Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1845-03-17
Territorial Laws.
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BE it enacted by the Council and House of Rep
,esentatires Of tie Territory Of Wisconsin:
SEC. l. So much Of the Canal Lands
granted to the Territory OF Wisconsin to
aid in the construction Of the Milwaukee
and Rock River Canal as remain unsold n:
the passage of this act. shall be brought
into market and offered for sale on the Sc
cond Tuesday Of April, one thousand eight
hundred and Iorty-siX, IN the town of Mil
wauke, n, such place as the register and
receiver shall designate, unless such sale
shall be hereafter prohibited by an act Of
Congress And ii is hereby made lheir
duty TO advertise the same for four months
prior 10 the day Of sale, in two weekly
newspapers printed in the County of Mil
waukie.
Sec. 2. There shall be elected annually,
by the joint ballot of both houses of the
Legislative assembly, q register and receiver
who shall keep their Offices n, Milwaukee.
in the county o! Milwaukee, and shall con
tinue in Office for one year, and until their
successors shall be duly elected and quail
fled, who shall give bonds TO the Governor,
for the benefit OF the Territory, the register
in the sum of ten thousand dollars, and the
receiver in the sum Of fifty thousand dollars,
with two or more sureties 10 be approved
by the Judge Of the third judicial districts,
for the faithful discharge Of all the trusts
and duties imposed on them by law, which
bond shall be duly executed and filed with
the treasurer Of the territory before they
enter upon the duties of their respective
offices, provided that the governor shall be
and he is hereby authorized TO require addi
tional securities from the receiver, when
ever, in his opinion, the public interest may
require the same.
SEC. 3. Such lands shall be sold in all
cases to the highest bidder, at no: less than
one dollar and tive nty-fivc cents Ier acre,
TO be paid in the legal currency Of the u.
States on the day Of sale, and on such pay
mont being made the register and receiver
shall execute and deliver TO such purchaser
certificate specifying the tract or parcel
OF land and the amount paid for The same.
Bat in case the whole OF the purchase mo-
nev on any land sold shall not be paid be-
fore the commencement OF the sales on the
next succeeding day, the said land shall
again be offered for sale Gs ii no previous
sale had been made.
SEC. 4. II any purchaser Of any lands
sold under this act shall not be the owner
Of the Improvements on the same, the said
purchaser shall pay 10 the owner Of such
improvements, before he shall be entitled
to possession Of such land, and within three
months from the date Of the sale, the foil
value of such improvements, 10 be ascer-
tanned in cases of disagreement by the ap.
praisal of three disinlecested persons, 10 be
appointed by the ludga Of the judicial dis
trct wherein the said lands may be. unless
The parties may agree upon such appraisers.
And any tract OF land having thereon yalu
able improvements al the passage OF this
act, shall not be sold in less quantity
than oulrter section or fractional quarter
section, unless the person owning such i'm,
provements shall otherwise in writing direct,
said writing to be flel with The register
md receiver twenty days previous TO the
dav OF sale as prescribed IN the first section
of this act: and in case two or more per-
sons shall have valuable improvements on
the same tract, the person having the first
permanent improvement and possession
shall be entitled To direc; in what legal
subdivision the said tract (0n which such
improvements shall have been made) shai!
be sold, not exceeding quarter section or
fractional quarter section, as the case may
be. any :hing in the fourth section Of this
act TO the contrary Notwithstanding.
SEC. 5. Such public sales shall be con-
tinucd from day to day until all the lands
specified in the first section OF this act shall
have been offered for sale; and all such
lands as shall remain unsoId at the close oil
the public sale, shall be subject To entry
upon the same terms and conditions as now
govern the entry Of the public lands o! the
United States, provided that no such lands
shall be sold Mt less than one dollar and
twenty-five cents pei acre, and no payment
shall be received except in gold or silver
c1in. And it is hereby made the duty OF
the said register and receiver, on applica-
ton Of any person wishing 10 purchase any
OF said lands, TO permit said lands 10 be
sold or entered in tracts Of forty acres, and
less when there is fractions OF less quan,i-
ties OF less quantities agreeable to the pub
lie surveys.
SIC. 6. Ii shall be lawful If Congress
by act shall approve this net as hereinafter
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canal lands heretofore sold under acts OF
the legislative assembly, or for their lawful
heirs or assigns 10 avail him, her or them
selves, of the provisions Of this act by pay
ing to the receiver, on or before the first
Monday of July next, ten per cen:. OF the
balance due on such lands without including
any interest, and estimating the original
purchase al one dollar and twenty-five cents
per acre, and the remainder between the
The first Monday and second Tuesday OF
April, one thousand eight hundred and
forty-six, and such payments, If mace as
aforesaid in the legal currency Of the U.
States, shall be in full satisfaction for the
purchase money Of said lands and on re-
ceiying the same the receiver shall cancel
or release and discharge Of record any
bond and mortgage executed by the original
purchaser, so far as the same NAV affect
anv portion of land upon which such i'm
movements shall be made, provided ,he, no
payments shall be received from any such
purchaser or owner until satisfactory evil
dence shall be furnished TO the receiver