and hereby are constituted a separate county, and be Seat of justice. called Fond du Lac; and the seat of justice of said county is hereby established at the town of Fond du Calumet county. Lac. SECTION 10. That towns seventeen, eighteen, nineteen and twenty, of ranges seventeen, eighteen, nineteen and twenty, be and they are hereby constituted a Seat of justice. separate county, and be called Calumet; and the seat of justice of said county is hereby established at the town of Whitesborough. Manitowoc county. SECTION 11. That townships numbered seventeen, eighteen, nineteen and twenty north, of ranges twentyone, twenty-two, twenty-three, twenty-four and twentyfive east of said meridian, shall be and are hereby constituted a separate county, and be called Manitowoc ; Seat of justice. and the seat of justice is hereby established at the town of Manitowoc Rapids. Marquette county. SECTION 12. That townships numbered fourteen and fifteen, of ranges nine and ten in townships fourteen, fifteen, and sixteen of range eleven, townships fourteen, fifteen, sixteen and seventeen of range twelve, and townships fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen and eighteen of ranges thirteen and fourteen east of the said meridian, shall be and are hereby constituted a separate county, and be called Marquette; and the eat of justice. seat of justice of said county is hereby established at the town of Marquette. Rock county. Counties, how attached for judicial purposes. SECTION 13. That the townships one, two, three and four north, of ranges eleven, twelve, thirteen and fourteen east of the said meridian, be and the same are hereby constituted a separate county and be called Rock. SECTION 14. That the counties of Manitowoc, Sheboygan, Fond du Lac, Portage, Marquette and Calumet, be attached to the county of Brown for judicial purposes, and that the counties of Washington, Dodge and Jefferson, be attached to the county of Milwaukee for judicial purposes, and the county of Dane be attached to the county of Iowa for judicial purposes. P. H. ENGLE, Speaker of the house of representatives. Approved, Dec. 7, 1836. HENRY S. BAIRD, President of the council. No. 29. AN ACT to prevent trespass on school lands. school lands, SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the council and house of Trespass on representatives of the territory of Wisconsin, That if any how punished. person or persons shall hereafter trespass upon the school lands, or on the sixteenth section, by cutting down, destroying, or hauliug from off the same, any timber or wood of any kind, mineral, stone, or stope coal, he or they so offending shall forfeit and pay, for every such offence, the sum of not less than twenty dollars, to be recovered before any justice of the peace within the county where such trespass may have been committed, upon complaint of any citizen or resident Fine, to whom of the county; and the fine so recovered shall be paid over to the treasurer of such county, and be appropriated to the use of schools within the township where such trespass was committed. paid. SECTION 2. This act to be in force from and after Exception and the first day of January next: provided, however, that proviso. this act shall not be so construed as to prohibit any person from using any of the timber on said school land for the purpose of cultivating such land. P. H. ENGLE, Speaker of the house of representatives. President of the council. Approved Dec. 9, 1836. H. DODGE. No. 30. AN ACT to locate and establish a territorial road from the town of Milwaukee to the Blue Mounds. Blue Mounds. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the council and house of Road from Milrepresentatives of the territory of Wisconsin, That Solo- wauakee to mon Juneau, Addison C. Nickell and John Messersmith, are hereby appointed and constituted a board Commissioners of commissioners, to locate and establish a territorial Meeting held, road from the town of Milwaukee, on Lake Michigan, via the town of Madison, to the Blue Mounds. SECTION 2. And be it further enacted, That the comwher & where. missioners aforesaid, or a majority of them, shall meet at Milwaukee on the second Monday in April next, for the purpose of proceeding to the discharge of their duties as commissioners aforesaid, 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. Appointment of officers and agents, &c. How laid off. When road finished. Plat of notes, how filed. Compensation to officers and SECTION 3. Be it further enacted, That the said commissioners, or a majority of them, be and they are hereby required to employ one competent surveyor, and such number of chain carriers, and other hands as to them may appear necessary for the location of said. road; that the said commissioners mark, or cause to be marked, the said road by them located, by stakes in the prairie, at a reasonabie distance apart, and by blazing trees in the timber: that at the end of each mile the said commissioners do cause a large and prominent stake to be set, marking thereon the number of miles from the point herein before named, from