Sec.[Section] 1 Be it enacted by the people of the state of Illinois represented in the general Assembly that William B. Davis & Edward G. M^c Clure of S^t Clair County and Joseph Kanyon Jun^r of Washington County be and they are hereby appointed Commissioners [to] view mark and locate a State road from Nashville in Washington County by the Town of Jefferson on the Kas Kaskia river in S^t Clair County, thence to intersect the road leading from Bellville to Athens at the South end of Presley Walkers land, to be located on the nearest and best ground.

Sec 2 Said commissioners or a majority of them shall meet at the said Town of Jefferson on the 1^st monday of April next or as soon thereafter as practicable and after being duly sworn shall proceed to perform the dutys required of them by this act. avoiding as much as possible the injury of private property

Sec 3 The said commissioners shall as soon as convenient cause to be filed with the Clerk of the County commissioners Court of each County a report of the location of said ^road^ naming the distance as near as may be of said road in each County which report shall be preserved and form a part of the ^records of^ said courts. Said road when located shall opened and kept in repair as other state roads are

Sec. 4 the county Commissioners Court of each county shall allow the commissioners such compensation as they may deem reasonable and just, to be paid according to the distance of said road i[n] each County