Du Buque visitor. [volume] (Dubuque, Lead Mines, Wisconsin Territory) 1836-1837, 1837-02-08

make and lay out territorial road
west of the NississipPl, commencing
at Pennington on the Des Moines RE
yer. thence to Mofitt's mill, thence on !
he nearest and best route to Burling-
Ton in Des Moines county, thence to
Wapello, thence by thenearest and best
route to Du Buque, and thence by the
nearest and best routeto the ferry OPP
posite Prairie dn Chen.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted,
that the commissioners aforesaid or a.
nv three of them shall meet at the
town of Du Bugue on the first Mon
day Of Nay next, for stae purpose OF
proceeding to the discharge OF their du.
ties as commissioners as aforesaid; and
that they be and they are hereby au-
thorized to adjourn from time to time,
and from place to place, as majority
of them may agree and determine; and
that in case the said commissioners
! from any cause, shall fail to meet at
the time and place aforesaid, or any
other time and place to which the SAID
commissioners may have adjourned,s
that then the sheriff of the county Of
Du Buque be authorized and heis here
by required, on the application OF any
one OF said commissioners, either YER
bal or written, to notify in writing the
said commissioners Of some other day
+ to be by him appointed, and request
theirattendance on such day atthe place
aforesaid.
h Sec. 8. And be it further enacted,
that the said commissioners or major
ity of them be and they are hereby re-
iquired to employ one or more eompe-
tent surveyors, and such numbers OF
, chain carriers and other hands as to
them may seem necessary in the loca-
ton Of said road. That the said COM
missioners mark or cause the said road
, bv them located to be marked By stakes
in the prairie at a reasonable distance
apart, and by blazing trees in the Tim
| Der; that at the end Of each mile the
said commissioners cause large and
prominent stake to be set, marking
: thereon the number of miles from the
point hereinbefore named, from which
they shall have last departed.
Sec. 4. And be it further enacted,
4 that the surveyor or4sllrvegors employ
e ed as aforesaid, be authorized. and he
q or they are hereby required to make
: out true and correct plat and field
!, notes by him or them kept in locating
d said road, within one month from the
: completion Of the survey thereof, and
e that he or they make out and file one
$, copy thereof in the otiic: Of the clerl
d Of each county through which the con
e tcmplated road shall pass, and the clerk
} of said counties in whose Office sait
e plats and field notes shall be filed shall
9, record and preserve the same, and tina
of said road when so laid out and estab
lished be forever the highway.
r. Sec. 5. And be it further enacted
y that the said commissioners be allowe
ID the sum of three dollars per day each
y, and the surveyors and other hands sue
III sums as the said commissioners shal
id contract for, not exceeding the sum 6
id FIVE dollars per day each to the survey
IN or or surveyors, and not exceeding tn
id sum of one dollar and fifty cents eac
o. per day to the laborers; that the sal
rs commissioners do, after the completio
id of the survey OF said road, make OF
n under oath true and correct accour
IS, Of their own as well as Of the service
us Of the surveyor or surveyors and hand
er charging each county through whic
he the road may be located their propo
o. ton, agreeably to the number of day
sc actually engaged therein, and that II
h board of supervisors of the sever
st, counties against whom the said a
M counts shall be made. shall audit ar
rat settle the same.
be Sec. 6. And be it further enacte
m that said road shall be opened and ke
es- in repair as county roads are, and tn
Tor no part of the expenses incurred
lid damages sustained by any person
persons in laying out said road, sh;
~ be paid out of the territorial treasur
ar Sec. 7. And be il further enacte
ice that the commissioners aforesaid /
his fore they enter upon their duties
ie- commissioners under thisact shall ia
SEES an oath before some Judge or justice
aw the peace well and truly and to t
md best Of their abilities to perform t
at duties required Of them by this act.
ing Sec. s. And be it further enactt