which they have last departed. SECTION 4. And be it further enacted, That the commissioners aforesaid, be and they are hereby required to commence and complete the survey and location of said road, as soon as inay be practicable after their first meeting. SECTION 5. And be it further enacted, That said surveyor, who may be employed as aforesaid, be authorized and he is hereby required to make out a true and correct plat and field notes, by him kept in locating said road, within one month from the completion of the survey thereof; and that he make out and file one copy thereof in the office of the clerk of the district court of each county, through which the contemplated road shall pass; and the clerks of said courts, in whose office said plats shall be filed, shall record the same; and said road, when laid out and established, shall be forever the highway. SECTION 6. And be it further enacted, That the said commissioners be allowed the sum of three dollars per and how paid. day each, and the surveyor and other hands such hands, what, sums as the said commissioners shall contract for, not exceeding the sum of five dollars per day, for the sur-. veyor, and not exceeding the sum of one and a half dollars 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 and hands, charging each county through which the said road may be located, their proportion of the expenses, agreeable to the number of days employed therein; and the board of supervisors (or commissioners as the case may be) of the several counties against whom said accounts may be made, shall audit and settle the same. missioners. SECTION 7. And be it further enacted, That the com- Oath of commissioners 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 without partiality, to discharge the duties assigned them by this act. report, how SECTION 8. And be it further enacted, That the com- Commissioners' missioners, within thirty days after the completion of made and filed. the survey of said road, shall make out a report of the manner in which they have discharged their duties, including in the said report an estimate of the probable cost of constructing the necessary bridges, and doing all the other necessary work, 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 road shall pass, to be by said clerk recorded and preserved. P. H. ENGLE, Speaker of the house of representatives. Approved, Dec. 8, 1836. President of the council. No. 31. AN ACT to divide the county of Iowa. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the council and house of Iowa county representatives of the territory of Wisconsin, That all that divided. part of the county of Iowa lying west of the fourth TER. LAWS-7. Green county. principal meredian, be and the same is hereby constituted a separate county, to be called Grant. SECTION 2. Townships one, two, three and four north, of ranges six, seven, eight and nine, east of the fourth principal meridian, shall be and the same are hereby constituted a separate county, to be called Seat of justice. Green, and the seat of justice is hereby es tablished at the town of New Mexico, in said county. Iowa county. SECTION 3. The remaining part of the county of Iowa, as it existed before the passage of this act, except towns five, six, seven, eight and nine, of ranges six, seven and eight included in the county of Dane, Seat of justice. shall be called Iowa, and the county seat of said county is hereby established at the town of Mineral Point. Grant county, ed. SECTION 4. And from and after the fourth day of when organiz- March next, the said county of Grant shall, to all intents and purposes, be and remain an organized county, and be invested with full power and authority to do and transact all county business which any regularly organized county may of right do. Commissioners to fix the seat of justice, their duties. Proviso. SECTION 5. That Henry W. Hodges, James Gilmore, E. E. Brock, Orris McCartney and Francis C. Kirkpatrick, are hereby appointed commissioners to fix the seat of justice of said county of Grant, and they are hereby required to perform the said duty on or before the first day of February next ensuing, at such place within said county of Grant, as to them may seem best calculated to promote the public interest, being first sworn to the faithful discharge of that trust; and so soon as they shall have come to a determination, the same shall be reduced to writing and signed by the commissioners, and filed with the clerk of the present county of Iowa, whose duty it shall be to record the same and deliver over the same to the clerk of said Grant county, whenever he shall be appointed, whose duty it shall be to record the same and forever keep it on file in his office; and the place thus designated, shall be considered the seat of justice of said county: provided, that in the event of said commissioners being prevented, from any cause whatsoever, from performing the duty required of them, or if a majority of said commissioners should not be able to agree upon any place for the establihment of said seat of justice, then the seat of justice is tem |