Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1841-04-06
TEEsHeETQREAEI LAWS.

AN ACT TO ENLARGE THE BOUNDARIES
OF PORTAGE COUNTY, AND FOR OTHER
PURPOSES.
SEcrIo,, l. Be 1t enacted blythe Council
and House Of Representatives. Of the Ter
ritory of Wisconsin,: That all that district
of country lying Immediately north of the
counties Of Sank and Portage, comprzed
in ranges Two, three, four five, six, seven.
eight, and nine, east Of the fourth principal
meridian, and extending to the northern
boundary tie territory north xceptffac
tional township fourteen and fifteen in
range niue east, shall be and made part
Of the county OF Portage.
SEC. 2. The county Of Portage, together
with the dristrict OF country by This act an
next, is hereby temporarily attached to the
county of Dane for judicial purposes, pro-
vded nevertheless that nothing in this act
contained shall in any way affect or vary
any provision Of the ''act TO aPportion the
members Of the House of Representatives
TO the several counties Of the Territory"
approved August 9Th 1870.
Sec. 3. That from and after the fourth
Monday Of March next the said county of
Portage shall be organized for ali purposes
of county government, and the people there
in shall be entitled to all the benefits and
privileges heretofore possessed and eXercl-
sed by the citizens Of other counties in.this
territory organized for county purposes.
SEC. 4. The first election Of county and
township officers shall be held on the fourth
Monday of March next, when the polls shall
be opened at the several precincts herein
provided. The returns of the first cleo
ton shall be made to the clerk of the board
Of county commissioners Of Dane county,
who shall proceed to canvass the votes and
issue certificates in manucrprov by law.
SEC. 5. The county of Portage halIpay
to the county of Dane, seven per centum
Of ali taxes collected in said county Of Por-
tage annually, to delray the judicial ex-
penscs of said County, and shall further
pay the expenses OF the detention and
maintenance of persons committed on
charge Of committing any offence, and the
expense Of trial and punishment after con-
yIclion, when the offence shall have been
committed within the boundaries OF Por-
tagc county, not chargcabIe to the United
States.
r SEC. 6. That the county officers Of the
county Of Portage shall hold their Offices
at Wisconsin Portage.
SEC. 7. All wrils and proceedings now
pending in the district and probate courts,
Of Brown County, aud which have origi-
mated in the district Of country hereby at
tached to the county ofDane, shall be pro-
secuted TO final Judgment in said Brown
county; provided such suits may be re-
moved to the court Of Dane county on the
petition of either of the parties litigant;
and in such case il is made the duty of the
clerk of the district court Of Brown county
TO transmit to the clerk Of said court in
Dane county, transcript of all records
appertaning to such suits.
Sec. s. All that district country bound
cd as follows, TO wit: On the north and
east by the boundary line between this Ter.
ritory and the state Of Michigan; on the
south by the counties Of Manitouwoc, Cal
umet and Wnncbago and the Fox river;
and on the west by the county Of Portage,
shall be,and constitute the county of Brown.
SEC. 8. Nothing in this act contained
shall be construed to affect any rights
heretofore Cldllllcu OF exercised DV S1lC
county of Brown or the counties thereto
attached for judicial purposes, nor shall it
in any manner affect the right Of the said
county of Brown TO collect any delinquent
taxes, or taxes on unasscSscd lands, within
the limits of said Portage county, pursuant
TO the ninth section Of the act for asses
sing and collecting county revenue.
SEC. 10. Election precincts in said
county of Portage shall be as follows, to
wit: at the Franklin house at the Portage:
at Stephens mills, at the Big Bulls Falls,
at the house Of +. Blooner at the Grand
Rapids; at the house Of Abraham Brawlcy
on Mill Creek; and at Dickinsons and
Strouds Mills on Crawfsh run; provided
however, the county commissioners said
county shall have the power to change the
same upon the petition OF twenty electors
Of the respective precincts.
Sec, |. All acts and parts Of acts con-
travening any Of the provisions Of this act
are hereby repealed.
Sec. II. This act shall take effect and
be in force from and after its passage.
Approved, February 18th, 1871.