Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1872-05-30
Laws of Minnesota.
BY Authority.

An ACT authorizing the Judges Of any District
Court to appoint commissioners to lay out
roads through two Or rore counties within
his judicial district.
Dc it enacted by the Legislature Of the State
Of Minnesota:
Section !. Whenever petit N
praying that road be laid through two
or more counties in any judicial district
in this State, signed by twenty legal vo-
tcrs resident in said counties, shall be
presented to the Jud &c Of the District
Court in said district, the said Judge is
hereby authorized to appoint three COM
missioncrs, whose duty it shall be to
meet at such times and places as may
be necessary, and to immediately pro-
coed to lay out road as directed by
the judge, in accordance with the pray
err Of tho petition provided, that no
road shall be ordered by any Judge
to extend more than six miles outside
the judicial district in which the ap.
plication is made, and such road shall
be extended beyond the district only for
the purpose Of commencing or ending
at SOME village or public road.
Sec. 2. Notices Of tie presentation
Of any such petition, as that mention
ed in the preceding section, to- any dis
trict judge. shall be posted at least tlir-
ty days prior to such presentation,in at
least three of the most public places in
said judicial district, and there shall be
one Of said notices posted at each coun-
ty seat of the counties through which
the road prayed for is to pass.
Sec. 3. The commissioners shall ap-
point surveyor, one axeman, and two
chainmen, to make tho survey of said
road. The compensation of the COM
missioners and surveyor shall be four
dollars per day for each individual and
the axenan and chainmcn shall each
receive two dollars per day -; such com
pensation to be paid only for the time
the parties are actually engaged in ma
king such survey.
The expense of such survey and the
damages and expenses which are incur
red by the laying out such road shall be
paid by the counties through which
such road is laid, each county paying
thereof its proportion.
Stakes shall be placed at the starting
point, which shall be on some public
road, and at each Of the angles Of the
road witness trees shall be marked
wherever stakes arc placed provided,
that whore there are no trees, nlonu-
mcnts shall be erected.
Sec. i. The surveyor shall follow
the lines Of the United States surveys
where practicable; and shall make two
or more plats of the location Of such
road, in which the county lines and all
stakes, trees. and monuments, together
with the distances, shall be written and
said surveyor shall forward one Of such
plats to the register of deeds Of each
county through which said road is ]oca-
ted, and such plats shall be placed on
file by such register Of deeds and be a
part of the records Of their Offices The
surveyor shall receive two dollars for
each plat so made and forwarded by
him as aforesaid. -
Sec. 5. The commissioners appoint
cd as herein provided, shall make re-
port of all proceedings had by them
under this act, to the term of the Dis
trict Court held in the county next al
ter the completion of their duties, and
any person feeling aggricvcd may ap-
pear aud he heard tLereat.
The confirmation Of the report of
the commissioners by the Judge Of the
District Court shall in all cases be f.
nal
Sec. 6. All acts and parts Of acts
inconsistent with this act are hereby
repealed.
Sec. I This act shall be in force
from and after its passage.
Approved March +, 1872.
An Act, proposing an amendment to article
nine of the constitution Of the State, by ad-
ding thereto n new section authorizing m
increase Of the pnblic debt for special pur-
poses.
BE it enacted by the Legislature Of tho State
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