Sec.[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That Thomas J. Knox, William King, senior, and Gersham Keys be, and they are, hereby, created a board of commissioners for the purpose of examining the various routes proposed for a change in the road leading from Springfield to Decatur as lies between Springfield and the house of Reason Judd.

Sec. 2. Said commissioners, or a majority of them, shall meet in the town of Springfield on the first Monday of April next, or as soon thereafter as may be agreed on by said commissioners, and, after being first duly sworn to perform said duties to the best of their skill and abilities, shall then proceed to view all the proposed routes between the points named in the first section of this act; and when a majority of said commissioners shall agree on a route for said road, then said commissioners shall employ a surveyor and other necessary hands, and shall proceed to survey said road, and shall take course and distance from place to place, and continue said survey to the west end of David Hall’s farm, on said road; then said commissioners shall make out a complete map of the course and distance of said road, and return the same to the clerk of the county commissioners’ court of Sangamon county, who shall enter the same on record in his office.

Sec. 3. The county commissioners of said county shall allow said commissioners, and others employed by them, a reasonable compensation, to be paid out of the treasury of said county.

Sec. 4. When said road is thus laid out, the county commissioners shall cause the same to be opened and kept in repair, of sufficient width to admit of a free and easy passage for all kinds of carriages commonly used on such roads.

Approved, February 22, 1839.