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SEC. 3. The streets and alleys in the town of Hampden, in Coffey county, are hereby vacated, as hereinafter described: the east half of the southwest quarter, and the southeast quarter of the northwest quarter of section twenty-four, township twenty, and range fifteen.

SEC. 4. That the streets, alleys, parks and public grounds laid off, and on the south half of the southeast quarter of section thirteen (13), township six (6), of range eighteen (18), in the county of Atchison, are hereby vacated.

SEC. 5. The streets, alleys and public grounds of that part of the town site of Delaware, platted and laid out upon the southwest and northwest fractional quarter of section twenty (20), the southeast quarter of section nineteen (19), upon the northwest and northeast fractional quarter of section twentynine, all in township nine (9) of range twenty-three (23), in' Leavenworth county, be and the same are hereby declared to be vacated; but this act shall in no way interfere with the original town site of Delaware.

SEC. 6. The lands included in the towns aforesaid, shall hereafter be subject to taxation in the same manner as if the Taxation. same had not been laid out and platted as town sites.

SEC. 7. This act shall be in force from and after its passage.

Approved, February 20, 1864.

THOMAS CARNEY,

Governor.

CHAPTER CXXVI.

STREETS AND ALLEYS VACATED.

AN ACT to vacate certain streets and alleys.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Kansas:

SECTION 1. That all that portion of Sumner street, Fremont street, Washington street, Reeder street, and Eighth, Tenth and Twelfth streets, in that part of Baldwin City formerly known as Palmyra, and on the northwest quarter of section

Streets vacated.

thirty-four, township fourteen, range twenty, and north of Seventh street, are hereby declared vacated for use as public streets, alleys and highways; and the land of such vacated streets and alleys shall attach equally to the lots thereto adjacent on each side, in proportion to the frontage of such town lots.

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

Approved, February 24, 1864.

THOMAS CARNEY,

Governor.

CHAPTER CXXVII.

CONVEYING A PARK.

AN ACT to convey a certain park.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Kansas: SECTION 1. That Harvey D. Rice and Alanson K. Hawks are hereby authorized to convey to the trustees of the Hartford Collegiate Institute a park, seven hundred square feet, situated in Hartford, Lyon county, for the uses and purposes of said institute.

SEC. 2. This act to take effect and be in force from and af ter its passage.

Approved, March 1, 1864.

THOMAS CARNEY,

Governor.

CHAPTER CXXVIII.

VACATING TOWNS AND CITIES.

AN ACT to vacate paper towns and cities.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Kansas: SECTION 1. That all lands within the State of Kansas which have been, either by individual owners, town companies or other incorporated bodies, set apart, surveyed, laid out or platted into towns, cities or villages, or additions thereto, and descriptions or plats of which, with streets, lanes, alleys, public grounds and lots, may have been made of record, according to law, but upon which, in fact, no town, city or village shall have been erected or exists, but which lands, so subdivided and platted, are unoccupied for the purposes of a town, city or village, are hereby declared to be vacated as such, and the streets, alleys and lanes shall revert to the owners of the lots platted upon them, in due proportion, and the public grounds to the original owners; and all surveys for the subdivision of such lands are expunged from record, and declared null and of no avail in any court of this State, and the lands hereby restored to their original condition under the surveys of the United States government, as if no platting for a town had taken place.

SEC. 2. That, for the purpose of deciding the question of the creation or existence in fact of a town, city or village-that is, whether lands to which the provisions of section one of this act are sought to be applied come under its intent, the following process shall be complied with, viz.: Upon the written petition of any one or more persons, who, by their written affidavit, represent that they are the owners of a majority of the lots or subdivisions of the town site or part of a town site, concerning which action is to be taken, the county board of the county in which the lands may be shall advertise in some newspaper published in the county, and by public notice posted on the land itself, for at least three weeks, that such application has been made, and that, on a stated day, the board will take testimony regarding the occupancy of the lands described, and,

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upon the day set in such advertisement, shall so proceed to take testimony. If it appear to the county board, upon the day of hearing, that no inhabitants owning any of the soil, and dwelling upon any definite pieces or parcels of the land of the quantity of five or more acres in a body, protest against it, then the board shall make its certificate, declaring the provisions of section one of this act duly applied to such definite piece or parcel, and shall, in writing, describe the portions of the town site thus expunged, and, upon a plainly drawn or lithographic map of the whole land, as presented to it for investigation, denote and mark the portions from which, by the application of section one of this act, it has obliterated the survey of a town site. The county board shall then file such certificate and description and descriptive map in the office of the County Recorder, and ever thereafter the land shall be as if never a town site, and shall be taxed as parcels of land by appropriate descriptions in acres.

SEC. 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its publication once in the Daily Topeka Tribune. Approved, February 29, 1864.

THOMAS CARNEY,

Governor.

I hereby certify the foregoing to be a true copy of the enrolled law on file in my office, and that the same was published in the Topeka Daily Tribune for March 4, 1864.

W. W. H. LAWRENCE,

Secretary of State.

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CHAPTER CXXIX.

STATE NORMAL SCHOOL.

AN ACT to aid the State Normal School.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Kansas: SECTION 1. That the sum of one thousand dollars is hereby appropriated to the State Normal School, to be used under the direction of the board of directors of said school, exclusively for the salaries of teachers in said school; and the Auditor of State is hereby required to draw his warrants on the Treasurer of State, in favor of the treasurer of said board, in such sums as said board may direct, not exceeding in amount the sum herein appropriated.

SEC. 2. That this act take effect and be in force from and after its publication in the statute book.

Approved, February 29, 1864.

THOMAS CARNEY,

Governor.

CHAPTER CXXX.

DESTRUCTION OF WOLVES.

AN ACT to encourage the destruction of Wolves.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Kansas:

SECTION 1. That whenever one-half of the legal voters of

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any county shall, by petition, ask the board of County Com- Petition for bounmissioners of such county to make an order allowing a bounty

for wolf scalps, it shall be their duty to make such order: Pro- Proviso.
vided, such bounty shall not exceed two dollars for each scalp.
SEC. 2. That whoever applies for the payment of said bounty,

shall present to the board of County Commissioners, or to the

County Clerk in vacation, the wolf's scalp, including the ears Scalp and ears to

of the wolf, and make affidavit that he killed the said wolf or

be presented as vouchers.

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