The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1861-03-15

the Auditor shall issue warrants for the amount con
tracted to be paid for such printing.
SECTION 81. The State Superintendent shall be al
lowed as compensation for his services salary of
thousand dollars per annum, and contingent fund
OF three hundred dollars per annum said salary to be-
GIN 10 run from the first of January, one thousand
eight hundred and sixty-one
SECTION oS. All acts and parts of acts relating to
common ocnoois, and the Super intendent OF Public
Instruction, and all acts inconsistent with the prov
| sionf eff this act are hereby repealed.
| SECTION SO. This act shall take effect immediately
| GNATIUS DONNELLY,
President of the Senate.
| JARED BENSON
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
Approved March seventh one thousand eight hun
oreo and sixty one. .,
SEcRErARY's OFFICE, MINNESOTA,
March 7th 1851
hereby certify the foregoing to be true copy of the
| original On file in this Office.
r. E. SNOW, Assistant Secretary of.state
An Act to Auhoriz the establishment and regulation of
dams for sluicng logs and lumber.
SECTION L. The Board of County Commissioners n
any county In this State, may grsnt license to n
OF persons applying therefor to construct
tive counties for the purpose of raising head of water
satisfied that such sucedam is necessary at the point
applied Tor and that the land on both sides OF the stream
|
persons SO applying for a license.
Section In all cases. when the stream, across
tween two counties. the Board of County Commission
ers either county shall have as full jurisdiction in the
premist though the st cam wholly within the
county of which they are commissioners And when
the Board ga Of County of either county
shall have granted license hereunder, The County
Commissioners of other county shall have any power
to exercise am jurisdiction the act.
Section g. Al licenses granted under the provisions
County Commissioners and signed by them, ateEed by
the County Auditor and may be granted for p riod not
Section a. All persons intending to apply for license
shall give notice of their intention to apply for license
by corn
and in the Office of the Surveyor eral of Logs of the
districl where the logs running from the place
where such dam is proposed to be built, shall be
unorganzed county, the said shall post
ed at the seat of the county to which the may
shall be given twenty days prior to such application
Provided That when application shall be made for
pired, the same may be granted or renewed without
Section s. The board beirg satisfied that for the gen.
era interest OF those engaged in the lumb ring business
sncs dam S nd and maj me is h a
cense, which, however, shall not become valid until the
the board, in penalty not less than one thousand dol
lars with condition that he will construct and maintain
such dam with all req sonat diligence ana skill for the
purpose OF slucing logs. timber and lumber, and to ia
clate the driving OF the same On such ard with
ton and operation OF such dams as the case may
require.
Section 6. Whenever Board Of County Commits
soners OF any county shall grant license to construct
and maintain sluce dam across any stream within their
jurisdiction the SAID board shall tabsh the of
tolls which may be demanded for the suicage of logs
and Sou ne 9s se mot
provided that al the Snake River dam in Pine County
| the said toll shall be ten cents.
Section I. All tolls chargeable under this act for
sucng logs, timber and lumber, shall be deemed due
or lumber shall have been suced, and the payment
OF the said tolls the proprietor or propretors OF the
timber or lumber until the said tolls shall nave been
paid. And when said tolls, so due, for sluicing logs
owner owners thereof the proprietor or proprieors
of the dam through which The same shall have been
sluced are hereby authorized and empow take
and sell sufficient quantity OF the logs timber or lum
Der, at public auction to pay the tolls SO due Provided
posted up the office of the Surveyor General of Logs
Ssd 81 seed ne
Sec g. This act shall take effect and be in force from
ana %p a,'st si R GssslhE 81, 1861.
An Act to amend an Act defining the duties of County
Surveyors.
SECTION l. That section five of the act defining the
sixty seven of the Public Statutes, be- and the sam is
lowing words: " For every day engaged in surveying
laying out, altering or examining ROADS or routes for
ring all the time that ne may be SO engaged
Section That section ten of said act be- and the
"lninety twol Section ten. Whenever a surveyor is
| required 10 make DIVISION OF a SecuOn established
by the United States survey, he shall proceed as
follows, whether the section be fractional or not,
Of those wnships whose Northern boundary is a
Standard PARALLEL correction line, hereinafter
of the sscon he shall lines Se
opposite quarter section corners of the section and
sd 3i ss Is,
firmly fixed and driven into the ground, and if pract
cable two bearing trees snail be marked in the same
manner, and their course and distance from the said
| noted in the plat aud field toyxp
ships whose northern boundary is Standard Parallel
abl he'd for the sections adjoining it the South by
the United States surveyors, the county surveyor,
establish quarter post on such Standard Parallel
correction ine equi-disant from the section posts
established at the intersection of the parallel by the
section lines South such quarter post to be marked
only the side facing the South and when praccable
bearing trees marked and their and distance
from such quarter post duly note the subdivision of
such sections may be proceeded with as hereinbefore
Section 8. That said act be and the is hereby
thereof, (nney three) Section eleven, ANY
subdivision than quarter section shall be made in the
tional, as f,ilows having established the ore eighth
section at the equdistant points between the ad
common therefor the Intersection OF direct
Lines en- said one eighth sso cor Any
quarter sections, the north boundary and Of the
the west boundary of townships shall be made by as
certaiung The distance by asurement from tho quar-
ter section posts north and west boundaries re-
spectively, and the distance found the original
distance returned according the United States field
notes. is the Oporon Of that distance by
from the quarter section posts north and
spectively les than twenty chains for the
qured length of the south half OF the northeast and
north vest and the half OF the northwest and
southwest quarter sections NINETY four.l Section IL.
The passed May 3d. 1851 entitled An act to regu
late the compensation OF County Surveyors in the Terri
y sa an sgs log OF h
with the provisions Of this act be and the
hereby repealed.
Section L. If the quarter section or section posts,
originally fixed by the United States survey be destroy
ed shall be the duty of the surveyor fix post
such la he may be called upon survey, with
similar marks to those placed ON like posts by the
United States surveyors graved the Elm said posts to
be fixed in accordance with the government field notes.
but this shall not affect the legality OF surveyors
pr ocesdngs previous 10 the passage of this act which
shall take effect and be in force and after the
| sage thereof,
| Approved March 2, 1861.