The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1879-04-17
CHAPTER Io3.

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CHAPTER Io3.
An act for the division of the counties OF
Chippewa and Lincoln, and the erection OF
the county of Price and for establishing
certain towns therein, and for the attach
ing of certain territory to the town of Siegel
in said Chippewa county.
The people of the state Of Wisconsin, repre-
scented in senate and assembly, do enact as
follows:
Section I. All that territory of the coun-
ties of Chippewa and Lincoln lying north Of
the south line of township thirty four go and
south OF the north line of township forty, and
east Of the west line of range two west, and
west of the east line of range three 81 east,
is hereby detached from the counties of
Chippewa and Lincoln, and shall be hereaf-
ter the county of Price.
Section :. The said county of Price is
hereby created and established, with all the
rights, power and privileges by law granted
to and possessed by other counties of this
state, and subject to all the general laws pre-
Scribed for the government of such counties,
except as otherwise in this act provided.
Section 3. The county of Price is hereby
attached to Taylor county for all judicial
purposes, and for all such purposes shall be
deemed to be part of Taylor county; pro
vided, that nothing in this act shall be con
strued to affect the probate or other powers
of the county court of Price county; nor shall
it-in any manner affect the Justice courts of
either Price or Taylor counties; but the iu-
risdiction of justices of the peace in and for
Taylor and Price counties, shall respectively
extend to the limits OF their respective Coun-
tics.
Section 4. Petitions for liens on logs stu
ated in Price county, NAV be fled either in
the Office of the clerk Of the circuit court for
Chippewa county, or in the Office of the clerk
of the circuit court for Price county, as the
petitioner may desire
Section s. The expenses of all actions,
either civil or criminal, tried in Taylor coun-
~, arising in Price county, shall be paid by
the latter county. The claim Of TAYLOR
county for any such expense shall be present
ed to the county board OF Price county, and
allowed in the same manner as any other
claim before being paid by said county; sub
jcct, however, to the right of appeal of said
Taylor county.
be published in 4 newspaper, in any action
may be published in Price county with the
like effect as though said county were organ
lied for judicial purposes.
Section :. The county board of Price
county shall, pursuant to existing laws, Sc
lect and certify 10 the clerk of the circuit
court for Taylor county the names of forty
persons, suitable 10 act as petit Jurors, and
such clerk shall thereupon proceed to draw
from such names in the same manner as
though certified to him by the county beard
of Taylor county. The number Of names
drawn from, of persons residing in Taylor
county, to act as jurors, shall hereafter be
only one hundred.
Section s. The county of Price shall re
main part of the eleventh IN senate dis
trict, part of the assembly district of Chip
pewa county, and part of the eighth (S)
congressional district.
Section @. On or before the tenth day of
March, 1870, the governor shall appoint in
and for Price county, all county officers re
quired by law, except the chairman and
members of the county board: and said ofi-
GERS, when so appointed. shall on or before
March 18th, 1879, duly qualify and enter up
on the duties of their several Offices, and, ex-
cept the county Judge, hold such Offices until
the first Monday in January, 1881, and until
their successors shall be elected and qualified.
The county Judge shall hold his Office until
the first Monday in January, 1882, and until
his successor shall be elected and qualified.
Section 10. All that territory hereby taken
from the counties of Chippewa and Lincoln,
lying north of the north line OF township
thirty five, shall constitute and be known as
the town OF Worcester, and all that territory
hereby taken from the counties Of Chippewa
and Lincoln, lying south Of the north line of
township thirty-five, shall constitute and be
known as the town of Brannan. Other towns
may be hereafter organized according to law.
Section IL. The town of Brannan shall
hold its first meeting at the school house in
township thlTty-tour, range three east, on the
hrSt Tuesday in April, 1879, and shall then
and there fully organize pursuant 10 the gen
eral laws of this state. Until such organiza-
ton shall be fully completed, the county
board Of Price county shall consist of the
town board Of the town Of Worcester. No
notice of such first meeting of the town of
Brannan shall be required, except that given
by the passage of this act.
Section IL. Price county is hereby pro-
hibited from voting or issuing any bonds in
aid of any railroad.
Section Is. For the purpose OF obtaining
a settlement between the county of Price and
the counties of Lincoln and Chippewa re-
spectiyely, of all matters Of difference be
tween or arising out of the division Of the last
named counties, and the formation Of the
county Of Price, and proper division OF the
property OF said counties, and the payment
TO the county OF Price an equitable and just
proportion thereof, the governor shall, at the
time Of appointing the officers OF said county,
appoint committee, whose duty it shall be