Wisconsin herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1846-1849, 1847-03-20
Township Meeting.

OF the settlers on the puoHc ianu' "
township one, range one west OF sAe
fourth principal meridian, Grant coun-
ty, w. T., was held at the school house
on Saturday the 18th day of March,
ls47.
Ha;nss was called to the Chair, and X.
r. Young appointed Secretary.
On motion of ]. Muzzy, the follow
inc resolution was unanimously adopt
ed
Resolred, That the chair appoint a
committee of three to report regula-
lions for the government of claimants
in this township.
Thereupon the Chair appointed the
following named persons to act as that
committee: j. Crawford, J. Muzzy and
II. E. Rice.
The committee retired, and in a
short time reported the following
which were unanimously adopted as
the rules and regulations OF this town
ship.
lst. There shall be elected by this
meeting Board Of Arbitrators, con-
sisting Of FIVE persons who are hereby
authorized to settle all disputes be-
tween conflicting claimants upon the
principles Of equity and justice; and
their decision shall be final and conclu-
sive, and if either Of the claimants
shall object to either of the arbitrators
and majority of the board shall con-
slider such objection reasonable, then
the board shall direct such objected
member to retire during that trial, and
the board shall Immediately select a
good suitable citizen to fill such vacan-
cy during that trial only.
ed. The board of arbitrators shall
appoint their own clerk, who shall at
his own expense, provide books, papers
and plats, and the said clerk shall give
public notice by posting up written
notices, in what he shall conceive to
be three of the most public places in
the township, giving at least ten days
warning to all persons having claims in
said township-that they present their
claims to the said clerk for registry.
before the 25th day of April. ls47, and
that the said clerk receive from the
person interested, fifty cents for each
claim presented for registry.
3d. In each Iitigated claim, the board
shall give FIVE days notice to each liti-
CANT Of the time and place, at which
they will arbitrate on the respective
claims. And the said litigants shall
each deposite with the clerk before the
commencement Of the trial, seventy
five cents for the clerk, and the same
sum for each arbitrator, as compen-
satiop for their services in each case
And to have such compensation as a
majority of the arbitrators may think
proper, for serving notices on litigants.
4th. That when any claimant to
public land shall refuse to submit his
claim to the arbitrator, they shall pro-
coed to adjudicate said claim according
to the merits of the case, and their de-
cision shall be fnal.
5th. That the clerk and board of ar
bitrators shall be sworn to the faithful
performance OF their duties without
partiality, fear, favor or Affection
And no witness shall be allowed to
testify until he has first been sworn.
9th. That on the 25th day CT April
next, when there shall be but ono
claimant to any tract of land, the clerk
of the board of arbitrators shall give
the claimant certificate of registry,
and shall pay the clerk fifty cents for
the same.
18th. In litigated cases, the award Of
the arbitrators shall be in writing, a
copy of which shall be given to the
successful party for registry.
sth The board of arbitrators shall
appoint some suitable person to act as
bidder at the public sale, and the said
bidder shall in all cases give in as the
purchaser the person or persons who
shall have been ascertained, as herein
before provided, to be entitled TO pur-
chase said lands, when the right of
said person shall amount to the guam
tity of land sold in any one tract. But
when two or more persons shall be en-
titled to different parcels of the same
eighty acre lot; they shall be purchas-
ed in the name of said bidder, who
shall Immediately after said sale, con-
vey said lands to the persons respec-
lively entitled to the same, as afore-
said-the claimants in all cases TO furn-
ish at the sale, the money to purchase
the lands thus bid off for them, and pay
The expense Of deeds of conveyance.