Sec. 5. This act to take effect and be in force from and after

its passage.

A. LARZALERE,
Speaker of House of Representatives.

C. W. BABCOCK,

President of the Council.
Approved January 25, 1859.
S. MEDARY,

Governor.

AN ACT organizing and temporarily locating the County Seat of Wabaun

see County.

Richardson changed to Wbaunsee.

Detached from
Shawnoe.

Election for counly officers, when,

Term of office.

Be it enacted by the Governor and Legislative Assembly of

the Territory of Kansas :

SECTION 1. That the name of the county of Richardson is hereby changed to and the said county shall hereafter be known by the name of Wabaunsee.

Sec. 2. That the county of Wabaunsee is hereby detached from the county of Shawnee, and an election authorized in said county of Wabaunsec for county officers, to be held on the fourth Monday of March, A. D. 1859, who shall be commissioned by the governor and hold their oflices until the next general election for county officers, and until their successors are elected and qualified.

SEC. 3. The county seat of said Wabaunsee county is hereby
Voting precincts: temporarily located at the town of Wabaunsee, which place, to-

gether with the towns of Alma, Mission Creck and Wilmington
shall be voting precincts for said election, and also for election
for township officers, to be elected on the said fourth Monday of
March, A. D. 1859.

Sec. 4. Said election shall be held under the provisions of the
general law governing the same, and judges and clerks of said
election shall be chosen by the voters assembled at the several
precincts herein named, at the time of opening the polls.

County seat locat

Wabaunsce.

Election how held.

Sec. 5. This act to take effect and be in force from and after

its passage.

A. LARZALERE,
Speaker of House of Representatives.

C. W. BABCOCK,

President of the Council.
Approved February 11, 1859.
S. MEDARY,

Governor.

CHAPTER LX.

AN ACT temporarily locating the County Seats of Wise and Chase Coun

ties (and changing the name of Wise County to Morris County.]

county changed to

seats.

Be it enacted by the Governor and Legislative Assembly of

the Territory of Kansas:

SECTION 1. The county seat of Wise county is hereby tempo- Name of Wigo
rarily located at Council Grove; of Chase county, at Cottonwood Morris; county
Falls.
The name of Wise County is hereby changed to Morris.

A. LARZALERE,
Speaker of House of Representatives,

C. W. BABCOCK,

President of the Council.
Approved February 11, 1859.
S. MEDARY,

Governor.

CHAPTER LXI.

AN ACT to provide for funding the Indebtedness of the Territory.

Be it enacted by the Governor and Legislative Assembly of

the Territory of Kansas :

SECTION 1. That, for the purpose of funding so much of the Treasser to proindebtedness of the Territory as is hereinafter specified, the treasurer of the Territory shall, as soon as practicable, cause to be prepared suitable bonds, not to exceed in amount the sum of

Coupons attached.

Reoord to be
kept of bonds is-
sued,

No bond for leg

dollars.

one hundred thousand lollars, bearing interest at tlic rate of ten per cent. per annum, froin the day of their issue, payable at the

city of New York, on the first day of January, eighteen hundred Interest and sig- and sixty-five. The interest on said bonds sliall be due and pay.

able at the same place, on the first day of January in each year. Said bonds shall be signed by the governor and countersigned by the comptroller, and endorsed by the treasurer, and have the seal of the Territory aflixed thereto.

SEJ. 2. Coupons for the interest shall be attached to each bond, so that the coupon can be removed without injury or mutilating the bond. Said coupons shall be consecutively numbered and signed by the treasurer of the Territory.

Sec. 3. It shall be the duty of the treasurer and comptroller each, to keep a separate record of all such bonds as may be issued under this act, showing the amount, number and date of each bond, and to whom issued.

SEC. 4. No bond shall be issued under this act for a less sum than one lundred than one hundred dollars, nor for the fractional parts of a hun

dred dollars, but the treasurer may issue certificates of such fractional parts of a hundred dollars not bonded, and said certificates shall be transferable and entitled to be funded as heretofore provided.

