practicable route, by the county seat of Dodge county, to Madison.

SEO. 19. That Elbert Dickinson, Jacob Dickinson and Horace Dodge, be and are hereby appointed commissioners to lay out and establish a Territorial road from Madison, on the most practicable route, by the way of Fountain Prairie to Fox Lake.

SEC. 20. That E. B. Brown, Charles H. Dailey, and Edward West,be and hereby [are] appointed commissioners to lay out and establish a Territorial road from Summit, in Milwaukee county, on the most direct and practicable route, to Fond du Lac.

SEC. 21. That Albert S. Story, David Giddings and Theodore Conkey, be and are hereby appointed commissioners to lay out and establish a Territorial road from Sheboyagan, by the most direct and practicable route to Fond du Lac.

SEC. 22. That Warren Chase, Samuel W. Beall and P. V. Sang, be and are hereby appointed commissioners to lay out and establish a Territorial road from Fond du Lac, by the way of Ceresco, on the best route to Fort Winnebago.

SEC. 23. That Wooster Harrison, Isaac C. Loomis and Theodore Conkey, are hereby appointed commissioners to lay out and establish a Territorial road from Washington Harbor, in Washington county, to Fond du Lac.

SEC. 24. Thomas C. Smith, Ezekiel Houton and Lafayette Hill, be and are hereby appointed commissioners to lay out and establish a Territorial road commencing at Columbus, in Portage county, to Dekora, in the same county.

SEC. 25. That Richard F. Rising, Allen Perkins and George S. Clark, are hereby appointed commissioners to lay out a territorial road from Aztalan, in Jefferson county, by Nashua, in Dodge county, to intersect the road leading from Ten Mile Creek to Fox Lake, at or near the place where said road crosses Shaw's Brook.

SEC. 26. That Major Platt, Richard F. Rising and Jeremiah Drake, are hereby appointed commissioners to lay out a Territoritorial road from Columbus, in Portage county, to Washara, in Dodge county, thence on the most practicable route, to strike the Watertown and Fox Lake road at or near Major Pratt's.

SEC. 27. That part of a Territorial road leading from Aztalan, in Jefferson county, by Peck's Rapids Settlement, and Isaac Noyes', to Wilcoxe's, in Fond du Lac county, authorized by the Legislative Assembly, at its session in 1842, 3, which lies between Aztalan and Noyes', is hereby established according to the survey made by Victor M. Adams, under Isaac Noyes and Benja. min Cluson, as commissioners.

SEC. 28. That Isaac Noyes, Seymour Wilcox and Barnabas Hinkley are hereby appointed commissioners to lay out and estab lish a Territorial road from Isaac Noyes', in Dodge county, to Seymour Wilcox's, in Fond du Lac.

SEC. 29. That so much of a Territorial road which was laid out and established from Prairieville, in Milwaukee county, to Fort Atkinson, in Jefferson county, in pursuance of the ninth section of an act entitled "An act to provide for laying out the several Territorial roads therein named," approved January 15, 1842 as lies between a point in said road at the angle stake on the south west quarter of section nine, in Prairieville, aforesaid, and the termination of said road on the south east quarter of section three, near the academy in said Prairieville, be and the same is hereby discontinued.

SEC. 30. That Robert R. Cowan, E. M. Williamson and Richard Palmer, are hereby appointed commissioners to lay out and establish a Territorial road, commencing at Janesville in the county of Rock, and running thence on the east side of Rock riv er to the old Indian ford, (so called) across the Rock river in the town of Fulton, thence on the nearest and most practicable route to the Catfish Mills on the Catfish river, thence by the nearest and most practicable route to Madison, in the county of Dane.

SEC, 31. That Jacob P. Brown, C. D. Finch and Thomas M. McCaughey, be and are hereby appointed commissioners to view and make such alterations in the Territorial road leading from Madison, in Dane county, by the way of Columbus and Beaver Dam to Waupun, in the county of Fond du Lac, as they may deem necessary and proper.

SEC. 32. That Benjamin Funk, George Wiley and Joseph Payne, be, and they are hereby appointed commissioners to lay out and establish a Territorial road, commencing in the county of Iowa, at the north east corner of section thirty-five, in township number one, of range three east, rnnning thence east to the east

bank of Spafford's branch, thence eastwardly by the bridge on the Pecatonica river a short distance below the forks, thence on the nearest and best route to Monroe, in the county of Green.

SEC. 33. That Henry H, Camp, Orrin Hazeltine and Luther Parker, be, and are hereby appointed commissioners to lay out and establish a Territorial road, commencing on section sev enteen, in the town of Vernon, Milwaukee county, on the Milwau. kee and Mukwanego road, thence running in an easterly direction and ending on section seventeen in the town of Muskego, on the Milwaukee and Mukwanego road.

