Commissioners to meet. SECTION 2. And be it further enacted, That the commissioners aforesaid, or any three of them, shall meet at the town of Dubuque, on the first Monday of May next, for the purpose of proceeding to the discharge of their duties as commissioners as aforesaid; and that they be and they are hereby authorized to adjourn from time to time, and from place to place, as a majority of them may agree and determine; and that in case Powers, duties the said commissioners, from any cause, shall fail to &c. of commissioners. Surveyor's duty. Plats and notes of survey, ed. meet at the time and place aforesaid, or any other time and place to which the said commissioners may have adjourned, that then the sheriff of the county of Dubuque be authorized, and he is hereby required, on application of any one of the said commissioners, either verbal or written, to notify in writing the said. commissioners of some other day to be by him appointed, and request their attendance on such day at the place aforesaid. SECTION 3. And be it further enacted, That the said commissioners, or a majority of them, be and they are hereby required to employ one or more competent surveyors, and such numbers of chain carriers and other hands as to them may seem necessary in the location of said road; that the said commissioners mark, or cause the said road by them located to be marked, by stakes in the prairie at a reasonable distance apart, and by blazing trees in the timber; that at the end of each mile the said commissioners cause a large and prominent stake to be set, marking thereon the number of miles from the point herein before named, from which they shall have last departed. SECTION 4. And be it further enacted, That the surwhere deposit. Veyor or surveyors employed as aforesaid, be authorized, and he or they are hereby required to make out, a true and correct plat and field notes by him or them kept in locating said road, within one month from the completion of the survey thereof; and that he or they make out and file one copy thereof in the office of the clerk of each county through which the contemplated road shall pass, and the clerks of said counties in whose office said plats and field notes shall be filed, shall record and preserve the same; and that said road, when so laid out and established, be forever the highway. SECTION 5. And be it further enacted, That the said to commission commissioners be allowed the sum of three dollars per Compensation day each, and the surveyors and other hands such ers and other sums as the said commissioners shall contract for, not persons. exceeding the sum of five dollars per day each to the surveyor or surveyors, and not exceeding the sum of one dollar and fifty cents each per day to the laborers; that the said commissioners do, after the completion of the survey of said road, make out, under oath, a true and correct account of their own, as well as of the services of the surveyor or surveyors and hands, charging each county through which the said road may be lo- How paid. cated their proportion, agreeably to the number of days actually engaged therein; and that the board of supervisors of the several counties against whom the said accounts shall be made, shall audit and settle the same. SECTION 6. And be it further enacted, That said roads Repair of road. shall be opened and kept in repair as county roads are, and that no part of the expenses incurred or damages sustained by any person or persons in laying out said road, shall be paid out of the territorial treasury. missioners. SECTION 7. And be it further enacted, That the said Oath of comcommissioners aforesaid, before they enter upon their duties as commissioners under this act, shall take an oath before some judge or justice of the peace, well and truly, and to the best of their abilities, to perform the duties required of them by this act. missioners. SECTION 8. And be it further enacted, That the Reports of comsaid commissioners, within three months from the completion of the survey of said road, shall make out a report of the manner in which they have discharged their duties, including in said report an estimate of the probable cost of constructing the necessary bridges, with any other remarks by them deemed pertinent; and that the said commissioners file one copy of said report in the office of the clerk of the district court for the counties through which the said road may pass, to be by said clerk recorded and preserved. P. H. ENGLE, Speaker of the house of representatives. President of the council. Approved Dec. 7, 1836. Des Moines county divided. Lee county. Van Buren county. Des Moines county. No. 21. AN ACT dividing the county of Des Moines into several new counties. