Sec.[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That Turner S. Nichols, of Clinton county, Thomas Robinson and John D. Brown, of Fayette county, be, and they are hereby, appointed commissioners to view, mark, and locate a State road, on the nearest and best ground, doing as little damage to private property as possible, from Joseph Huey’s, in Clinton county, to intersect the road leading from Salem to Vandalia at or near the Hickory creek bridge; thence to intersect the road leading from Hardy Foster’s to Shelbyville, in the northeast corner of Fayette county.

Sec. 2. The said commissioners, or a majority of them, shall meet at the house of Joseph Huey, in Clinton county, on the first Monday in the month of May next, or some day thereafter, and, before entering on the duties assigned them by this act, shall take an oath before some justice of the peace of Clinton county faithfully and impartially to discharge the duties enjoined on them by this act, shall proceed to locate the said road as provided for in the first section of this act; and the road so laid out is hereby declared a State road; and it is hereby made the duty of the county commissioners’ court of each of the counties through which the same may pass to cause the same to be opened and kept in repair as other State roads are; and shall also allow each of the commissioners, out of their respective county treasuries, a reasonable compensation per day for the time actually spent in locating said road in the respective counties.

Approved, March 2, 1839.