Sec.[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, ThatGeorge McHenry , James Withrow, and John H. Hanna, be, and they are hereby, appointed commissioners to view and relocate so much of the State road leading from Stephenson to the mouth of the Pickatonica, as lies between Earl P. Aldrich and George McHenry’s, on said road, commencing at Earl P. Aldrich’s; thence to Solomon Penny’s, leaving Penny’s farm on the south; thence, north of E. E. Renehaw’s, to a line between N. Whitrow’s farms; running thence, with a furrow made by plowing, north of James Tabor, A. W. Becks, and Joseph Browning, intersecting the present road at or nearGeorge McHenry ’s, having due regard to private property.2

Sec. 2. The commissioners aforesaid, or a majority of them, shall meet at some convenient place in the neighborhood of that part of the road proposed to be changed, on the first Monday of June next, or within six months thereafter; and, before entering upon the duties assigned them by this act, shall take an oath before some justice of the peace, faithfully to discharge the duties imposed by this act; and shall proceed to run, mark, and relocate said road; and after they

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shall have completed said work, they shall make out a report describing said road as relocated, and deliver a copy to the county commissioners’ court of Henry county, where the same shall be filed; and the court shall allow said commissioners a reasonable compensation for their services.

Sec. 3. After said commissioners shall have changed that part of said road, it shall be opened and kept in repair, as other roads are.

Approved, February 12, 1839.