Sec. [Section]1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That Isaac Wilson, Anson Root, Lemuel Morse, Alfred Churchill, Elder Ambrose, and Henry A. Miller, of Kane county, be, and they are hereby, appointed commissioners to view, mark, locate, and establish a State road from Fox river, in Kane county, westwardly, by a road running from Aurora, in said county, to Dixon’s ferry, in Ogle county.

Sec.[Section] 2. Said commissioners, or a majority of them, shall meet at the house of Isaac Wilson, in said county, on the first Monday in May next, or within six months thereafter, and, after being duly sworn by some justice of the peace faithfully to perform the duties required (of) them by this act, shall proceed to locate, mark, and establish said road, commencing on the west bank of Fox river, at or near a house built by Harvey Bristol and now occupid by Horace Town, in said county; thence running westwardly until said road so to be laid out shall strike the said road leading from Dixon’s ferry, taking into consideration the best route and the most advantageous ground for a permanent (road.)

Sec. 3. Said commissioners shall, within six months after the location of said road, make a report of their proceedings to the county commissioners’ court of the respective counties through which said road may pass. The said road, thus laid out and established, shall be a public highway of this State; and the county commissioners’ court of said counties shall cause the same to be opened and kept in repair as other roads are. Said commissioners and the surveyor employed by them to survey said road shall receive for their services a reasonable compensation, out the funds of the said counties through which the said road may pass, to be allowed by the county commissioners’ courts of said counties.

Approved, March 2, 1839.