Newark to Vandervort are hereby appointed commissioners to lay out and Fond du Lac. establish a state road from Newark to Fond du Lac. Manchester SEC. 6. That Thomas Cormick, David Dick and William H. to Sheboygan Dick are hereby appointed commissioners to lay out and establish a state road from the church on the military road in the town of Manchester in Calumet, Calumet co., to the village of Sheboy In Dane co. Id. Declared lawful. Vacated. Madison to Wyocena to Portland to Bass Creek to Mc'Mel. lin's Barn. Winnebago Grafton to West Bend. Sec. 36 to gan. SEC. 7. That Adam Smith, Thomas Rathburn and Alfred Topliff are hereby appointed commissioners to lay out and establish a state road from the house of Adam Smith in Dane county, to the county line of Dodge and Columbia counties, on section twenty-four in town twelve of range twelve east. SEC. 8. Samuel Rood, John P. Emery and John S. Green are hereby appointed commissioners to lay out and establish a state road from the bridge across Catfish river near Stoughton's post office in Dane county, to the north quarter post of section 25 in the town of Pleasant Spring. SEC. 9. That the following described road, to wit: commencing at Fort Atkinson. Jefferson county, and running through the town of Gennesee to intersect the road leading from Waukesha to Waterville, is hereby declared to be a lawful highway, except so much thereof as passes through the town of Cold Spring in said county of Jefferson, which part of said road in said town of Cold Spring is hereby vacated. SEC. 10. Joshua Rhodes, Nathan Hazen and Herman Veeder are hereby appointed commissioners to lay out and establish a state road from Madison to Decora, in Columbia county. SEC. 11. A. A. Bull, Henry Ager and Alfred Topliff are here by appointed commissioners to lay out and establish a state road from Wyocena, Columbia county, through Otsego to Waterloo, Jefferson county. SEC. 12. Moses R. Stickney, Ebenezer Crosby and Dearborn Clark are hereby appointed commissioners to lay out and establish a state road from (at) the village of Portland to Lowell in Dodge county. SEC. 13. W. T. Goodhue, A. B. Vaughn and S. G. Barber are hereby appointed commissioners to lay out and establish a state road from Bass creek bridge through Cook's town [to] Mc'Mellin's barn. SEC. 14. James Blood, Julius S. Buck and John Stevens are hereby appointed commissioners to lay out and establish a state road from Winnebago Rapids, via Grande Chute, to Aldrich's Mill. SEC. 15. P. M. Johnson, Turner Bailey and George H. Irish are hereby appointed commissioners to lay out and establish a state road from the village of Grafton to the village of West Bend, in the county of Washington. SEC. 16. Charles Spear, E. W. Farrington and Jacob Rodgers are hereby appointed commissioners to lay out and establish a state road from the northeast corner of section 36, in town 12 of range ten east due south on the section line, to the Madison and Fox Lake roads. SEC. 17. E. E. Randall, Leander Leonard and Jeremiah Gates Dekoria to Madison. are hereby appointed commissioners to lay out and establish a state road from Dekoria road on section 2, of town 12, of range 12, running a southwesterly course to the old Fox Lake and Madison road on section 17 in town eleven of range thence on said road to Madison. SEC. 18. Solomon Soule, David Van Alstine and James W. Fort WinneBabb are hereby appointed commissioners to lay out and establish bago to Misa state road from Fort Winnebago and Babb's Prairie, to some sissippi. point on the Mississippi river. SEC. 19. Wm. H. Bradbury, John B. Winchell and Amos Minard's Mill Harris are hereby appointed commissioners to lay out and estab- to P. Portage lish a state road from Minard's mill in Marquette county, to Plover Portage in Portage county. SEC. 20. A. B. Foster, F. F. Hamilton and S. M. Parsons Berlin to are hereby appointed commissioners to lay out and establish a W. Rapids. state road from Berlin in Marquette county, to Winnebago Rapids in Winnebago county. SEC. 21. John Thompson, Wm. Flannagan and E. S. Com- Merton to stock are hereby appointed commissioners to lay out and establish Milwaukee. a state road from the village of Merton to Milwaukee. SEC. 22. Uriah Utley, Ansel Shaler and William Ewen, Jr. Waupun to Ft Winnebago. are hereby appointed commissioners to lay out and establish a state road from Waupun in the counties of Dodge and Fond du Lac, following as near as practicable the line dividing the counties of Dodge and Fond du Lac and the counties of Columbia and Marquette to