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the council and house of representatives of the territory of Wisconsin, That the country included within the following limits, to wit: beginning at the most southern outlet of Skunk river, on the Mississippi; thence a northern direction passing through the grove on the head of the northern branch of Lost Creek, and thence to a point corresponding with the range line dividing range seven and eight, and thence south with said line to the Des Moines river; thence down the middle of the same to the Mississippi, and thence up the Mississippi to the place of be ginning, be and the same is hereby set off into a sepa rate county, by the name of Lee. SECTION 2. Be it further enacted, That the country included within the following boundaries, to wit: beginning at the north-west corner of Lee; thence south with the west line of said county to the river Des Moines; thence up the same to where the Missouri line strikes the same; thence west with the said Missouri line to the Indian boundary line; thence north with the said boundary line twenty-four miles; thence east to the beginning; be and the same is hereby set off into a separate county, by the name of Van Buren. SECTION 3. Be it further enacted, That the country included within the following limits, to wit: beginning on the Mississippi river, at the north-east corner of Lee; thence up said river to a point fifteen miles above the town of Burlington, on the bank of said river: thence on a westerly direction to a point on the dividing ridge between the Iowa river and Flint creek, being twenty miles on a due west line from the Mississippi river; thence a southerly direction, so as to intersect the northern boundary line of the county of Lee, at a point twenty miles on a straight line from the Mississippi river; thence east with the northerly line of the said county of Lee to the beginning, be and the same is hereby set off into a separate county, by the name Des Moines. SECTION 4. Be it further enacted, That the country included within the following limits, to wit: begin- Henry county. ning at the south-west corner of Des Moines; thence north-west with the line of the said county of Van Buren to the Indian boundary line; thence north with the said boundary line twenty-four miles; thence southeast to the north-west corner of the county of Des Moines; thence south with the west line of the county of Des Moines to the beginning, be and the same is hereby set off into a separate county, by the name of Henry. SECTION 5. Be it further enacted, That the country Louisa county. included within the following limits: beginning at the Mississippi river, at the north-east corner of Des Moines; thence up said river twelve miles above the mouth of Iowa; thence west to the Indian boundary line; thence with said boundary line, to the north-west corner of Henry and with the line of the same, to the north-west corner of the county of Des Moines; thence east with the line of the same county of Des Moines to the beginning, be and the same is hereby set off into a separate county, by the name of Louisa. SECTION 6. Be it further enacted, That the country Muscatine included within the following boundaries, to wit: be- county. ginning on the Mississippi river, at the north-east corner of the county of Louisa; thence up said river twenty-five miles on a straight line; thence west to the Indian boundary line; thence with said boundary line south to the north-west corner of the county of Louisa; thence east with the line of said county of Louisa to the beginning, be and the same is hereby set off into a separate county, by the name of Musquitine. SECTION 7. Be it further enacted, That the country Cook county. included within the following boundaries, to wit: beginning on the Mississippi river, at the north-east corner of the county of Musquitine; thence up said river to the south-east corner of the county of Du Buque; thence with the line of the said county of Du Buque to the Indian boundary line; thence with said line south, to the north west corner of the county of Musquitine; thence east with the said line of the said county of Musquitine to the beginning, be and the same is hereby set off into a separate county, by the name of Cook. SECTION 8. Be it further enacted, That the district · Terms of district courts when and where. County of Cook attached to Muscatine. Des Moines court shall be held at the town of Madison, in the county of Lee, on the last Monday in March and on the last Monday in August in each year; in the town of Farmington, in the county of Van Buren, on the second Monday in April and the second Monday in September in each year; in the town of Mountpleasant, in the county of Henry, on the first Friday after the second Monday in April and September in each year; in the town of Wapello, in the county of Louisa, on the first Thursday after the third Monday in April and September in each year; in the town of Bloomington, in the county of Musquitine, on the fourth Monday in April and September in each year. SECTION 9. Be it further enacted, That the county of Cook be and the same is hereby attached to the county of Musquitine, for all judicial purposes. SECTION 10. And be it further enacted, That the proper debts, how paid. authority of the several counties hereby established,so soon as the said counties shall become organized, shall liquidate and pay so much of the debt now due and unpaid by the present county of Des Moines, as may be their legal and equitable proportion of the same, according to the assessment value of the taxable property which shall be made therein. SECTION 11. This act to be in force from and after its passage, and until the end of the next annual session of the legislative assembly, and no longer. P. H. ENGLE, Speaker of the house of representatives. HENRY S. BAIRD, Approved Dec. 7, 1836. President of the council. H. DODGE. Seat of justice No. 22. AN ACT to change the seat of justice h Brown county. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the council and house of of Brown coun- representatives of the territory of Wisconsin, That the seat of justice in the county of Brown, shall, from and after the 1st day of April, 1837, be established either ty, where and how located. |