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county, conditioned to provide a suitable room for hold- Room to hold ing courts for the use of said county for the term of three Courts. years, the whole to be free of charge to the county, and to be entered of record in the register's office of said. county. But it is herein further provided, that unless such deed and bond, duly executed, shall be thus recorded on or before the first Monday of March next, tle county seat shall be and remain as now established by law; and the supervisors of said county shall be hereby authorized to provide a building for the temporary holding of such courts until county buildings shall be prepared at Building to be the county seat; and such building, thus provided, (a cer- provided. tificate of such fact being recorded in the office of the clerk of the board of supervisors of said county) shall

be deemed to be the court-house of said county.

§ 7. All appeals to be taken in the manner provided Appeals when by law, from the decisions of the probate court of the and how taken district composed of the counties of Sheboygan and Manitouwoc shall be made and returned to the district court of Brown county any law to the contrary notwithstanding.

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§ 8. From and after the first Monday of March next, the county of Marquette shall be organized for county Marquette or. purposes, and the first election for county officers in said gan zed for county shall be held on the first Tuesday of April next, at the house of S. W. Beall, the place appointed by law for holding the annual town meeting and the returns of the election of such county officers shall be made to the town clerk of the town of Marquette, who is hereby authorized to canvass the same and to issue certificates of election.

§ 9. Such election shall be conducted in all respects Elections in as the law requires for conducting town meetings and it how held. shall be the duty of the clerk of the board of supervisors

of Fond du Lac county to post up notices of such election and also of the town meeting of the town of Marquette at two or more places in such county ten days at least before the day of such meeting.

§ 10. The several towns in the counties of Calumet and Marquette, and the county of Sheboygan, shall an

nually pay to the treasurer of Fond du Lac county eight Per cent. to be per centum of all taxes, except school house taxes, levied paid for cx. therein, to assist in defraying the expenses of courts. And, Courts. it is hereby made the duty of the collectors of the several

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towns in the counties aforesaid, and of the collector of the county of Sheboygan, to collect and pay such per centage to the treasurer of the county of Fond du Lac, on or before the first Monday of Jauuary, in each year; and the receipt of such treasurer shall be a good and sufficient voucher for such amount in settlement with the treasurer of his own proper town or county; and the collectors of such towns and counties shall be liable to the county of Fond du Lac, under their official bonds, for the payment, as aforesaid, for the per centage herein mentioned.

§ 11. From and after the first Monday of March next, all assessments that shall be made in the county of Fond du Lac for the purpose of raising taxes, shall embrace improvements on real estate, in addition to the property now liable by law to taxation.

12. The clerks of the boards of county supervisors. of the counties of Calumet and Marquette, and the clerk of the board of commissioners of Sheboygan county, shall be required to forward to the clerk of the board of supervisors of Fond du Lac county, on or before the first Monday of April next, a certified copy of the poll lists of the last annual election; and the board of supervisors of the county of Fond du Lac, is hereby required to meet at the clerk's office in said county on some day prior to the first day of May next, for the purpose of preparing a list of jurors, and taking any other measures necessary to carry out the provisions of this act.

§ 13. The clerks of the several towns in the counties of Fond du Lac, Calumet and Marquette, and the clerk of the board of commissioners of Sheboygan county, shall post up notices of the election of sheriff for such county at the proper places, at least ten days prior to the said day of election.

§ 14. All that portion of Lake Winnebago lying south of a direct line drawn from the point where the southern boundary of the Brothertown Reservation enters said lake on the east to the town line between towns sixteen and seventeen on the west side of said lake, is hereby made a part of the county of Fond du Lac.

§ 15. The legal voters of the county of Winnebago, shall on the day of the annual town meeting in April next, vote for or against the annexation of said county, to the county of Fond du Lac for judicial purposes, and if a majority of such votes shall be in favor of such annexation,

the clerk and moderator of such town meeting shall make return of such vote to the clerk of the board of supervisors of Fond du Lac county, within ten days after the day of such meeting, and the said clerk shall record such. returns in the said supervisors office, and when so recorded the said county of Winnebago shall be deemed to be attached to the county of Fond du Lac, and be subject to all such provisions of law as pertains to the other counties hereby attached to the county of Fond du Lac; any law to the contrary notwithstanding, and it is hereby provided, that if a majority of the legal voters of the counties of Majority of Sheboygan and Marquette, shall in like manner on the votes to decide first Tuesday of April next, vote against the annexation. of said counties to the county of Fond du Lac, then the provisions of this act so far as the said counties are concerned, shall be of no effect, and they shall remain as now attached to the county of Brown.

