Sec[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois represented in the General Assembly that Thomas B Peyton of Coles County and Jesse Ellis of Shelby County are hereby appointed Commissioners to view[,] mark [,]and locate a State road from Charleston in Coles County to or near James Keller[’]s on the Springfield trace in Macon County, via the dead mans grove in Coles County crossing the Kaskaskia at or near Hawkins Fuller [’]s

Sec^t[Section] 2. Said Commissioners or a majority of them shall meet at H Fuller[’]s on or before the first day of September next and after being duly sworn to faithfully perform the duties required of them shall proceed to view[,] mark[,] and locate said road and when located they shall transmit plats thereof to the Clerks of the County Commissioners Courts of the respective Counties through which it passes and when located it shall be to all intents and purposes a State Road

Sec 3. The County Commissioners Courts of the Counties through which the road passes shall allow said Commissioners a reasonable compensation for the services in proportion to the time employed in each County by said Commissioners