by appointed commissioners to lay out and improve a territo- Commissioners appointe rial road from Sheboygan to Fond du Lac; and that, for that purpose they or a majority of them may meet at such time and place as either two of thein may appoint, notice thereof being given by publication in the Fond du Lac Journal, and Sheboygan Mercury, ten days previous thereto, and proceed to view and determine the same. 1 SEC. 2. For the purpose of improving said road, it shall Duty of clerks be the duty of the town clerks of the towns of Fond du Lac to levy tax. Taychedah, and Forest, and of the clerks of the commission" ers, (or other proper officer or officers) of Sheboygan county, at the time of calculating and carrying out the general tax for 1848, to levy and carry out in a separate form, upon all taxable property in towns fifteen, north of ranges number seventeen, eighteen, nineteen and twenty, in Fond du Lac county, and of ranges twenty one, twenty-two, and twentythree in Sheboygan county, each causing the same to be done in his own proper town or county, a special tax for highway purposes, of two and a half mills on each dollar's valuation, to be laid on all property which is or shall be made liable to taxation by law. SEC. 3. The tax so levied shall be collected in the same Tax how colmanner as other takes are by law collected and paid into the lected and extown or county treasury, to be expended for the purposes and in the manner herein provided, and for no other. pend ed. Tax hereby authorized upon all proj SEC. 4. The amount of tax hereby authorized shall be payable in money, or by orders drawn by the commissioners shall be a lien named in the first section of this act; and the amounts of erty. taxes hereby authorized and thus levied, shall be a lien un'il paid upon all property, the same as county or town taxes, and shall be collected and returned and paid into the treas ury at the same time and in the same manner in all respects as other taxes, and the several Treasurers shall receive any such commissioners orders in payment from the collectors. For the purpose of superintending and conductCommission. ing the improvement of said road as aforesaid, the commis- ers may ap sioners or a majority of them may appoint one or more agents point agents of their own board or otherwise to oversee and conduct the Proviso. Board shall determine mauner of drawing or ders Compensa ion of Treas. urer. same, and said commissioners or their agents may enter into any contracts necessary for carrying on said improvement, in such manner as they may deem for the best interests of the same: Provided, that no agent shall be thus appointed except at a meeting of the whole board, or at a meeting the time and place of which the whole board shall have been notified either by formal notice or by publication in papers as before provided. SEC. 6. Said board shall determine in what manner or ders shall be drawn upon the several Treasurers, and having so determined, shall notify the several Treasurers aforesaid of the same, and having been so notified, the several Treas urers receiving any portion of said money or of such orders, shall pay out the same on demand, and in default of payment shall be subject to all the liabilities and penalties imposed by law in relation to other moneys received for taxes. SEC. 7. The Treasurer is hereby authorized to retain of the same per cent., for receiving and disbursing as now allowed by law in relation to other taxes. SEC. 3. In laying out said road it shall be lawful for said commissioners to adopt the survey of any other road, and make it a part of the road hereby authorized. TIMOTHY BURNS, Speaker of the House of Representatives. HORATIO N. WELLS, APPROVED, March 11, 1848. President of the Council. HENRY DODGE. AN ACT To submit to the legal voters of the county of Be it enacted by the Council and House of Representatives f the Territory of Wisconsin: held. SECTION 1. That the legal voters of the county of Grant, Election to be at the election to be holden on the second Monday of May next, may vote for or against the division of said county, and the votes on said question shall be canvassed in the same manner as the votes for county officers are canvassed. SEC. 2. Three propositions shall be submitted to said vo- Propositions ters at said election, as follows: 1st. To divide the county by an east and west line. 2d. To divide the county by a north and south line. 3d. For and against any division. submitted. who Legal voters coun. to ballot "lor an east and ballot west division words SEC. 3. The legal voters of said county of Grant are in favor of an east and west division of said ty shall, at the election aforesaid, deposite in the box a ballot on which shall be written or printed the "For an east and west division ;" and if a majority of all the votes cast at the said election on the subject of the division of said county shall be for an east and west division. then the legislature of the Territory or State of Wisconsin, at its next session, may divide said county by an east and west line running from the east line of said county along the line dividing towns numbered four and five, west, to the western line of said county; and the said legislature may, at the next session aforesaid, erect, and establish and organize into a new county all the territory now lying or being within the present limits of the county of Grant, to ballot "for north of the above described east and west line, and organize the same for judicial purposes, and thereafter that it may enjoy all the privileges of other counties of the territory or state of Wisconsin, and may also provide for the location of the county seat of said new county. Legal voters SEC. 4. The legal voters of said county of Grant whe a north and are in favor of a north and south division of said county, south division" shall, at the election aforesaid, deposite in the ballot box a Legal voters ballot on which shall be written or printed the words "For a north and south division," and if the number of votes cast for a north and south division shall be a majority of all the votes cast at said election on the subject of division then the said legislature of the territory or state of Wisconsin, at its next session thereafter, may divide said county by a north and south line, commencing at the mouth of Platte river on the Mississippi river; thence up the said Platte river to where the line between ranges two and three west of the fourth principal meridian crosses said Platte river; thence north on the line between ranges two and three west of the fourth principal meridian, to the Wisconsin river; and the said legislature, at the next session aforesaid, may erect, establish, and organize into a new county all the territory now lying or being within the present limits of the county of Grant, east of the above north and south line, and organize the same for judicial purposes, and thereafter that it may enjoy all the priv ileges of the other counties of the territory or state of Wis consin, and may also provide for the location of the county seat of said new county. SEC. 5. The legal voters of said county who are against "no division." any division of said county shall, at the election aforesaid, deposite in the ballot box a ballot, on which shall be written or printed the words "No division ;" and it shall be the duty of the clerk of the board of county commissioners to certify to the governor of the territory or state of Wisconsin, a true and correct abstract of the votos cast and canvassed under the provisions of this act, within ten days after the same shall be canvassed, and the governor shall communicate the same to the said legislature at the session aforesaid. Be it enacted by the Council and House of Representatives of the Territory of Wisconsin: SECTION 1. That the marriage contract between John W. Evans and Sarah Jane Evans his wife, be, and the same is hereby dissolved, and the parties to the said contract are by virtue of this act restored to all the rights and privileges of unmarried persons. TIMOTHY BURNS, Speaker of the House of Representatives. President of the Council. APPROVED, March 11, 1848. HENRY DODGE |