Fort Winnebago. Fountain SEC. 23. A. P. Foster, Douglass D. Jennings and Absolom Springvale to Brown are hereby appointed commissioners to lay out and estab- Prairie. lish a state road from a point forty rods east of the centre of section thirty-four (34) in town 12 of range 11, in the town of Springvale, to the centre of the public highway in front of the store of A. A. Brayton, in the town of Fountain Prairie. Green Bay. SEC. 24. James D. Doty, Asa Ketchum and George P. Wright Madison to are hereby appointed commissioners to lay out and establish a state road from Madison, via Fox Lake, Oshkosh and Winnebago Rapids to Green Bay. SEC. 25. George W. Lawe, John C. Dean and Thomas H. Wolf river to Clark are hereby appointed commissioners to lay out and establish G. Kaukalin. a state road from some point on Wolf river, near the southwest corner of section 20 in town 22 of range 16, to the Grande Kau kalin. SEC. 26. John Shaw, Delas Maxon and Benjamin Rice are Hadley's hereby appointed commissioners to lay out and establish a state Rapids to Ft road from Hadley's Rapids by Shaw's Landing, thence up Fox Winnebago. river as near as practicable to intersect a state road from Green Bay to Fort Winnebago at or near the southwest corner of the land of D. Loomer. SEC. 27. Barton Salisbury, Ephraim Monger and Albert G. Depere to Ellis are hereby appointed commissioners to lay out and establish Newburg. a state road from Depere in Brown county, to Newburg in Wash ington county, on the nearest and most feasible route. Corner of La White Oak Dodge Centre SEC. 28. That a state road be and is hereby established along the southern boundary of the state, commencing at the southeast corner of La Fayette county and terminating at a point due south of the village of White Oak Springs in said county. SEC. 29. Madison Miller, Rufus Allen and Martin Rich are to Iron Ridge hereby appointed commissioners to lay out a road from Dodge Centre in Dodge county, to the Iron Ridge in said county. Compensa tion. SEC. 30. The commissioners appointed under the provisions of this [act], shall, upon the performance of the work, be entitled to such compensation for their services as the county supervisors of the counties where such services were performed, shall deem just and proper; to be paid out of the county treasury of the said counties respectively. HARRISON C. HOBART. Speaker of the assembly. JOHN E. HOLMES, Lt. Governor and President of the senate. Approved, March 31, 1849. NELSON DEWEY. Chap 196 An act to authorize the village of Sheboygan to aid in the construction of May levy tax. Proviso. On what property. How expend. ed. Tax payers entitled to stock. a road. THE People of the State of Wisconsin represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. The trustees of the village of Sheboygan shall have power to levy a special tax of ten thousand dollars, for the purpose of aiding in the construction of a plank or other road, leading from said village of Sheboygan to Fond du Lac in Fond du Lac county: Provided, That before such levy or collection shall be authorized, the trustees of said village shall be satisfied that stock to the amount of twenty thousand dollars has been paid in, or secured in accordance with an act to incorporate the Sheboygan and Fond du Lac Road Company, approved March 11, 1848. SEC. 2. The said tax shall be levied on all property subject to taxation in said village in the same manner as other taxes are levied and collected. SEC. 3. The trustees of the said village shall expend all moneys raised in pursuance of this act in the construction and improve. ment of said road, and the village of Sheboygan is hereby empowered to hold stock in the said company to the amount of moneys so levied and expended. SEC. 4. The tax payers in said village of Sheboygan, who shall, according to the provisions of this bill [act], be assessed, and who shall pay into the treasury the amount of tax so assessed, shall be entitled as stockholders in the stock so taken by said village, to an amount of stock in said road company equal to the amount so paid in by tax as aforesaid. SEC. 5. This act shall take effect and be in force after the same shall have been adopted by a vote of the electors of said village, of electors. and for this purpose, the said trustees shall have power to submit Act to be subthis act to said electors for their adoption or rejection, at any time mitted to vote after its passage, by giving twenty days notice of such special meeting, which notice shall be published in all the papers printed