Sec[Section] 1 Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois represented in the General Assembly, That James W. Singleton, sen. ^of Brown county^ andJohn L. Ewing , of Schuyler county, and Hugh Kincade, of M^cDonough county, be, and they are hereby appointed Commissioners to view[,] mark[,] and locate a State road from Mount Sterling, in schuyler county via Dunlap’s mill on the little Missouri thence to the south west corner of township N^o. 3, north, and range nuber 3 west of the fourth principal medridian; thence to Roles’ mill on Crooked creek; and thence to McComb, in M^cDonough county.

Sec 2 The commissioners aforesaid, or a majority of them, shall meet at the town of Mount Sterling, on the first Monday of April next or within six months thereafter, and after having been sworn by some Justice of the Peace, faithfully and impartially to discharge the duties required of them by this act, shall proceed to view, mark[,] and locate said road, keeping in view the shortness of the route, and the eligibility of the ground, so as to make the same as convenient and permanent as practicable.

Sec 3 The said commissioners, so soon as they shall have completed said work, shall make out a map or plat of said road, giving the courses, distances, streams, notable places, &c.[etc]; and shall file a copy of the same with the Clerk of the county Commissioners’ Court, in each county through which the said road may pass, which shall be recorded at length in the books of said Courts.

Sec 4 The county Commissioners’ Courts of said counties through which said road may pass, shall allow the

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said commissioners a reasonable compensation for their services in proportion to the length of said road in the several counties through which said road may pass, and the said county Commissioners shall cause said road to be opened and kept in repair in the same manner as other state roads are required to be done.