line of section nineteen; thence following that line forty rods, and thence running in a west direction until it intersects the present road near Mr. Smith’s, and meets the road opened by Catlin and Duncan, on the west line of the east half of the southwest quarter of section twenty-four, township fifteen north, range eleven west, of the third principal meridian.

Sec. 3. After said commissioners shall have located said road, as provided for in the foregoing section, they shall make a map of the same, and also a written statement of the location, showing the changes made from the present travelled route, and return said map and written statement to the clerk of the county commissioners’ court of Morgan county, which shall be filed and preserved by said clerk. Said road, when so located, shall be and remain a State road, and shall be opened and kept in repair as other State roads are.

Sec. 4. All parts of the present road that are changed by said commissioners shall, after the relocation and opening of said new location, be vacated.

Sec. 5. Said commissioners shall receive, out of the county treasury of Morgan county, two dollars per day as a compensation for their services. This act to be in force from and after its passage.

Approved, February 9, 1839.