Sec.[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois, represented in the general assembly, That the survey and location of the State road leading from Farmington in Fulton county to Richmond in Henry county, or so much thereof as may have been surveyed and located by the commissioners appointed to survey and locate said road under an act entitled “An act to locate and establish, and alter, change and relocate State roads” be and the same is hereby legalized, and the county commissioners courts of the countries through which said road pass, are authorized and required to a[?] and record the report of said commissioners and pay them and others employed by them such compensation for the time necessarily employed, as are allowed to commissioners and others for locating roads under the before recited act.

Sec. 2 That Peter Elmore, Jacob Merrill and John Clary are hereby appointed commissioners to alter and re-locate the State road from Petersburg to Millers ferry in Menard county, viz, that part of said road which lies between said town and Samuel Berry’s so that the said road will not run through the farms of George Wagoner, Low Jackson, Elihu Springer and others, said commissioners

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to meet at Petersburg.

Sec 3. That Thomas Jones, William Miller of Montgomery county and John A M^cLane of Bond county be and they are hereby appointed commissioners to re-locate so much of the State road leading from Greenville to Hillsboro as lies between the south end of Miller’s lane in Montgomery county and to the point where it intersects the State road leading from Greenville to Jacksonville in Bond county passing by Elm point and intersecting said road between the five and six mile posts—commissioners to meet at said Millers.

Sec. 4 That John Drury of Coles county William of Shelby county and Joel W. Gillenwaters of Effingham c[ounty] are hereby appointed commissioners to view survey and locate a State road from Shelbyville by Houchins’ mills on the Little Wabash river, from thence to intersect the State road leading from Charleston to Lawrenceville near the head of mint point on the waters of the Embarrass river—commissioners to meet at Shelbyville

Sec. 5. That William Worthen, John Hanson and Jesse Elmore of Jackson county are hereby appointed commissioners to view and re locate a part of the State road from Brownsville to Pills ferry on the

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the above mentioned point on the old road leading from H. J. Mills to Albion until it intersects the section line of sections seven and eighteen, thence west on said line to the half mile corner thence straight to the bridge across Indian creek, thence to intersect the State road again.

Sec. 8. That Eliphas Gorham of Fulton county, Thomas Moulton of Warren county and Edward White of Hancock county be and they are hereby appointed commissioners to view, survey and locate a State road from Appanooce in said Hancock county to Ellisville in Fulton county running from appanooce through the south tier of townships in Warren county and past Gorhams [?]n Fulton county to Ellisville.

Sec. 9. That the new State road from Mount Sterling to Quincy be altered so as to run on the old county road from Mount Sterling to William Davis’, to the point where the new road crosses the said county road on section three 1. S.[South] 4. W.[West] being about four and one half miles westward from Mount Sterling, and that said road be opened four rods wide, and that part of said new road is hereby vacated and annulled.

Sec. 10 That Elisha Tender of Coles county, John Houchin of Shelby county and John Galloway of Effingham county be and they are hereby appointed commissioners to view, survey and locate a State road from Richmond in Coles county, thence through Paradise, from thence by Houchins’ mills on Little Wabash, from thence by the head of Shoal creek Effingham county, and thence to intersect the State road leading from Shelbyville to Maysville at Blue point in Effingham County.

Sec. 11 That the State road from Columbus to Chambersburg be altered and re-located as follows, viz, commencing at the east line of the north west quarter of section 35. T.[Township] 2. S. R.[Range] 3. W. in Brown county running due west to the west line of said section, thence to the south west corner of the east half of the north east quarter of section 28. thence to the north west of the said half quarter to intersect the said road now laid out, and that the same as now established be opened four rods wide—and so much of the state road as changed by this act be annulled and vacated.

Sec. 12. That Henry Harrison Jr and Jonathan Medsker of Clark county be and they are hereby directed to expend the appropriations, of three thousand dollars, on the road from York near Martinsville to Charleston, from the point where the roads from Bartletts and Wells [?] north of Anglins, to Martinsville on a straight line from said junction or near there to Martinsville running on the old road as near as practicable to save the improvement already made and from Martinsville to the county line of Coles as they may deem best for the public good, no part of said appropriations shall be expended south of said junction of roads, and they shall without delay cause said appropriations to be expended.2

Sec. 13. That the [...?] of Andrew Burke of Montgomery county and James Abbot of shelby county be and they are hereby appointed commissioners to view, survey and locate

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the road authorized by the act entitled “an act for a State road from Shelbyville, in Shelby county, to Hillsboro in Montgomery county approved March 2. 1839.[”] the former commissioners having failed to locate the same and the commissioners hereby appointed are directed to carry into effect the provisions of said act.

Sec. 14. That Thomas A. Gray of Montgomery county be and the[y are] hereby authorized to change the roa[d] leading from Fords’ ferry to Jacksonville so as to make the same run on the east side of his house and intersect the present travelled route at or near Robert Canady’s

Sec. 15 That the commissioners herein named on the several roads shall convene at such point or points as they may agree shall be sworn faithfully and impartially to discharge the duties enjoined upon them before any justice of the peace of the State, they shall locate said roads with a view to permanancy and the public good doing as little injury

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to private property as the public interest will permit, they shall make out reports to the several county commissioners courts through which such roads may pass to be filed and recorded, and each county shall pay a proportion of the expence agreeably to the length of road in the county allowing said commissioners one dollar and fifty cents per day each for the time necessarily employed and to surveyors two dollars and fifty cents and for the hands, chainmen axe men & one dollar each per day, to be paid by the counties interested as above stated.