Sec.[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the people of the state of Illinois represented in the General Assembly, That Levi Williams and William Crawford of Hancock county and E. P. Wade of Adams county be and they are hereby appointed Commissioners to view[,] mark[,] and Locate a state road from warsaw in Hancock county to the town of Lima in Adams county, on the nearest and best rout, doing as little injury to private property as a due regard to the public good will permit.

Sec. 2. Said Commissioners or a majority of them shall meet at Warsaw on the first day of April next, or within three months thereafter, and after being duly sworn before some Justice of the Peace, faithfully to perform the duties required by this act shall proceed to lay out said road as provided in the proceeding section and shall designate the route of said road by placing stakes in the Prairie, and blazes on the trees, in the timber; the said Commissioners or a majority of them, shall as soon as the road shall be laid out, make and file a report in the Clerks office of the County Commissioners courts of Hancock and Adams Counties.

Sec. 3. Said road when so laid out and the road as now laid out from the town of Lima by order of the County Commissioners Court of Adams County by way of the bridge on Bear Creek to Quincy in said county, be and the same is hereby declared to be a state road and shall be opened four poles wide and kept in repair as other state roads.

Sec. 4. The Commissioners appointed by this act shall each receive a compensation for their servises, not exceeding one dollar and fifty cents per day for each day employed in locating said road, to be paid out of the treasuries of Hancock and Adams Counties in proportion to the length of the road laid out by them in each

Sec. 5. Be it further enacted that so much of the state Road from Warsaw in Hancock County to Peoria in Peoria county as lies between Warsaw and Carthage in Hancock county laid out under the authority of an act entitled an act to locate a state road from Warsaw in Hancock county to Peoria in Peoria County approved the 4^th of February 1837 is hereby declared a state road

Sec. 6. And the said location and survey is hereby declared to be legal and valid in all respects and shall not be set aside or held to be void and of no effect on account of any informality in locating said road whatever, and the said road as laid off and located by the said Commissioners, or any two of them, shall be opened[,] worked[,] and kept in repair as the law requires.