Sec.[Section] 1 Be it enacted by the people of the state of Illinois represented in the General Assembly That J. B. Richardson of the County of Clark Joseph Picquet and Benjamin Eaton of the County of Jasper be, and they are hereby declared Commissioners to view, mark, and locate a State Road, beginning at the Town of York in Clark County, thence to William’s Mill on the North Fork of the Embarrass, river, thence to St. Marie in Jasper County and thence to Waterton in Clay County where it will intersect the Vincennes and St. Louis Turnpike

Sec 2. Said Commissioners or a Majority of them, shall meet a York on the first Monday in April next or as soon thereafter as practicable, and after being duly sworn by some Justice of the Peace faithfully to perform the duties required of them by this act, shall proceed to locate said road, avoiding as much as practicable the injury of private property

Sec 3. Said Commissioners shall within twenty days after having located said road make a report in writing to the County Commissioners Courts of the respective Counties through which said road shall pass and said report shall form a part of the records of said Courts; and the said road thus laid out shall be considered a public highway of this state, and the County Commissioners Courts of the several Counties through which said road passes shall cause said road to be opened and kept in repair as other state roads are

Sec 4. The County Commissioners Courts of the several Counties through which said road may pass shall allow said Commissioners a reasonable compensation for their services in proportion to the length of said road in each County