act in favor of the said harbor commissioners or such persons To authorize the trustees of school district No. 1, of the town of Summit, to levy a tax to build a school house. Be it enacted by the Council and House of Representatives of the Territory of Wisconsin: SECTION 1. That the trustees of school district number one, of the town of Summit, be and they are hereby authorized to make an assessment of all the property in said district, and to levy upon such assessment a tax of not exceeding two hundred dollars, for the purpose of building a school house; said tax to be collected as other school taxes are now by law collected. WILLIAM SHEW, Speaker of the House of Representatives. MASON C. DARLING, President of the Council. APPROVED, February 8, 1847. HENRY DODGE. County when organized. Certain writs where to be tried. Duty of clerk of Fond du Lac. Officers when AN ACT To organize the county of Winnebago for judicial purposes. Be it enacted by the Council and House of Representatives of the Territory of Wisconsin: SECTION 1. That from and after the first day of January next, the county of Winnebago shall be organized for judicial purposes, and shall enjoy all the privileges and immunities of other similarly organized counties within this ter ritory. It shall form a part of the third judicial district, and the courts therein shall be held by the judge of said district. SEC. 2. That all writs, process, appeals, and recognizances, or other proceedings, which shall be pending undeter mined in the district court of the county of Fond du Lac on the said first day of January, A. D. 1815, which originated in courts of justices of the peace, in said county of Winnebago, shall be remanded back to and determined in the said courts of the county of Winnebago. SEC. 3. That on the said first day of January next, the clerk of the district court of Fond du Lac county shall transmit all writs, process, appeals, recognizances, or other proceedings, originating as aforesaid, together with a transcript of the record in each case, to the clerk of the district court of the said county of Winnebago. SEC. 4. That for the purpose of carrying into effect the to be elected. provisions of this act, at the next annual election there shall be elected a sheriff and such other officers as said county shall be entitled to by the provisions of this act, by the legally qualified voters of said county, whose term of service shall commence on the said first day of January next, and continue for such length of time as is now provided by law. SEC. 5. That the judge of said third judicial district shall hold courts in said county of Winnebago semi-annually, at Courts where held. such times as the said judge may determine, until otherwise provided by law. lished. SEC. 6. That the county seat in and for said county, for County seat judicial and county purposes, is hereby established, after the where estab said first day of January next, on section twenty-four, in township number eighteen, north of range sixteen east: Prorided, that suitable buildings shall be furnished for the holding of courts for said county by the proprietors of said town, free of all cost or charge to the said county, for the next three years; after which, the qualified voters of said county may vote for or against raising a tax for the erection of publie buildings, and if a majority of the same shall decide in favor of said tax, the supervisors or county commissioners of said county, as the case may be, shall levy such a tax upon the taxable property of said county as they may deem necessary to carry out the provisions of this section.. to be given. SEC. 7. When the legal voters of said county shall deter- Certain land mine, by vote, upon raising a tax for the erection of public buildings as aforesaid, before the same shall be commenced, or any money expended therefor, it shall be the duty of the proprietors of the said town where the same are to be located, to execute and deliver to the supervisors or county commissioners of said county, as the case may be, and to be by them approved, a good and sufficient warrantee deed for a public square, or so much ground in some proper and suitable place of said town on which the same may be erected, for the use and benefit of said county, as the said supervisors or commissioners may deem necessary therefor; which said deed shall be recorded in the register's office of said county, and have the like force and effect of other deeds of record. WILLIAM SHEW, Speaker of the House of Representatives. MASON C. DARLING, APPROVED, February 8, 1847. HENRY DODGE. President of the Council. AN ACT For the relief of Jesse A. Clark and Jemima M. Be it enacted by the Council and House of Representatives of the Territory of Wisconsin: SECTION 1. That the marriage contract heretofore existing between Jesse A. Clark and Jemima M. Clark be and the same is hereby dissolved, and the said parties to said contract are hereby restored to all and singular the rights and privi leges of unmarried persons. WILLIAM SHEW, Speaker of the House of Representatives. APPROVED February 8, 1847. HENRY DODGE. President of the Council. Copy of plat to be made. AN ACT To authorize the trustees of the village of Sheboygan to record plat. Be it enacted by the Council and House of Representatives of the Territory of Wisconsin: SECTION 1. The trustees of the village of Sheboygan, in the county of Sheboygan, are hereby authorized to procure a true and certified copy of the map or plat of said village now on record in the district court in the county of Brown, and cause the same to be recorded in the office of the register of deeds in said county of Sheboygan. SEC. 2. Said record, when made pursuant to the preced- Copy to be legal eviing section, shall be, for all purposes, as legal and valid as if dence. the same had been originally made in said Sheboygan county; and said record, or a certified copy thereof, shall be received in all courts as evidence to establish the lines and boundaries of lots, blocks, streets, and alleys in said village. WILLIAM SHEW, Speaker of the House of Representatives. MASON C. DARLING, President of the Council. APPROVED, February 8, 1847. HENRY DODGE. AN ACT To provide for levying a tax on the towns of Be it enacted by the Council and House of Representatives of the Territory of Wisconsin: SECTION 1. That the board of supervisors for the county of Waukesha are hereby authorized to levy that portion of the tax of the town of Summit for the year 1842 which remains unpaid, upon the assessment of the towns of Summit and Oconomowoc for the year 1847, in a manner that each town shall pay, together with what has been paid of said tax, |