PART FOURTH.

TERRITORIAL ROADS.

AN ACT

To lay out and establish a Territorial Road from Nebraska City to Omaha City.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Council and House of Representatives of the Territory of Nebraska, That Mills S. Reeves of Otoe county, Isaac Pollard jr. of Cass, and Carlile of Douglas county, be and they are hereby appointed commissioners to view and lay out a Territorial Road from Nebraska City, in Otoe county, to Omaha city, in Douglas county, via Coles Mills in Otoe county (as nearly as practicable,) Wattville in Cass county and Cedar Island in the Platte river.

SEC. 2. The above named commissioners, or any two of them, shall meet at Nebraska City on or before the tenth day of July next, and after taking an oath to faithfully and impartially discharge the duties of commissioners, they shall proceed to survey and mark, by suitable permanent stakes, a road as provided for in section one of this act, and one of the said commissioners may act as surveyor of said road.

SEC. 3. As soon after the said commissioners have completed the survey of said road as practicable, the said commissioners and surveyor shall make out and return to the county clerk of each county through which said road shall pass, certified plats and field notes of that portion of said road, pertaining to each county respectively, which field notes and plats shall be filed and preserved by said clerks.

SEC. 4. The said commissioners shall receive two dollars per day and the surveyor four dollars per day for the time necessarily employed in locating said road, and the chainmen and marker and all necessary help employed in locating said road shall be paid such wages as the board of county commissioners may allow, which shall be audited and paid as other claims by the several counties, in proportion to the distance said road shall pass through the

same.

SEC. 5. When the return provided for in section three shall have been

made, said road shall be deemed in law as established, and shall be regarded and treated in all respects as other roads established by law.

SEC. 6. If, at the time of the location of said road as herein provided, there shall have been a county road laid out from Omaha City to Cedar Island, in the Platte river, then the said commissioners are not required to proceed further north than said Island with the location.

SEC. 7. This act to take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved February 10, 1857.

AN ACT

To establish a Territorial Road from Nebraska City and Kearney City landing to Brownville.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Council and House of Representatives of the Territory of Nebraska, That a Territorial Road shall be located and established as follows, to wit: commencing at Nebraska City and Kearney City landing in Otoe county, and running thence on the nearest and best route to Brownville in Nemaha county.

SEC. 2. John B. Bennet, John Jamison, and James W. Coleman, are hereby appointed commissioners to locate said road.

SEC. 3. It shall be the duty of the said commissioners to meet at Kearney City on the first Monday in April next, or within three months thereafter, and proceed with a competent surveyor and other necessary help to locate said road.

SEC. 4. The said commissioners shall make a report of the location of said road to be subscribed by them or a majority of them, and cause a copy of the same to be filed in the office of the register of each county through which the said road shall pass on or before the first day of July next.

SEC. 5. The said commissioners shall receive three dollars per day each for their services, and all other reasonable and necessary expenses for surveying and locating said, road, which shall be paid equally by the counties of Otoe and Nemaha in the same manner as other county expenses are paid. SEC. 6. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Approved February 9. 1857.

AN ACT

To locate and establish a Territorial Road from Brownville to Kansas line.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Council and House of Representatives of the Territory of Nebraska, That R. Brown, Nathan Haywood, John Fleming, and P. M. Rodgers, be and are hereby appointed commissioners to view and locate a Territorial Road from Brownville via St. George and Table Rock to the Kansas line in the direction of Marysville.

SEC. 2. That said commissioners or a majority of them shall meet at Brownville on the first Monday in July, or within six months thereafter, and proceed to locate and establish a road as designated in section one of this act,

on the nearest and most practicable route. The two commissioners first named shall view and locate said road as far as the town of Table Rock, and the two last named commissioners shall view and locate said road from Table Rock to the Kansas line.

SEC. 3. The said commissioners shall receive cash [each,] as a compensation for service while engaged in locating said road, the sum of three dollars per day, and shall have power to employ all necessary assistance,

SEC. 4. The said commissioners shall make a report of their labors within three months after they locate said road, to the probate judge of each county through which the road passes, which report shall be filed and recorded by the register in each county.

SEC. 5. The cost of laying out and establishing said road shall be paid equally by the counties through which the road shall pass.

SEC. 6.

passage.

This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its

Approved February 11, 1857.

AN ACT

To lay out and establish a Territorial Road from Belleview to Fremont in Dodge county, via Iron Bluffs.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Council and House of Representatives of the Territory of Nebraska, That the commissioners be and are hereby appointed to lay out and establish a Territorial Road from Belleview via Hazleton, Iron Bluffs, to Fremont in Dodge county.

SEC. 2. That said commissioners or a majority of them shall meet in Belleview on or before the first Monday in June next, and proceed to lay out, locate and establish a Territorial Road in accordance with this act.

SEC. 3. That Robert Hamilton, Charles E. Watson, and D. Tediman, be and are hereby appointed said commissioners with power to employ all necessary help in the locating of said road, and further that said commissioners be paid at the rate of three dollars per day for their services while engaged in making said location.

SEC. 4. That all necessary expenses incurred in carrying out the provisions of this act be paid out of the treasury of the counties through which the road may pass.

SEC. 5. This act shall take effect from and after the date of its passage. Approved February 13, 1857.

AN ACT

To locate a Road from Brownville to Nemaha City.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Council and House of Representatives of the Territory of Nebraska, That Jesse Noel, Jerome Hoover, and Wm. Trammel, be and they are hereby appointed commissioners to locate and establish a Territorial Road from Brownville in Nemaha county to Nemaha City in the same county.

SEC. 2. That said commissioners or a majority of them shall, on the first Monday in August next or as soon as practicable thereafter, meet at Brownville in Nemaha county and proceed to lay out said road on the nearest and most practicable route.

SEC. 3. That said commissioners shall receive each three dollars per day for their services while engaged in laying out said road, and shall have power to employ all necessary help in surveying and making said road.

SEC. 4. That all reasonable expenses incurred in accordance with the provisions of this act shall be defrayed by the county through which the said road shall run as soon as sufficient money may be in the treasury of said county.

SEC. 5. That said commissioners shall make a report of their doings and furnish to the probate judge of the aforesaid county, which shall be recorded in the register's office thereof.

SEC. 6. This act shall take effect from and after its passage.
Approved February 9, 1857.

AN ACT

To establish and locate a Territorial Road from Plattsmouth to Chester, Lancaster county, Nebraska Territory.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Council and House of Representatives of the Territory of Nebraska, That James E. Cardwell, William R. Ellington, and Jacob Vallery, be and they are hereby appointed commissioners to mark, survey, and establish a Territorial Road from Plattsmouth, Cass county, to Chester, the county seat of Lancaster county.

SEC. 2. Said commissioners or a majority of them shall meet at Plattsmouth in Cass county, on the first Monday of April next or within three months thereafter, and proceed to lay out and establish said road, in accordance with the provisions of this act, and their compensation shall be three dollars per day for the time actually employed therein, and all necessary ex

penses.

SEC. 3. The cost of laying out and establishing said road shall be paid by the respective counties through which said road shall pass, and the said commissioners shall have power to employ a competent surveyor and all necessay help in laying out and locating said road and each shall receive three dollars per day for their services and all necessary expenses.

SEC. 4. This act to take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved, February, 10, 1857.

AN ACT

To locate and establish a Territorial Road from Fontenelle, Dodge county, to the ferry landing on the Missouri River opposite Cuming City in Washington county.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Council and House of Representatives of the Territory of Nebraska, That Jacob Pate and John West of Washington county, and H. J. Carpenter of Dodge county, be and they are hereby ap