CHAPTER 78.
Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Dakota:
Section 1. That Henry Brooks, C. C. Cooper, and Samuel Mortimer, be and they are hereby appointed commissioners to locate and establish a territorial road from Yankton, via Smutty Bear's Camp, Bon Homme, Springfield, and Neshuda, to the mouth of Choteau creek.
Sect. 2. It shall be the duty of said commissioners or a majority of them, to meet at Yankton on or before the first Monday in June next, and proceed to locate said road.
Sect. 3. Said commissioners shall have power to employ all necessary help for the location of said road, and that said commissioners be paid at the rate of two dollars per day, while necessarily engaged in making the said location.
Sect. 4. Each county shall pay the expenses incurred in locating, surveying, marking, and staking the same in the said county.
Sect. 5. If a majority of the commissioners do not meet at the time prescribed, it shall be the duty of such as are there, to fill the commission and proceed to locate the same, and mark, and plat, and file the same, in the county clerk's office of the county through which it passes.
Sect. 6. This act shall take effect immediately upon its passage, and approval by the governor.
- Approved April 5, 1862.
