Sec.[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That Joseph Lamar of Union county, John Munden of Jackson county, and William T. Ryburn of Franklin county, be, and they are hereby, appointed commissioners to review, mark, and locate, a State road from Jonesboro, in Union county, by way of Jonas Vancil’s, in Jackson county, to William T. Ryburn’s, sen., in Franklin county, over the best and nearest route, so as to intersect the Brownsville road leading to Frankfort.

Sec. 2. The said commissioners, or any two of them, shall meet in the town of Jonesboro on the first Monday of April next, or within ninety days thereafter, and having been duly sworn before some justice of the peace, faithfully to perform the duties required of them by this act, shall proceed to view, mark, and locate said road from point to point; and they shall make a report in writing to the next county commissioners’ court thereafter; which said report shall form a part of the records of said court; and the said road, so laid out, shall be deemed a State road, and shall be opened not less than sixty feet wide, and kept in repair as other State roads are.

Sec. 3. The county commissioners’ court of each of the aforesaid counties through which the said road passes shall pay their proportionate part of the compensation of said commissioners, out of the county treasury of each county, at the rate of two dollars per day for the number of days in which they shall be actually employed in reviewing, marking, and locating said road.

Approved, February 16, 1839.