Chap. 226 Appointment of Compensation-. how provided, Proviso. An Act to lay out and establish a certain road therein named. The People of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. That Abraham Morton, C. J. Marsh, and Wellington Kollack, be, and are hereby appointed Commissioners to lay out and establish a state road from Pardeeville in Columbia county, via Montello to Stevens' Point in Portage county. SEC. 2. The said Commissioners shall receive a fair compensation for their services, from the several counties through which said road passes, each county paying a just proportion of said expenses: Provided, that no part of the expense of laying out said road shall be paid out of the State Treasury. FREDERICK W. HORN, Speaker of the Assembly. SAMUEL W. BEALL, Lt. Governor and President of the Senate. Approved March 11th, 1851. NELSON DEWEY. Chap. 227 Grant of sole tain Ferry. An Act granting to John Coumbs and Thomas Andrew the right to keep and maintain a terry across the Wisconsin river in the town of Richwood in the county of Richland. The People of the State of Wisconsin represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. John Coumbs and Thomas Andrew, their heirs, right to main- executors, administrators and assigns, shall have the exclusive right and privilege, for the period of fifteen years, of keeping and maintaining a ferry across Wisconsin river, on section number thirty-six, in town nine, north of range number two west in the town of Richwood in the county of Richland. Regulations and Provision for amendment. SEC. 2. The said ferry shall be subject to such regulations as other ferries are or may by law be subject, and the proprietors thereof shall be entitled to receive for crossing any vehicle drawn by one or two horses or one yoke of oxen forty cents, for each additional horse or ox ten cents, for man and horse twenty-five cents, for cattle or horses in droves eight cents each Provided, hogs and sheep shall not be charged more than three cents per head, and for foot passengers ten cents each. act. SEC. 3. Any future Legislature may alter or amend this FREDERICK W. HORN, Speaker of the Assembly. DUNCAN C. REED, President of the Senate, pro tempore. Approved, March 11th, 1851. NELSON DEWEY. An Act to appropriate to George ilyer the sum therein named. The People of the State of Wisconsin represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: Chap. 228 'priated. SECTION 1. There is hereby appropriated to George Hyer, Amount approout of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of thirteen dollars and seventy-five cents, in full pay-. ment for publishing in the Waukesha Democrat, proposals for public printing for 1850, and notice respecting interest on canal lands, by order of Secretary of State. FREDERICK W. HORN, Speaker of the Assembly. DUNCAN C. REED, President pro tempore of the Senate. Approved, March 11th, 1851. NELSON DEWEY. An Act to change the name of the town of Grand Kaukalin in the county of Brown Chap. 229 The People of the State of Wisconsin represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. That the name of the town of Grand Kaukalin, Change of name in the county of Brown, is hereby changed to Kau-kau-na, by which name it shall be hereafter known. FREDERICK W. HORN, Speaker of the Assembly. DUNCAN C. REED, President pro tempore of the Senate. Approved, March 11th 1851. NELSON DEWEY. An Act to legalise the acts of the Clerk of the Circuit Court of Green County The People of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: Chap. 230 SECTION 1. That the official acts of Noah Phelps, the Clerk Declared valid. of the circuit court of the county of Green, in taking the acknowledgments of deeds and other instruments, from the first day of January, eighteen hundred and fifty, to the first day of March of the same year, be, and the said acts are hereby declared valid in law to all intents and purposes as the said acts would have been if the said Noah Phelps had, as such Clerk, been authorised by law to take such acknowledgments. FREDERICK W. HORN, Speaker of the Assembly. DUNCAN C. REED, President pro tempore of the Senate. Approved March 11th, 1851. NELSON DEWEY. Chap. 231 Who to build and maintain bridge. Draw to be built Rates of Toll. Proviso. List of rates to be posted. An Act to authorise the construction of a bridge across Fox River at Grand Kaukalin. The People of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. That George W. Lawe, David P. Meade and Clark Knight, their associates and assigns, be, and they are hereby authorised and empowered to build and maintain a bridge across Fox river, at some convenient point on the rapids at Grand Kaukalin in the county of Brown. SEC. 2. Said bridge shall not be less than twelve feet wide, and shall contain a draw over the most navigable channel of said river, of sufficient width to pass and re pass all boats and water crafts free of charge and expense and without unneces sary delay. SEC. 3. The persons herein named, their associates an assigns, shall have power after the completion of said bridge to demand and collect tolls for passing the same as