Sec. 5. The sum of five hundred dollars is hereby approprilars for printing ated out of any money in the treasury, not otherwise appropri

ated, to defray the expenses incurred by the treasury in having said bonds prepared.

Sec. 6. From and after the passage of this act, all persons having any indebtedness of this Territory in the form of warrants upon the treasury, for indebtedness which has accrued subsequent to the first day of November, 1857, or which may accrue prior to the first day of January, 1860, shall, upon presentation of the same to the treasurer of the Territory, receive therefor a bond or bonds of the Territory of Kansas, as provided for in the first section of this act: Provided, That nothing herein contained

shall be construed to authorize the treasurer to issue bonds for in the treasury: the redemption of warrants, when money be in his hands suffi

cient to pay the same.

Sec. 7. The treasurer shall indorse, on the back of each warrant redeemot and rant so redeemed, the date on which he redeemed the same, and

Five hundred dol.

On presentation of warrants, bonds to be given therefor.

To ne paid in money when any

.

to on bonds.

terest paid

secretary of the Territory. The treasurer and comptroller shall each keep a record of the same, giving the number of the warrant, the amount and date of the same, and the number of the bond issued thereon.

SEC. 8. For the payment of the interest on the bonds issued Taxes to be levica under this act, there shall be levied and collected, annually, on the taxable property of the Territory, in addition to the Territorial tax for general purposes, a sum of money sufficient for that purpose, and the sum thus derived shall be set apart for the payment of the interest accruing on the bonds herein provided for; and the faith of the Territory of Kansas is hereby pledged for the payment of the bonds issued under this act, and of the interest thereon.

SEC. 9. It shall be the duty of the treasurer of this Territory quired to see into make arrangements for the payment of the interest of said promptly. bonds when the same shall become due, and, in case the funds, herein provided for that purpose, shall not be collected or shall prove to be insuflicient, the said treasurer is authorized and required to make such contracts and arrangements as may be necessary for the payment of said interest and the protection of the credit of the Territory.

Seo. 10. It shall be the duty of the comptroller of the Terri- Comptroller da tory to attend at least once in each month at the treasurer's orñce, to examine all warrants reccived by the treasurer as aforce said, and to cause the same to be registered and cancelled in such manner as to prevent them from being again put in circulation.

Sec. 11. The treasurer of the Territory shall transmit to the Treasures to make governor an abstract of all his proceedings under this act, with his annual report, to be by the governor laid before the Legislature, and all books and papers, pertaining to the matter provided for in this act, shall, at all times, be open for inspection by any party interested therein, or by any committee of cither branch of the Legislature, ur a joint committee of both.

Sec. 12. The Territorial debts, authorized to be funded by to be funded. this act, are debts due and to become due from the Territory of Kansas, under the provisions of any law passed subsequent to November first, A. D. 1857; and it shall be the duty of the governor and treasurer to write on the face of said bonds that they are issued for the purposes defined in this section.

Sec. 13. That the bonds, hereby authorized to be issued, shall ben dan Lacovable be receivable by the comptroller for banking purposes, under the poses.

cauce redue ed.

to the Governor.

Debts enthorized

bu

provisions of an act authorizing the receipt of State bonds for
banking purposes.

SEO. 14. This act to take effect and be in force from and
after its passage.

A. LARZALERE,
Speaker of House of Representatives.

C. W. BABCOCK,

President of the Council.
Approved February 11, 1859.
S. MEDARY,

Governor.

CHAPTER LXII.

AN ACT to amend an Act entitled "An Act legalizing the Registry of

Deeds for the city of Topeka," approved February 9, 1838.

Change of verbiage of chapter

1858,

Be ii enacted by the Governor and Legislative Assembly of

the Terrilory of Kansas :

SECTION 1. That chapter ninety-one of private laws of Kani private laws, sas Territory, approved February 9, 1858, be and is hereby so

amended as to read, "shall have been obtained,” instead of
(can be obtained.”.

Sec. 2. This act to take effect and be in force from and after
its passage.

A. LARZALERE.
Speaker of House of Representatives.

C. W. BARCOCK,

President of the Council.
Approved February 7, 1859.
S. MEDARY,

Governor.