sec[section] 1^st Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois Represented in the General Assembly, That Aaron Dalby of Vermilion County and John W Swearingen and James Freeman of Champaign County be and are hereby appointed Commissioners to survey[,] mark[,] and locate a road commencing on the State road from Danville to Decatur at or near the residence of William Hardin in Vermilion County and running thence due west to the line divideing the farms of Joseph Yount and John Redman, thence North with said line sixty rods thence on the best route through the town of Homer to inter sect the road aforesaid at or near James Orr[’]s in Champaign County

sec 2^nd Said Commissioners or a majority of them shall meet [at the town of Homer] in Champaign County on the first day in March next or within three months thereafter who after being duly sworn by some Justice of the Peace in said County shall proceed to survey, mark[,] and locate said road as aforesaid doing as little damage to private property as the public good will admit of said road to be opened sixty feet wide and kept in repair as other State roads are

sec 3^d said commissioners shall make or cause to be made and transmitted to the clerks of the County Commissioners court of the Counties of Vermilion and Champaign a correct plat of so much of said road as lies in each County to be filed and preserved in their respective offices.