follows: for every vehicle drawn by one horse or mule, ten cents; for every vehicle drawn by two horses, oxen or mules, twenty cents; for each additional horse, ox or mule, five cents; for every foot passenger, five cents, and for animals in droves, two cents each: Provided, sheep and hogs shall not be charged more than at the rate of one cent per head. SEC. 4. The said persons herein named, their associates and assigns shall keep posted up in some conspicuous place on said bridge a list of the rates of tolls allowed by this act. SEC. 5. This act may be amended, altered or repealed by any future legislature. FREDERICK W. HORN, Speaker of the Assembly. DUNCAN C. REED, President pro tempore of the Senate. Approved, March 11th, 1851. NELSON DEWEY. Chap. 232 An Act to provide for laying out a State Road from Menasha to Plover Portage. Commissioners appointed. Supervisors may fix compen sation. Proviso. The People of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. That John Boyd, Lyman Fargo and David Sumner, are hereby appointed commissioners to lay out and establish a state road from Menasha to Plover in Portage cour ty, by Fremont and the Little River Mills. SEC. 2. Said commissioners shall receive such sum for their services as the supervisors of the counties through which said road shall pass, may deem proper: Provided, That no money Said road. shall be drawn from the State Treasury to pay for laying out An Act to authorise the laying out of a State road in the counties of Brown and Chap. 233 Portage. The People of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. That J. Wakefield, John Stephens and H. Wil- Commissioners cox be and they are hereby appointed commissioners to lay out appointed. and establish a State road from some point on Fox river, near Route. Appleton, in the county of Outagamie, to Muckwa on Wolf riv er, and from thence to Plover in Portage county. County Super pensation. SEC. 2. The said commissioners shall receive, for the laying visors may deout said road, such compensation as the Supervisors of the sev-termine comeral counties through which the said road shall run, may determine: Provided, that no monies in the State treasury shall Proviso. be appropriated therefor. FREDERICK W. HORN, Speaker of the Assembly. DUNCAN C. REED, President pro tempore of the Senate. Approved, March 11th, 1851. NELSON DEWEY. An Act to authorise the laying out of a State Road thereinnamed. The People of the State of Wisconsin represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: Chap. 234 appointed. SECTION 1. That Wm. O. Giddings, John Nelson and David Commissioners Humes, be, and they are hereby appointed commissioners to lay out and establish a state road commencing at or near the Route. quarter line of section [-] in the town of Bloomingdale, in the county of Winnebago, thence north, on the most feasible route, to the village of Winneconna. visors shall fix SEC. 2. The said commissioners shall receive for the laying County Superof said road such compensation as the supervisors of the said compensation. Previso. county of Winnebago shall determine: Provided, That no moneys in the state treasury shall be appropriated therefor. FREDERICK W. HORN, Speaker of the Assembly. DUNCAN C. REED, President pro tempore of the Senate. Approved, March 11th, 1851. NELSON DEWEY. Chap. 235 Commissioners appointed. Route. County Super visers to pro tion. An act to authorise the laying out of a State Road therein named. The People of the State of Wisconsin represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. That Ebenezer Brigham, Abraham Morse and Sexton B. Newcomb be, and they are hereby appointed commissioners to lay out and establish a State road commencing at or near the house of S. B. Newcomb, on the north-east quarter of section thirty, town seven of range nine east, in the county of Dane,thence running a south-easterly direction until it crosses the State road leading from Exeter to Fort Winnebago in the town of Verona, at the north line of A. D. Carleton's farm, on section ten, town six, north range eight east, thence nearly due west, until it intersects the road leading from Badger Mills to Mineral Point by the way of Blue Mounds. SEC. 2. The said commissioners shall receive for the laying vide compensa of said road such compensation as the supervisors of the several counties through which the road shall run may determine: Provided, that no monies in the State treasury shall be appropriated therefor. Proviso. FREDERICK W. HORN, DUNCAN C. REED, Speaker of the Assembly. President pro tempore of the Senate. Approved, March 11th, 1851. NELSON DEWEY. Chap. 236 An Act to provide for laying out and opening a State Roid from Battlefield to Coon Commissioners pointed to lay cat a road. Prairie in Bad Ax(e) County. The People of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. That David Wright, William T. Sterling and John Graham, are hereby appointed commissioners to lay out and locate a state road from Battlefield at the mouth of Bad Ax(e) river, on the Mississippi river, to intersect with the road leading from Prairie du Chien to Black River Falls at or near |