Sec.[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That Levi Williams and William Crawford, of Hancock county, and E. P. Wade, of Adams county, be, and they are hereby, appointed commissioners to view, mark, and locate, a State road from Warsaw, in Hancock county, to the town of Lima, in Adams county, on the nearest and best route, doing as little injury to private property as a due regard to the public good will permit.

Sec. 2. Said commissioners, or a majority of them, shall meet at Warsaw on the first Monday in May next, or within three months thereafter, and, after being duly sworn before some justice of the peace faithfully to perform the duties required by this act, shall proceed to lay out said road as provided in the preceding section; and shall designate the route of said road by placing stakes in the prairie, and blazes on the trees in the timber. The said commissioners shall, as soon as the road shall be laid out, make and file a report in the clerks’ office of the county commissioners’ courts of Hancock and Adams counties.

Sec. 3. Said road, when so laid out, and the road as now laid out from the town of Lima by order of the county commissioners’ court of Adams county, by way of the bridge now being built on Bear creek, to Quincy, in said county, be, and the same is hereby, declared to be a State road, and shall be opened four poles wide, and kept in repair as other State roads.

Sec. 4. The commissioners appointed by this act shall each receive a compensation for their services, not exceeding two dollars for each day employed in locating said road, to be paid out of the treasuries of Hancock and Adams counties, in proportion to the length of the road laid out by them in each.

Approved, February 22, 1839.