CHAPTER 77.
AN ACT TO ESTABLISH A TERRITORIAL ROAD FROM THE TOWN OF VERMILION TO YANKTON.
Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Dakota:
Section 1. That George Pratt, Ole Botlfson, [and] O. B. Wheeler, be and they are hereby appointed commissioners to locate a territorial road, commencing at a point near the residence of H. Compton, in the town of Vermilion, running nearly north, to a grove formerly claimed by T. W. Jewell, thence crossing the Vermilion river, and striking Clay creek near the residence of J. Seiverson, thence along the bluffs to the ferry of J. B. Greenway, on Dakota river, thence to Yankton.
Sect. 2. It shall be the duty of the commissioners, or a majority of them, to meet at the house of George Pratt on or before the first day of September, A.D. 1862, and proceed with a competent surveyor to locate said road, and to select a person to fill the commission.
Sect. 3. Each county shall pay the expenses incurred in locating, surveying, marking, and staking the same in the said county.
Sect. 4. The surveyor shall be entitled to receive two dollars and fifty cents per day, while engaged in locating the same. It shall be the duty of the commissioners to file in the office of the register of deeds in each county through which said road passes, a plat of so much of said road as is contained in the respective counties.
Sect. 5. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.
- Approved May 13, 1862.
