Wisconsin herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1846-1849, 1846-02-14
LANCASTER. SATURDAY,. FEBRUARY a. 1876

Gregoirc and Henry A. Wiltse, COM
mssioners, to view and examine the
lots actually improved and occupied,
land to assess the value thereof accord
ing to the provisions of the said act OF
Congress, and the commissioners APP
POINTED by the said Surveyor General
ibid thcreupon assess the valueupop all
such lots to which presumption right
lhad been granted by Us. and they also
made out certified copy of such vail
nation which they filed in our Office
Your commissioners would here re-
mark, that the commissioners appoint
ed by the Surveyor General of Wis
consin and Iowa, in assessing the value
1of lots upon said section actually occu-
lpied and improved did not regard the
Limitation provided by the sixth sec
ltion Of the said act Of the said assem-
bly,, having in many eases fixed the
value Of such occupied and improved
lots below tie minimum valuation
provided by the sixth section Of SAID
act.
| Your commissioners would further
report, that Robert Tempieton, APP
lpointed by the said act of the said as
sembly receiver of the funds arising
from the sale of lots upon said section,
declined in writing TO act and qualify
as such receiver. Your commission
ers thereupon appointed Joel Allen
Barber such receiver, who qualified as
provided by the said act of the said
assembly, whose official bond and his
sureties were approved by US and for
warded TO the Governor of the Terri
tory.
That after such valuation was com
fpletcd, and return thereof made to US,
we gave notice in the manner provided
lin the seventh section of the said act
.Iof the said assembly, that all the lots
on said section of land, not entered by
prescription according to the provis.
lions of the said act of Congress and Of
the said Assembly, prior to the day of
Esale, would be sold at public auction
to the highest bidder, for cash, on the
fifteenth day ofSeptcmber, lS45 and
that all lots upon said section not pur-
lchased by presumption previous TO the
Isald day OF sale were sold in pursuance
Iof the said notice and of the said acI
of the said Assembly, on the fifteenth
and sixteenthdays of September, ls45,
lat the town of Potos, in said Terri
tory. The aggregate amount Of all
(which sales is tile sum of four thousand
lohe hundred and thirty dollars and
Isixty-four cents.
i Your commissioners further report,
that they have kept a record Of all
their proceedings and have made ac-
curide returns to the Governor of the
Territory of Wisconsin, of all lots sold
by presumption or otherwise, accord
ing to any of the provisions Of the said
act of the said Assembly.
That after the sale of the said lots.
we caused an estimate and survey to be
made of the improvement contemplated
| by the said act of Congress, which was
made by and under the direction Of
Capt. Joshua Barney, United States
Civil Engineer, experimenting the inn
provement of the Du Buque harbor,
in Iowa Territory; which estimate
and survey and all other information
connected with the proposed improve.
ment collected by US, are embodied in
the report of Capt. Barney, herewith
Submitted as part Of this our report.
The views of Capt. Barney in rela-
ton TO the proposed Improvement as
set forth in bis renort we fully concur
IN. having examined the ground with
him.
Your commissioners would further
report, that the aggregate amount ol
Expenses allowed and audited by them
for all expenses in surveying the said
section into lots, making the maps, adj
justing claims TO presumption rights to
lots on said section, selling said lots
printing, and for making the survey
and estimate Of the said improvement,
aud all other expenses incurred by
them in the discharge of t.eir duties
as such commissioners, Is the sum OF
thirteen hundred and City dollars and
forty cents. for which amount drafts
were drawn on the receiver as pro
yided by law, the items of which ex-
pendiiure will be found 10 the annual
report Of the receiver, to which refer
ence is made.