APPROVED, January 22, 1844.

AN ACT to organize the county of Dodge, and to provide for locating the seat of justice of the

same.

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

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§ 1. That from and after the first day of March next, When to take the county of Dodge be organized for judicial purposes, and shall enjoy all the privileges of other counties of this Territory. It shall form a part of the third judicial district, and the courts therein shall be held by the judge

of the said district.

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§ 2. All writs, process, appeals, recognizances, or other proceedings commenced in the district court of Process &c. Jefferson county, prior to the first day of March next, returnab e. shall be prosecuted to final judgment, and execution issued thereon, in the same manner they might or could have been had this act not passed; and execution on any judgment heretofore rendered in said court shall have the like force and effect, and may be executed and returned by the sheriff of Jefferson county; any thing in any law of this Territory to the contrary notwithstanding.

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Sheriff when § 3. At the special election in said county, hereinafter and how clec- provided for, the qualified electors of said county shall elect a sheriff, whose term of service shall commence on the first day of April next, and continue until the first day of January, A. D 1847.

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§ 4. That for the purpose of permanently establishing the seat of justice of the said county, a special election shall be held in the several precincts of the same, on the third Monday of March next; at which election every white male person of the age of twenty-one years, who is an actual resident of the said county at the passage of this act, shall be entitled to vote. The voters as aforesaid shall elect one commissioner in each of the several

seat of Justice, precincts of the county, who shall be a resident of the same, and shall be elected by the said precinct; and the voters as aforesaid of the county shall elect one commissioner, who shall be a resident of the county; making five in all, and they, or a greater part of them, shall form a board of commissioners for the purpose of establishing the seat of justice of said county.

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§ 5. The commissioners elected in pursuance of this ers when and act, shall meet at the house of Major Pratt, in said county, where to meet. on the second Monday of April next, and after having taken an oath or affirmation to fait fully and honestly discharge the duties conferred upon them, shall proceed to locate the seat of justice of said county at such place as they may deem most convenient for the present and future population of the said county, and th y shall make a full report of all their doings to the clerk of the board of county commissioners on or before the first Monday of July next.

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6. The said commissioners are authorized to purMay purchase chase of the United States, or of any individual, in the name of and for the use of the said county, any quantity of land not exceeding one quarter section, which land shall be the point selected by them for the seat of justice of said county; and they are authorized to borrow, for the purpose of purchasing the same, any sum of money not exceeding two hundred dollars, at a rate of interest not to exceed ten per cent; for the payment of which the county of Dodge shall be, and hereby is made liable.

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§ 7. So soon as the said commissioners shall have made the location of the seat of justice as aforesaid, it shall be their duty to make a report of the same to the

clerk of the board of county commissioners of said county, who shall record it, and certify the same to the Governor of this Territory, and he shall thereupon issue his proclamation declaring the place so selected to be the seat of justice of said county.

8. The said commissioners shall receive for their Compensation services, such reasonable compensation as may be allow- of commised them by the county commissioners of Dodge county.

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9. The county commissioners of the said county', May levy a are hereby authorized to levy a tax upon the taxable prop- tax. erty of the said county, of any sum not to exceed three hundred dollars, which tax shall be appropriated to the payment of the debt created for the purchase of the lands embracing the seat of justice, and the payment of the expenses of locating the same, and to no other purpose whatever: Provided, that no tax exceeding three hundred dollars, shall be levied or expended in said county of Dodge, for the erection of public buildings in said county, until the assessment roll of said county shall amount in the aggregate to the sum of three hundred thousand dollars.

§ 10. Until the seat of justice of said county is established and suitable buildings provided thereat, for the accommodation of the district court and the offices which by law are now required to be held at the seat of justice Buildings and shall be lawful for the county commissioners to provide, rooms for holding the sessions of the district court, at such place or places in said county as they may deem most convenient for its inhabitants; and the said officers may keep their offices at any place in the county.

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§ 11. The county commissioners shall file in the office Shall file with of the clerk of the district court of said county, at least clerk the lo sixty days before a session of the same, the place fixed cation. upon (by) them for holding the said court; and the place or places so selected shall be deemed, for all intents and purposes, the court-house of the said county for the time being.

APPROVED, January 20, 1844.

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