Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1871-05-30
Meeting of Commissioners
TO LAY OUT
ST A TIL RIO "A d
Richland Centre to Platteville, Wis.

Richland Centre to Platteville, Wis.
NOTICE is hereby given that the undersigned, APP
~ pointed by Chapter sS OF the Private ana Local
Laws Of the State Of Wisconsin for the year 1871 Com
missoners 10 survey lay out and esta blish state
Road from Riehland Centre, In Rchland county Wis
consn to Pattesille in Grant county, in said state
MA the villages Of Montfort, Avoca and Martinve,
Will Meet at Richland Centre,
in said Richland county, Wisconsin. on the Goth day
of June, A. ID. 1871, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon,
to locate the said road.
The following ia the law of the said State Of Wis
eonsn above reierred.to, appointing the said Com
missioRers.
CHAPTER 9s--LocAL.
AN ACT to lay out a state road from the village Of
Rchland Centre. in the county of Richland to the
village of Platteyille, in the county Of Grant.
The people Of the state of Wisconsin, represented in
senate and assembly, do ena ct as follows
Section l. That Henry c, Barnard, Thomas Wat
son, Hammer Robbins and Lemuel Akey be, and they
are hereby appointed commissioners to survey, lay
out and establish state road, commencing at the
village Of Richland Centre in the county of Rchand
thence the most practicable route 20 the village Of
Platteyie in the county Of Grant, ria the villages of
Montfort Avoca and Martinyille.
Sec. 2. After said commissioners shall have laid
said road, they shall, within sixty days file in
the Office of the clerk Of the board of supervisors OF
the counties Of hchland and Grant, their order lay
ing out said road and definite description of the
same or a survey thereof, and their award Of dam
ages or the releases Of the same.
whose land such highway shall be laid, may be set
tied by agreement between said board of commission
ers and such owner and shall be paid by the towns
respectively, in which the may be located, the
amount lall0wed shall be levied and collected in the
same manner as other town charges.
Sec. 4. Said highway shall be opened and repaired
in the respective towns through which the said high
way shall pass, in the other high
ways Said highway shall not be less than three rods
in width.
Sec. 8. No alteration, vacation discontinuance
Of said highway shalt be made only by act of the
legislature.
Sec. o. Said board of commissioners shall receive
the of two dollars and fifty cents ($250) per day
for every day they shall necessarily be engaged ia the
performance of their duties, and such assistants
they may employ, not exceeding three shall receive
two dollars per day, and one surveyor, whose COM
pensaon shall not exceed i've dollars (S5) per day. to
be paid from the treasures of the counties through
which said road shall pass, in PROPORTION TO the dis
lance of the same.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF and that the above and
foregoing is FULL true, complete and correct trans
cript from the act of the legislature, published,
as compared by the undersigned with said published
copy Of said act, the undersigned, commissioners
above stated have hereunto set their hands this 10th
day of May, A u. 1871. HENRY G. BARNARD
THOMAS WATSON
HAMMER ROBBINS,
LEMUEL AKEY,
Commissioners.
ca Richand County Republican and Grant County
Witness please copy. 5ltd