(Document C.)

RECIEVER'S REPORT.

To the Honorable the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Wisconsin:

In obedience to the requirements of an act of the Legislative Assembly of said Territory, entitled an act to provide for carrying into effect an act of Congress entitled 'an act granting a section of land for the improvement of Grant river at the town of Potosi, in Wisconsin Territory,' approved June 15th, 1844," requiring the Receiver of the funds arising from the sales of lots upon said section, to report annually to the Legislative Assembly, and state his accounts, showing his receipts and expenditures, and the amount of money on hand, I submit the following

REPORT:

The amount of receipts of money on sales of

lots as surveyed and laid out by the commissioners appointed by said act of the Legislative Assembly, being the entire amount of proceeds from the sale of the whole of said section, is the sum of four thousand one hundred and thirty dollars and sixty-four cents,

$4,130 64

The account of the expenditures under said act of the Legislative Assembly, are as follows:

1845, October 25-For this amount paid John
Wharton, one of the Commissioners appointed
by the Surveyor General of Wisconsin and Iowa.
to assess the value of pre-empted lots on said
section, sixteen dollars and fifty cents,
For the same amount paid Augustus L. Gregoire.
one of said Commissioners, for the same ser-
vice,

For paying same amount and for same service, to
Henry A. Wiltse, of said Commissioners,

$16 50

16/50

16|50

For this amount paid to Henry A. Wiltse, for for- ||
ty days' services as surveyor in surveying
the said section into out and in-lots, at $5 per
day,
For this amount paid to Henry A. Wiltse for plat-
ting and constructing the original maps, of the
survey of lots on said section, computing the
contents of each lot and entering the same
upon the maps, one hundred and twenty-five
dollars,

For this amount paid to Henry A. Wiltse for ma-
king three copies of the same maps, at seventy-
five dollars each,

For this amount paid Henry A. Wiltse for paper for said maps, cloth for and binding saidi maps and for field books, &c., twenty-eight|| dollars,

For this amount paid Henry A. Wiltse for procu-
ring from the office of Surveyor General's office
the township plat of township 2, N. R. 3 W. and!!
the field notes thereof for the use of the Engi-
neer in making an estimate of the improve-
ments contemplated by said act of Congress,
three dollars,

For this amount paid James E. Freeman, one of
the Territorial Commissioners appointed by the
act of the Legislative Assembly aforesaid, for
fifty-three days services as Commissioner,
For this amount paid J. D. Spaulding, publisher of
Wisconsin Herald, for publishing four weeks'
notice for the adjusting claims to pre-emption to
lots on said section,

For this amount paid J. L. Marsh, editor and pub-
lisher of the Independent American, for publish-
ing same notice same time,

For this amount paid J. D. Spaulding for printing
900 blank certificates of pre-emption,
For this amount paid J. D. Spaulding for printing
1000 blank Receiver's receipts,

Do do same for publishing notice of sale of

lots,

For this amount paid Nelson Dewey, for 48 days' services as Commissioner,

For this amount paid Nelson Dewey for 24 days' services as Commissioner in making full records of the proceedings of commissioners, and making list of pre-empted lots, for the office of the Surveyor General, and making and filing certifi

200 00

125 00

225 00

28,00

3,00

79 50

5:00

500

14 00

16/00

680

7200

cates of pre-emption to lots and duplicates thereof,

For this amount paid N. Dewey for three days' services as Commissioner in making public sale of!! lots,

For this amount paid Nelson Dewey for sixteen days' services as Commissioner in attending upon the entry and sale of lots on said section,

For the amount paid Nelson Dewey for six days
services in making abstract of lots sold, for the
Executive office of the Territory,

For this amount paid N. Dewey for two days' ser-
vices as Commissioner in employing Civil En-
gineer to make the estimates of improvements
contemplated by the act of Congress,
For this amount paid N. Dewey for six days' servi-
ces as Commissioner in going to Dubuque on
business with Joshua Barney, the Civil Engi-
neer employed by the Commissioners to make
estimates of improvements,

For this amount paid to Joshua Barney for his ser-
vices in examining and making estimates of the||
improvements contemplated by the act of Con-
gress and making report to the Commissioners
and drawing maps of the survey,

For this amount paid to Hiram Weld for making soundings of Grant River Slough and in the Mississippi river,

For the amount of James F. Chapman's bill for ferriage in making survey of the harbor and of Grant river,

36 00

450

24 00

9.00

3,00

900

142 29

700

300

For this amount paid Morris Lear's bill for five days' services in assisting to survey the contemplated improvements,

500

For amount paid J. Toulouse's bill for two days in same service,

200

Do do B. Locey's bill for do.,

2100

50

25

Do do S. Webster's do, for half day do.,
Do do B. Wright's do. for qr

do. do.,

Do do S. C. Wiltse's bill for eleven days as Civil Engineer in survey of improvements contemplated by act of Congress and by act of Legislative Assembly,

For amount paid S. M. & E. Langworthy's bill for rent of office for use of commissioners, $10; stationery for do. 50 cts.,

For amount paid H. L. Massey for twenty days'|

54 00

10/50

Do do

Do do

Do do

services as Commissioner in superintending sur-
vey of contemplated improvements, and attend-
ing upon the sale and entry of lots,
For amount paid S. M. & E, Langworthy for cloth
for flags for surveyor,

Do do same for stationery for commissioners,
Do do paid J, Parsons for stone for monuments,
paid Mr. Gushee for four days' services
in making survey of section,
paid Jos. Rochambeau for seven days do.
paid Geo. W. H. Bell for 161

30 00

137

166

3150

4/00

875

do.

16 50

Do do

paid N. Locey for 27 days

Do do

paid do hauling stone for monuments.

75

Do do

paid M. Lear for seven days' services in
the survey of said section,

7100

Total amount of expenditures up to date, $1,350 40
All of which have been paid upon drafts drawn
by the Territorial Commissioners upon me as
Receiver, which drafts specified the amount to
be paid and the purposes of the expenditures.
Total amount from sale of whole section,
Deduct therefrom expenditures to date,

800

$1,350 40

$4,130 64 1,350 40

2,780124

Deduct my per cent. as allowed by law on receipts, $41 31, and per cent. on expenditures, 13 50,

Balance remaining in my hands, two thousand seven hundred and twenty-five dollars and fortythree cents,

5481

$2,725 43

J. ALLEN BARBER, Receiver. Lancaster, Grant County, W. T. Dec. 30, 1845.