Sec.[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois represented in the general assembly, That Tho^s Klumph and J. H. Eby of Rock Island County and W^m P. Hull of Mercer County be, and they are hereby appointed Commissioners to view, locate and mark a Road commencing at a point on the Southern boundary of Mercer county where a state road from Monmouth in Warren County northwardly terminates, thence to M^cBrides Mills on pope Pope’s River and thence via Millersburgh in Mercer County to Illinois City in Rock Island County.

Sec. 2. The Commissioners aforesaid or a majority of them shall meet at the Town of Millersburgh in Mercer County on the first Monday in May 1839, or within four months thereafter and before entering on the duties of their appointment shall take an oath before some Justice of the peace, faithfully and impartially to locate said road, keeping in view the shortness of the route and the eligibility of the ground so as as to make the same a permanent road, distinctly marking the same[.] And to set a post on the right of the road with the miles marked thereon progressively.

Sec. 3. The said Commissioners so soon as they shall have completed the location of said road, shall make out a map which together with the field notes of the survey shall be filed with the Clerks of the County Commissioners’ Courts through which the same shall pass.

Sec. 4. Said road when laid out as aforesaid shall be deemed a public highway and shall be deemed a

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public highway, and shall be opened and kept in repair as such, and the County Commissioners’ Courts of the Counties of Mercer and Rock Island shall allow to the Commissioners engaged in laying out said road two dollars ($2.) per day, each, for the time necessarily engaged in laying out and making returns of the same according to the length of the road in each County; together with a reasonable allowance to the surveyor and other hands necessarily engaged in laying out said Road.