SEC. 34. That Thomas L. Summers, A. K. Stearns and Jacob Linzie, are hereby appointed commissioners to lay out, and establish a Territorial road from Janesville, via Exeter to Mineral Point.

SEC. 35. That P. M. Johnson. John Sacket and Timothy Hale, are hereby appointed commissioners to lay out and estab. lish a Territorial road from the county seat of Washington county to Hustis Rapids on Rock river.

SEC. 33. That William Sherman, Adam E. Ray and Philip V Bovee, are hereby appointed commissioners to lay out a Territori. al road, commencing at such point in the town of Eagle, in the county of Milwaukee, as they shall deem the interests of the public require, and running thence the nearest and best route by the way of Spring Lake to Prairieville in said county.

SEC. 37. Said roads shall be laid out and returns made agreeable to the provisions of "an act to provide for laying out and opening Territorial roads, and for other purposes," passed January 11th, 1840: and when so laid out shall be public highways agreeable to the terms of said act, and each of the aforesad boards of commissioners, are hereby authorized to adopt as part of the roads hereby authorized, any part of such public roads heretofore laid out as shall be suitable and proper.

SEC. 38. Whenever damages could be legally claimed by any person through whose land a Territorial road may be laid, or proposed to be laid,if said road had been a town or county road.the commissioners shall proceed to ascertain the damages in the same man. ner that the town or county authorities would have ascertained the same if said road was a town or county road, and all duties required of the town or county clerk in such cases, in the case of laying a Territorial road may be performed by one of the commissioners;

Provided, that all damages on such cases and the costs of ascer. taining the same shall be paid by the commissioners, or by the persons interested in the road.

APPROVED, February 22, 1845.

AN ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Milwauke county to collect certain delinquent taxes in the towns of Summit and Oconomowoc for the year A. D. 1842.

Be it enacted by the Council and House of Representatives of the Territory of Wisconsin:

SECTION 1. That the board of supervisors of the county of Milwaukee, at their next annual meeting, are hereby authorised to add to the tax apportioned to the towns of Summitt and Oconomewoc, the delinquent tax apportioned to the town of Summit for the year A. D. 1842; and that the assessment of A. D. 1842, be taken as the basis of said apportionment.

SEC. 2. That this act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

APPROVED, January 30, 1845.

AN ACT to amend an act entitled "An act in relation to the qualification of voters for State Government and for the election of Delegates to form a State Constitution.

Be it enacted by the Council and House of Representatives of the Territory of Wisconsin:

SECTION 1. That an act entitled "An act in relation to the qualification of voters for state government, and for the election of delegates to form a state constitution," approved January 22, 1844, be so amended as to read as follows: That no person shall Qualification hereafter vote upon the subject of state government, or for dele- of voters. gates to form a state constitution, who shall not have resided six

months within the Territory, and as an additional qualification shall be a citizen of the United States, or shall have declared his intentions to become such; as the law requires.

APPROVED, February 8th, 1845.

St. Croix Co. how divided,

ed.

AN ACT to divide the County of St. Croix and organize the County of La Pointe.

Be it enacted by the Council and House of Representatives of the Territory of Wisconsin:

SECTION 1. That all that district of country within the limits of St. Croix county,as prescribed by an act organizing said county, approved January 9th,1840,be and the same is hereby divided into two counties; beginning at the mouth of Muddy Island river, thence running in a direct line to Yellow Lake, and from thence to Lake Courterille, so to intersect the eastern boundary line at that place, of the county, of St Croix, thence to the nearest point on the west fork of Montreal river, thence down said river to Lake Superior. All that portion of the St. Croix county as heretofore bounded, lying south of said lines, be and remain the county of St. Croix, and all the country lying north of said line, and within this Territory, shall be known as the county of La Pointe.

County of La- SEC. 2. The county of La Pointe aforesaid, shall be organPoint organiz-ized for all purposes of county government, and shall enjoy all the rights, privileges and powers of other counties within this Ter. ritory,and may elect their county officers at the next,or any future general election. And at the first election so held, the judges of election shall issue certificates of election, as the clerks of the board of commissioners are authorized to do in other counties; and either of said judges of election is hereby authorized to administer the oath of office to any person duly elected.

Attached to Crawford Co. for judicial purposes,

SEC. 3. The county of La Pointe shall remain attached to the county of Crawford for judicial purposes; and the treasurer of the county of La Pointe shall pay to the treasurer of the county of Crawford one eighth of all the taxes collected in said county for the purpose of defraying her portion of the expenses of holding the district courts of Crawford county, as long as the same shall remain attached for judicial purposes, to the county of Crawford.