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TERRITORIAL ROADS.

AN ACT

To locate a territorial road from St. James to Columbus.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Council and House of Representatives of the Territory of Nebraska, That M. H. Deming, Carl C. P. Meyer and Robert P. Kimball, are hereby authorized and appointed commissioners to survey and locate a territorial road from St. James in Cedar county, to Columbus in Platte county.

§ 2. It shall be the duty of said commissioners to meet at the house of M. H. Deming in said town of St. James, on or before the first day of August, A. D. 1861, being provided with a competent surveyor, and such other assistance as may be necessary for the purpose; and forthwith they shall proceed to locate said road upon the nearest and most practible route.

§ 3. Within three months after the survey and location of said road, said commissioners shall file a plat of the same with the register of deeds of each of the counties through which the same may pass; and the said road shall be considered as permanently located from and after the filing of the plats as aforesaid, and after it shall have been well staked or marked.

§ 4. Said commissioners shall receive three dollars per day each, the surveyor four dollars per day, the chain carriers two dollars per day, and teamsters three dollars per day.

§ 5. The expense of the location of said road shall be borne equally by the organized counties through which it may pass, and the county commissioners of such counties are hereby authorized and required to issue warrants for the amount due those persons employed as aforesaid, upon the presentation of the certificate of the surveyor as to the service rendered.

§ 6. Said commissioners, surveyors and chainmen shall take an oath to faithfully discharge their duties, before entering upon the performance of their work.

Approved January 1st, 1861.

AN ACT

To amend an act entitled "An act to locate a territorial road from Fort Calhoun, in Washington county to Fontenelle, in the same county."

SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Council and House of Representatives of the Territory of Nebraska, That an act entitled "An act to locate a territorial road from Fort Calhoun, in Washington county to Fontenelle, in the same county," passed at the sixth session of the legislative assembly of Nebraska territory, be so amended as to allow the commissioners (provided for in said act) until the first day of July, A. D. 1861, to complete the survey of said road, and make their return to the county clerk, and that the same shall be binding in law, as it would have been if completed under and in the time specified in the original act.

§ 2. Said road shall commence on the Missouri river, at or near the north-east corner of section twelve (12) in township seventeen (17) north of range twelve (12) east of the sixth principal meridian, and terminate at some street on the eastern boundary of the city of Fontenelle.

§ 3. The commissioners for locating said road shall be entitled to receive the sum of three dollars per day for the time they are engaged in viewing and locating and platting said road, and they are hereby empowered to employ one surveyor, who shall receive three dollars per day, and two chainmen, who shall receive two dollars per day each, and one teamster and team, who shall receive three dollars per day for himself and team.

§ 4. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Approved January 1st, 1861.

AN ACT

To re-survey a part of the territorial road leading from Nebraska city in Otoe county, to Tecumseh in Johnson county, Nebraska territory.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Council and House of Representatives of the Territory of Nebraska, That John B. Sharret be and is hereby appointed a commissioner to re-survey and re-locate a portion of the territorial road leading from Nebraska city in Otoe county, to Tecumseh in Johnson county, beginning at a point where the said road crosses the Nemaha and Johnson county line, thence to cross Spring creek on or near the north-west fractional quarter of section number eighteen (18) in township number five (5), north of range number twelve (12) east, thence the most practicable route to Tecumseh.

§ 2. The said commissioner shall employ a surveyor, who shall be allowed three dollars per day for every day actually employed in said re-survey, but no other expense shall be allowed.

§ 3. The commissioner and surveyor shall make out and sign a report to which shall be attached a plat or map showing the changes in said road, which shall be filed of record in the office of the county clerk of Johnson county.

§ 4. When the report of the commissioner and surveyor, with a plat showing the changes in said road, shall have been filed as specified in the preceding section, the county commissioners shall draw a warrant on the county treasurer of Johnson county in favor of the surveyor for the sum which he may be entitled to receive for his services.

§ 5. The said commissioners shall, on the first day of May, 1861, or within three months thereafter, proceed to make such a change as he may think necessary.

§ 6. This act to take effect from and after its passage. Approved January 4th, 1861.

AN ACT

To create and establish a territorial road from Plattsmouth, Cass county, to Fort Kearny, in Kearny county, Nebraska territory. SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Council and House of Representatives of the Territory of Nebraska, That a territorial road eighty feet wide be located and established, on the most eligible route for a wagon road between the mouth of the Platte river and Fort Kearny.

§ 2. That the line of the county road located by John Evans, commissioner, from the mouth of the Platte river to the centre of section fifteen, township eleven, range ten, be the line of said road as far west as said section fifteen, and that the commissioner and surveyor herein named shall, on or before the first day of June next, or within three months thereafter, commence and as soon as practicable, locate said road from said section fifteen to Fort Kearny.

§ 3. When the commissioner herein appointed shall file a plat of the location and survey of said road in the office of the county clerk of each organized county through which the road shall pass, properly certified, the same shall be to all intents and purposes, a territorial road.

§ 4. That Anselmo B. Smith, be and is hereby appointed a commissioner and surveyor for the purposes herein named. He shall receive three dollars per day for his services while actually employed in such location and survey.

§ 5. That said commissioner shall be authorized to employ such assistance only as shall be actually necessary to the survey and marking out of said road.

§ 6. That the expense of said survey shall be borne equitably by the organized counties through which it shall pass. To be apportioned by the county commissioners of Cass county.

§ 7. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its pass

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AN ACT

To locate a territorial road from Nebraska city to Brownville.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Council and House of Representatives of the Territory of Nebraska, That T. D. Crook and O. N. Updegrove of Otoe county, and Thomas M. Green of Nemaha county, be, and they are hereby appointed commissioners to locate and establish a territorial road, commencing at Nebraska city in Otoe county and running thence via Peru to Brownville, Nemaha county.

§ 2. Said commissioners or a majority of them shall meet at Nebraska city on or before the first Monday in May next and proceed to locate and establish said road in accordance with the provisions of this act

§ 3. Said commissioners shall receive each, the sum of one dollar per day for the time actually engaged in locating said road, and shall have power to employ a surveyor and all necessary help to lay out and establish said road, and the expenses incurred in locating and establishing said road to be paid in equal proportions by the counties through which said road is located.

§ 4. Within three months after the survey and location of said road, the commissioners shall make or cause to be made a plat of said road, and file a copy of the same in the office of the register of deeds in each of the counties through which said road is located, and when the plats are filed the road shall be permanently established.

§ 5. This act to take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Approved January 4th, 1861.

AN ACT

To locate and establish a territorial road from Rockport, Washington county to Elkhorn, in Douglas county.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Council and House of Representatives of the Territory of Nebraska, That Wm. Russell, Joseph Chapman and Thomas Boyer are hereby appointed commissioners to locate and establish said road.

§ 2. It shall be the duty of said commissioners or a majority of them, to meet at the town of Rockport, on or before the the first day of July 1861, with a competent surveyor and such other help as is necessary to assist in locating said road, then the said commissioners shall proceed on the most practicable route along or near the line between Douglas and Washington counties to locate said road to the town of Elkhorn.

§ 3. Within three months after the survey of said road, they shall file a copy of their proceedings had, showing the location of the road, which shall be signed by them, and certified to by the surveyor employed for that purpose, when so signed and certified, with the register of said county; when the plats are filed, the road shall be permanently located.

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