in said village; on all votes for the adoption of this act shall be written or printed the word "Yes," and on all votes against its adoption shall be written or printed the word "No," said votes shall be received, returned and canvassed in the same manner as provided in cases of election by the charter of said village. HARRISON C. HOBART, Speaker of the Assembly. JOHN E. HOLMES, Lt. Governor and President of the Senate. Approved, March 31, 1849. NELSON DEWEY. An act to authorize the electors of La Fayette county to vote on the removal of the county seat. THE People of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: Chap 197 SECTION 1. It shall and may be lawful for the legal voters of When to vote. the county of La Fayette to vote on the question of the removal of the county seat of said county, at the general election in No vember, one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine. SEC. 2. All votes cast on that question shall be by ballot, and How to vote. shall be in the form following, viz: "county seat, for removal to Shullsburg," or "against removal to Shullsburg;" said ballots shall be either written or printed, and so folded as to leave the words" county seat" visible. SEC. 3. Should a majority of all the votes cast upon that Result of vote question be for the removal of the county seat to Shullsburg, then &c. Shullsburg shall be the permanent county seat; but should there not be a majority for such removal, then the county seat shall continue to be permanently located at the centre of said county, on the land owned by said county, to wit: The south half of the northwest quarter and the north half of the southwest quarter of section number ten, in township number two north of range number three east. SEC. 4. In case a majority of the votes cast shall not be in Co. offices. favor of such removal, the courts and public offices shall be con tinued at Shullsburg, until the board of county supervisors shall otherwise provide, SEC. 5. Any person who shall offer, or who shall give to any Bribery, &c. elector any money or property, or who shall hold out to any elec- how punished tor any property inducement to vote for or against such removal, shall be liable to a fine of fifty dollars for every such offence; and any elector, who shall receive any such money or property, or who shall act upon such inducement, shall be liable to the same fine. HARRISON C. HOBART, Speaker of the Assembly. J. E. HOLMES, Lt. Governor and President of the Senate. Approved, March 31, 1849. NELSON DEWEY. Chap 198 Authorized to bridge. Rates of toll. Rates of toll An act to authorize the construction of a bridge across Nepasink lake. THE People of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Asahel W. Benham, his associates, heirs and assigns are hereby empowered to build, construct and maintain a bridge across Nepasink lake, in the town of Bristol, Racine county, at a point where the territorial road laid out under the provisions of an act entitled "an act to establish certain territorial roads therein named," approved March 11, 1848, crosses said lake. SEC. 2. The said Asahel W. Benham, his associates, heirs and assigns shall have power, for the term of ten years after the completion of said bridge, to demand and collect for the crossing of said bridge the following rates of toll, to wit: For any vehicle drawn by one horse, ox or mule, the sum of six and one quarter cents: for any vehicle drawn by two horses, oxen or mules, the sum of ten cents and for each additional horse, ox or mule, the sum of three cents for a single horse, ox or mule, the sum of five cents: for all animals in droves, the sum of three cents each: Provided, That hogs and sheep shall not be charged more than at the rate of one cent per head. SEC. 3. The said Asahel W. Benham, his associates, heirs and to be posted assigns shall keep posted up in some conspicuous place on said bridge, a list of the rates of toll allowed by this act. up. SEC. 4. The said bridge shall be commenced within one year and completed within three years. but SEC. 5. This act shall be in force from and after its passage, any future legislature may alter or amend this act. HARRISON C. HOBART, Speaker of the Assembly. J. E. HOLMES, Lt. Governor and President of the Senate. Approved, March 31, 1849. NELSON DEWEY. Chap 199 An act to authorize the board of supervisors of Sheboygan county to erect county buildings. THE People of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows : SECTION 1. The board of supervisors of Sheboygan county, |