Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-04-14
Published April 5, 1881. ]
CHAPTER 249.

CHAPTER 249.
AN ACT to provide fer locating,
establishing, opening and maintain
ing a state road from the city of
Grand Rapids, in Wood county,
to Stevens Point, in Portage county,
Wisconsin.
The people of the state of Wisconsin,
represented in senate and assembly,
do enact as follows:
Section 1. L. Il. Hitchcock and
Francis Boron of Wood county, and
Henry Curran and L. n. Hansen of
Portage county, Wisconsin, are here
by appointed commissioners to locate,
cause to be surveyed, marked and
plated, pursuant to the statute in
such case made and provided, a state
road from the northern boundary OF
the city of Grand Rapids, in Wood
county, to the southern limit. of the
city Of Stevens Point, in Portage
county. Wisconsin, by way or near
to Mill creek ferry, in the nearest and
most direct route which shall seem to
them practicable between said two
cities, hereby authorizing and empow-
ering said commissioners to adopt and
lay out said state road upon and along
any part or parts of such highways as
already exist upon the line that shall
be designated and located by them for
said state road.
Section 2. Said commissioners shall
proceed in said matter in all respects
as provided by the revised statutes in
such case. except where herein other
wise expressly provided, and shall re-
ceive as full compensation for their
said services the sum of two dollars
each per day, fer the time actually
and necessarily spent by them in said
matter, to be paid by the said counties
of Wood and Portage respectively,
in proportion to the length of said
road i'll each of said counties; and said
counties of Wood and Portage shall
also pay, each in proportion
to the length of said road
within its limits, such reasonable
and necessary expense for services Of
a surveyor and his necessary help as
shall be necessarily incurred by said
commissioners in surveying, marking.
plating and copying the plat of said
road. Provided, chat no claim or de-
mand for such services or any part
thereof shall be audited or paid by
either OF said counties until the locat-
ing, surveying, marking and plating
of said state road shall have been fully
made and completed, and the original
plat thereof filed in the Office of the
secretary of state, and copies Of said
plat filed as follows, to wit: One
copy thereof with the county clerk of
Wood county, one copy thereof with
the county clerk of Portage county,
and one copy thereof in the Office ofthe
clerk Of each of the several towns
through or into which said state road
shall be located. The said original
plat of said state road and each Of
said copies shall be properly certified
by said commissioners, or majority
of them, and by the said surveyor,
under their hands and seals, and ac-
knowledged before notary public.
Section 3. The supervisors of each
Of the several towns through or into
which said state road or any part
thereof shall be located as aforesaid,
are hereby directed and required to
cause such part thereof as shall be
located in their SAID town to be open
ed and worked aud put in fair and
reasonably good and safe condition
for use as a public highway within
one year from the date of the fling
of copy of the plat thereof in said
town, and thereafter to repair, improve
and maintain the same as d public
highway Of said town
SECTION 4 Chapter one hundred
and sixteen Of the laws of Wisconsin
for the year 1879 is hereby repealed.
Section s. This act shall take
effect and be in force from and after
its passage and publication,
Approved March 81, 1881.
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