Sec.[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That Annanias Elkins, Joseph Moore, and James Dillon, be, and they are hereby, appointed commissioners to review, mark, and relocate, so much of the State road leading from New Nashville, in Washington county, to Equality, in Gallatin county, as lies between the head of the Goose pond, in Franklin county, and Azariah Whitington’s, in said county.

Sec. 2. The said commissioners, or a majority of them, shall meet at the office of James Akins, Esq.[Esquire], on the first Monday in May next, or within thirty days thereafter; and after being duly sworn by said Akins, or some other justice of peace, shall proceed to review, mark, and relocate said road as aforesaid, having due regard to the public convenience and the best ground, doing as little injury as possible to private property.

Sec. 3. The said commissioners shall, as soon as practicable after discharging the duties required by this act, return a plat of their survey and location of the county court of Franklin, which shall be filed by the clerk of said court as a part of the record of said court; and the county commissioners of said county shall pay said commissioners, out of the county treasury of said county, two dollars per day for each day necessarily employed in performing the duties required of them as aforesaid; and the county commissioners’ court of said county of Franklin shall cause said road to be opened and kept in repair as other State roads are.

Approved, February 12, 1839.