Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1921-12-09

selected and qualified.
Sec. 8. That VIM. Lucas, Jess,
/ Logsdon and J. A. Perkins be APP
pointed commissioners to locate
county seat until the next genera
election.
Sec. 4. That at the next genera
/ election the location of county sea
shall be voted upon and the place re
ceiving a majority of all the vote!
cast at such election shall be de
clared by the board of county com.
mssioners to be the county seat OF
said county.
Sec 8. That all taxes, assessed
for the year A, d. 1871 shall be col
lected by the officers of and paid to
the county treasurer of Stevens
county.
Sec. 6. 1t shall be the duty of the
auditor of Whitman county to trans
NIT to the county commissioners of
Stevens county, at their May term, A.
D. 1871, certified statement of the
amount of taxable property in said
county as shown by the assessment
of A. d. 1872. 1t shall be the duty
of the county auditor of Stevens
county to ascertain the exact indebt-
edness on and up to the first day of
January, A. d. 1872, Also the amount
of taxable property as shown by the
assessment of 1872, and make a GER
titled statement of same to the coun-
ty commissioners of Stevens and
Whitman counties at their May term,
A. d. 1872, and whatever that in
debtedness may be it shall be shared
pro rata by each county in proper
ton to the taxable property returned
by the respective officers of said
hcounty; and it shall be the duty of
the county commissioners of Stevens
and Whitman counties on the receipt
of the auditors certified copy to as
certain what amount each shall can
eel of the Indebtedness of Stevens
county, the said Whitman county
shall issue county orders in favor
of Stevens county for that amount,
which shall have priority of payment
over any county orders that she may
issue, and the county auditor Of
Whitman county shall transmit to
the county auditor of Stevens county,
before the first day of July, A. d.
1872, the amount OF county orders
that shall fall to Whitman county to
issue in favor of Stevens county:
Provided, that the county of Whit
man shall not be held or be liable
for any Indebtedness or portion of
Indebtedness incurred by the said
county of Stevens after the first day
of January, A. d. 1872.
Sec. Z. The county of Whitman
is hereby united to the counties OF
Walla Walla and Stevens in the cleo
ton of joint councilman, and to the
county of Stevens in the election of
joint representatives
Sec. s. The said county of Whit
man shall be united to Walla Walla
county for judicial purposes.
Sec. 8. All laws of a general ma
ture in regard to the counties OF
Walla Walla and Stevens in the ter
ritory, shall be applicable to said
county.
Sec. 10. This act shall be in force
and take effect from and after the
first day of January, 1872.
Approved November 20, 1871.
EDWARD S. SALOMON,
Governor of the Territory OF
Washington.
Here was a territory set off for a
county a little larger than the state
of Connecticut, and a third larger
than states of Maryland and Rhode
Island combined. There was not a
regularly surveyed or plated town
i'll the county, and that part, at least
which we now know as Whitman
county was unsurveyed The fifth
parallel of latitude had not been
traced across the land where it was
fixed as a part of the boundary The
stone house mentioned was supposed
to be about on the fifth parallel, but
it was afterward ascertained that ii
was seven or eight miles south. The
stone house was on John d. Eaton S
ranch and was almost west of the
south end of Rock Lake and but a
few miles from the lake, while the
fifth parallel is about three miles
north of the north end of the lake
In the summer of 1872, the gov
eminent began surveying the county,
The completion of the survey indi-
Gated the discrepancies in the north
ern boundary. as described in the or
ignal bill, and the legislature of 1875
DasSpd an act entitled An Act IN