Sec.[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois , represented in the General Assembly, That Matthew McClure, of Alexander county, John L. Cooper, of Johnson county, and William Sharp, of Pope county, be, and they are hereby, appointed commissioners to view, survey, and locate a road from Jameson’s ferry, in Pope county, to the Mississippi river, in Alexander county, opposite to Cape Girardeau, in the State of Missouri.

Sec. 2. The said commissioners, or a majority of them, shall meet at Jameson’s ferry, on the first Monday of June next, or within three months thereafter, who, after being duly sworn by some justice of the peace faithfully to discharge the duties enjoined on them by the provisions of this act, shall proceed to view, survey, and locate the said road between the points named in the first section of this act, upon the most eligible and direct route, via or near the Cache bridge2, in Alexander county, and Hazlewood, on Sexion’s creek, doing as little injury to private property as possible.

Sec. 3. The said road, when laid out as aforesaid, shall be deemed a public highway; and the county commissioners’ courts of the several counties through which said road may pass, shall appoint supervisors over said road, and cause the same to be opened and kept in repair as other State roads are.

Sec. 4. The commissioners appointed under the provisions of this act shall receive a just compensation for the time they are necessarily employed in the several counties herein mentioned, each county paying for the time necessarily employed therein.

Sec. 5. This act to be in force from and after its passage.

Approved, March 2, 1839.