PART SIXTH. COUNTY SEATS AND BOUNDARIES. AN ACT To erect the county of Sarpy and for other purposes. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Council and House of Representatives of the Territory of Nebraska, That all that portion of territory included within the following boundaries, to wit: beginning at a point in the middle of the main channel of the Missouri river, due east of a point in the middle of the main channel of the Platte river where the same disembogues into the said Missouri river, thence up the middle of the main channel of the Missouri river to a point two (2) miles due south of the north line of township No. 14 north, thence due west on section line to the middle of the main channel of the Platte river, thence down the middle of the main channel of the said Platte river to the place of beginning, be and the same is hereby created and erected into a new county by the name of Sarpy. SEC. 2. Leavitt L. Bowen, Chas. S. Holloway, and Silas A. Strickland, are hereby appointed commissioners to locate the county seat of the county so to be erected, and that said commissioners shall make said location on or before the first day of July next, and shall make a report of their acts and doings in the premises and file the same in the office of the register of said county. SEC. 3. That the first election for officers of said county shall be held on the fourth Tuesday of May next, and thereafter as prescribed by law. SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That all that portion of territory lying south of the fourth standard parallel and east of the main channel of the Platte river are not included in the boundaries of this act of Sarpy county, be and the same is hereby declared to be a part and portion of Douglas county. SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That an act entitled "An act to create a new election district in the southern portion of Douglas county," approved January 26, 1856, be and the same is hereby repealed; and the said county of Sarpy shall have a representation in the Legislative Assembly, under the last census, in the same ratio as is provided in the act hereby repealed. SEC. 6. That all acts inconsistent with this act are hereby repealed, and that this act shall be in force from and after its passage. Approved February 7, 1857, AN ACT To establish the northern boundary of Washington county, in the Territory of Nebraska. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Council and House of Representatives the Territory of Nebraska, That the northern boundary line of Washington county shall be and the same is hereby established four miles south of the fifth standard parallel. SEC. 2. That all acts and parts of acts contrary to this act shall be and the same are hereby repealed. SEC. 3. That this act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved February 9, 1857. AN ACT To provide for the permanent location of the county seat of Richardson county, SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Council and House of Representatives of the Territory of Nebraska, That the board of county commissioners of Richardson county, Territory of Nebraska, are hereby authorized and empowered to cause an election to be held on the first Tuesday of April, A. D. 1857, at the different voting precincts in said county, for the purpose of permanently locating the county seat of said Richardson county. For this purpose each voter may designate upon his ballot the place of his choice for the county seat, and when the votes are canvassed, the place having a majority of all the votes polled shall be the county seat, and public notice of said location shall be given within thirty days, by the board of county commissioners, by posting up notices, in three several places in each precinct in said county. SEC. 2. It shall be the duty of said board of county commissioners to give at least twenty days notice of said election, by causing notices to be posted up at three different places in each precinct, and the qualifications of voters, the manner of holding elections and making returns thereof, shall be in accordance with the statutes of this Territory governing elections. SEC. 3. If no one place has a majority of all the votes polled as provided for in section one of this act, it shall be the duty of the board of county commissioners of said county, within one month after said election, to order a special election and give ten days notice thereof, by posting up notices at three public places in each precinct in the county, at which election votes shall be taken by ballot between the two highest places voted for at the first election, and the place having the highest number of votes shall be the county seat of said county, and notice thereof shall be given as required by section one of this act. SEC. 4. Any contest of any election held under the provisions of this act shall be brought before the county clerk and shall be conducted and deternined according to the law governing elections in this Territory. SEC. 5. That the county seat of said county be and the same is hereby temporarily located at the town of Salem, in said Richardson county, until said election is held and determined according to the provisions of this act; |