Section 1. Be it enacted, &c., That the Governor shall appoint six commissioners to select a site and build a hospital for injured persons, to be located at or near Shamokin, in the Trevorton, Shamokin, and Mount Carmel coal fields, embracing the county of Northumberland; said commissioners to be chosen from the county, who shall serve without compensation, other than their necessary traveling expenses incurred while in discharge of the duties herein prescribed and set forth.