SEC. 9. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its publication in the Kansas Daily Commonwealth. Approved March 1, 1872. I hereby certify that the foregoing is a true and correct copy of the original enrolled bill now on file in my office, and that the same was published in the Kansas Daily Commonwealth March 27, 1872. W. H. SMALLWOOD, Secretary of State. Open road. CHAPTER CLXXVI. VICKSBURG TOWNSHIP-JEWELL COUNTY- - SEC- AN ACT declaring section lines highways in the township of Vicksburg, Jewell county, Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Kansas: SECTION 1. That all section lines in the township of Vicksburg, Jewell county, Kansas, be and are hereby declared public highways. SEC. 2. The county commissioners of the said county, on application in writing of ten freeholders residing in the township of Vicksburg, setting forth that the public convenience requires the opening of such roads, shall give notice thereof to the road overseer, who shall proceed to open such roads at least one and one-half rods, and not more than two rods, on each side of said section line: Provided, That the provisions relative to damages in the general road law shall apply in all cases where damages are claimed under this act. SEC. 3. Where it shall not be practicable on any part of a section line to lay a road, and the application shall Damages state such fact, the overseer shall take three freeholders of the township, and shall lay the road as near to the section line as may be practicable, and if damages be claimed, shall assess the same and report in writing, and under oath, to the county commissioners. SEC. 4. This act shall take effect from and after its publication in the Kansas Weekly Commonwealth. Approved March 1, 1872. I hereby certify that the foregoing is a true and correct copy of the original enrolled bill now on file in my office, and that the same was published in the Kansas Weekly Commonwealth March 28, 1872. W. H. SMALLWOOD, 5876,/2.237 Counties. AN ACT to amend "an act declaring section lines in the several counties therein named public highways," approved February 26, 1867, approved March 3, 1868. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Kansas: und SECTION 1. That section one of an act declaring section lines in the several counties herein named public highways, approved February 26, 1867, March 3, 1868, be so amended as to read as follows, viz: Section 1. That all section lines in the counties of Atchison, Brown, Jefferson, Johnson, Neosho, Franklin, Washington, Marion, Chase, Osage and Coffey, State of Kansas, are hereby declared public highways, except section lines in Brown county, which have been vacated as public highways. SEC. 2. This act to take effect from and after its passage and publication in the Kansas Weekly Commonwealth. Approved March 1, 1872. I hereby certify that the foregoing is a true and correct copy of the original enrolled bill now on file in my office, and that the same was published in the Kansas Weekly Commonwealth March 21, 1872. W. H. SMALLWOOD, CHAPTER CLXXVIII. ROADS AND HIGHWAYS-SECTION LINES HIGH- AN ACT to be entitled an act declaring sectional lines highways, in the county of Rice Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Kansas: SECTION 1. That all sectional lines in the counties of Rice, Greenwood, Cowley, Chase, Howard, Morris and Counties. Reno are hereby declared public highways. SEC. 2. No section lines that are, at the date of the passage of this act, enclosed or under improvement, shall be opened until the same proceedings are had as are now required by law for the opening, changing or vacation of roads. opened. SEC. 3. All the unenclosed or unimproved highways, provided in section one of this act, shall be opened by Highways the board of county commissioners upon the presentation of a petition to said board, signed by not less than ten freeholders, residents of the county in which said highway is located: Provided, That the width of such roads Proviso. shall be sixty feet in the county of Rice, and four rods in the county of Reno. SEC. 4. And where said section lines, running parallel with any water course, shall be in the bed thereof, then Water course. such public highway shall be upon the bank of said water course; and where section lines run in sloughs, bluffs or other obstructions, the highways shall take the most practicable course around such sloughs, bluffs or other obstructions. SEC. 5. This act to take effect and be in force from and after its publication in the Kansas Weekly Commonwealth. Approved February 16, 1872. I hereby certify that the foregoing is a true and correct copy of the original enrolled bill now on file in my office, and that the same was published in the Kansas Weekly Commonwealth February 22, 1872. W. H. SMALLWOOD, Secretary of State. Names. Gates. CHAPTER CLXXIX. ROADS AND HIGHWAYS-CONSTRUCT GATES. AN ACT to authorize certain persons to construct gates on highways. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Kansas : SECTION 1. That Gilbert Glass, John G. Glass, Henry W. Glass, Charles E. Glass, H. C. Mathis, W. H. Mathis, P. Vanarsdale and Baley Pate, be and they are hereby authorized to construct and maintain at their own proper charge and expense, large and commodious self-adjusting gates at points where section lines or highways pass through their joint enclosures; said gates not to exceed six in number; two of said gates, when constructed and erected, shall be placed one on the east side and the other on the west side of said enclosure, where the section line dividing sections sixteen and twenty-one, and sections seventeen and twenty passes through said enclosure; that two of said gates, when constructed and erected, shall be placed one on the east side, and the other on the west side of said enclosure, where the section line dividing sections twenty-one and twenty-eight and sections twenty and twenty-nine passes through said enclosure. That two of said gates, when constructed and erected, shall be placed one at the north side and the |