Sec.[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That Henry Cheny, John Phillips and Joseph Whittenburgh, of the county of Washington, are hereby appointed commissioners to mark and locate a State road from Nashville, in Washington county, to Middleton’s old ferry, on the Kaskaskia river, at the crossing of the road leading from Nashville to Belleville, in St. Clair county.

Sec. 2. Said commissioners, or a majority of them, shall meet in the town of Nashville on the first Monday in April next, or within three months thereafter, and after having taken

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an oath before some justice of the peace faithfully to discharge the duties imposed upon them by this act, doing as little harm to private property as the public good will permit, shall proceed to locate said road, commencing at the south-west corner of J. D. Woods’ land, lying immediately west of Nashville, and running to the ferry aforesaid, locating said road on the nearest and best ground, putting up stakes in the prairie at proper distances, and marking trees in the timber.

Sec. 3. Said commissioners, after having made the location aforesaid, shall make out a report of their proceedings and present the same to the county court, whose duty it shall be to have said report entered upon the records of said court.

Sec. 4. Said commissioners shall receive for their services not more than one dollar and fifty cents per day each, to be paid out the county treasury for every day which they are necessarily employed in the discharge of the duties herein named.

Sec. 5. Said road shall be opened and kept in repair as other State roads are.

Approved, February 3, 1840.