Sec[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the people Of the state of Illinois Represented in the General Assembly that Bushrod W. Henry of the County of Shelby and Wm Warnick of the County of Macon be and they are hereby appointed commissioners to lay out a state road from Shelbyville in Shelby County to Decatur in Macon County

Sec 2 Said Commissioners shall meet at Shelbyville on or before the twenty fifth of September next; and after taking an oath before some Justice of the Peace in said Town to observe the obligations of this act, shall proceed to view and lay out said road on the nearest and best way from said Town of Shelbyville to or near Wilbourn^s^ point thence through Brush creek point thence to Allens Bridge and thence to Decatur in Macon County. And as soon as practicable thereafter cause to be made out a report of the location of said Road, designating the most noted points thereon, and return a copy of the same to the Clerk of the county commissioners Court of each of said Counties, which shall be by him filed in his office; and said road thus laid out, shall be, and is hereby, declared a public state road, and shall be opened and kept in repair in the same manner as other Public roads are.

Sec[Section] 3. Said Commissioners shall be paid two dollars per day, ^each^ chain carriers two dollars pr[per] day each and the surveyor two dollars and fifty cents pr day out of the Treasury of each county equally.