be returned and canvassed as therein provided; and the clerk of the board of county commissioners of the county of Iowa shall issue certificates of election to the persons duly elected under the provisions of this act. election. SEC. 5. The clerk of the board of county commissioners Notices of for Iowa county shall cause notice to be posted up in all the precincts of said county of La Fayette, for the election of the officers to fill the aforesaid vacancies, at least thirty days. before the time of holding the same. SEC. 6. The county of La Fayette shall form a part of the District court first judicial district; the first term of the district court shall when held. be held on the first Monday of September next, and thereafter semi-annually, at the seat of justice for said county, one term on the first Monday of September, and another on the third Monday of April of each year. held. SEC. 7. That until suitable buildings are provided at the Court where seat of justice for said county of La Fayette for the accommodation of the district court and the officers which by law are now required to be held at the seat of justice, it shall be the duty of the county commissioners of said county to provide rooms for holding the sessions of the district courts at such place in said county as they may deem most convenient for its inhabitants; and the said commissioners shall give public notice at three several places in each precinct of said county, of the place selected by them for holding the said court, and forward to the judge of the said district court, a copy of said notice, sixty days before holding the said first session; and the place so selected shall be deemed, for all intents and purposes, the court house of the said county for the time being. out their SEC. 8. All officers residing in the county of Iowa at the Officers of time of the adoption of this act, who were elected for Iowa Iowa to hold county at the last general election, and who do not reside terms. within the limits of the county of La Fayette, as defined in the first section of this act, shall be and remain officers of Iowa county during the term for which they were respectively elected; and to fill the vacancies in all such offices in the county of Iowa as by virtue of this act shall become vacant, how filled. Vacancies Concerning debt of Iowa county. Governor to shal to take census. Marshal to take oath. the legal voters of said county of Iowa shall hold a special election on the first Tuesday of April next, at the usual places of holding elections, in the respective precincts of said county of Iowa, whose terms of service shall commence on the first day of May next, and continue until the time now provided by law for the election of their successors. SEC. 9. The debts and liabilities of the county of Iowa, as the same may exist on the first day of May next ensuing the passage of this act, shall be divided between the said counties of La Fayette and Iowa; and each of said counties. shall pay such a proportion of such debts and liabilities as their population, respectively to be ascertained as hereinafter provided, shall bear to the whole population of both counties, when so ascertained. SEC. 10. The governor shall appoint in each of said counappoint mar ties of La Fayette and Iowa, some suitable person who is hereby authorized and required to cause the number of inhabitants in his respective county to be taken, omitting in their enumeration, Indians not citizens, and soldiers of the United States army; and the persons so appointed shall have power to appoint assistants to aid them in taking the census. SEC. 11. The persons appointed to take the census, and their asssistants, shall severally take and subscribe an oath or affirmation before some person authorized by law to administer oaths, previous to entering upon the discharge of the duties imposed by this act, that they will well and truly cause to be made a just enumeration of all the inhabitants resident within their county, and a true return thereof make in pursuauce of the provisions of this act, which oath or oaths shall be returned with the census as hereinafter provided, to the secretary of this territory. Return to whom made. Census how taken. SEC. 12. The said enumeration shall be made by an actual enquiry by the persons taking the census at every dwelling, or by personal enquiry of the head of every family in their respective counties; and shall commence the first day of March next, and shall be closed and completed in twenty days thereafter, and shall embrace the several families by the name of the head thereof, and the aggregate population in the several counties. where made. SEC. 13. The several persons appointed in pursuance of Returns the provisions of this act to take the census in their respective counties, shall transmit one of said copies to the secretary of the territory, and deliver the other to the register of deeds of Iowa county, and the said register shall preserve the same on file in his office, subject to the inspection of all per sons. SEC. 14. The persons appointed to take said census and Compensa shals. their associates, shall receive, from the treasurer of Iowa tion of marcounty, for the service to be performed in taking such census, at the rate of one dollar and fifty cents for every one hundred persons enumerated by them respectively, and they shall be allowed the sum of five dollars for making the abstract, or copies required. cords to be SEC. 15. The register of deeds of the county of La Fayette shall have the privilege of transcribing, from the records of Certain reIowa county, free from charge, any record of conveyance of transcribed. land, or personal property, or any charge or mortgage concerning the same, lying and being in the county of La Fayette, and the same to record in his own office, and such record shall be as good evidence in all courts as the original records of Iowa county can be. Commission SEC. 16. To provide for the division of the property and effects of Iowa county, John W. Blackstone, and Robert C. ers to praise Hoard, of said county, be, and they are hereby appointed and divide certain propcommissioners, with a third person, whom they shall select, erty. to appraise the value of said property and effects, for which purpose the said commissioners shall meet, on or before the first Monday of June next ensuing the passage of this act, and after being sworn by an officer authorized by law to administer oaths, to make a fair and true appraisal of said property and effects, and file the said appraisement, or amount of valuation agreed upon by them for said property and effects, with the clerk of the board of county commissioners of each of the counties of La Fayette and Iowa, after the appraisal Property of said property and effects, by the said commissioners, it when sold. shall by them be offered for sale at public auction, in the town of Mineral Point, within sixty days after the said ap Proviso. : praisement is made, and sold to the person making the highest bid Provided such bid be not less than two-thirds of such appraised value, and the proceeds of said sale shall be by the said commissioners divided between the said counties of La Fayette and Iowa, according to the ratio of dividing the debts and liabilities of Iowa county, as provided in section nine of this act. And the said property and effects, if not sold by said commissioners, according to the provision herein before contained, then the said commissioners, or their successors in office, shall rent said property and effects, for public or private use, for such sum as they shall deem proper, until said property and effects shall be sold by said commissioners, for the said two-thirds of said valuation, or otherwise disposed of by the county commissioners of La Fayette and Iowa counties, and the proceeds of, or rent so acquired by the said first mentioned commissioners, shall be divided between the counties of La Fayette and Iowa, in the same proportion as provided for the division of the proceeds of the sale of said property and effects. SEC. 17. The county commissioners of the counties of La Fayette and Iowa shall insert in one of the newspapers published at Galena, Illinois, and in one of the newspapers published at Madison, in this territory, a notice to the creditors of Iowa county, requiring said creditors to present their several claims against said Iowa county, to the board of county Concerning commissioners of said county, or file the same with the clerk claims against Iowa county. of the board of county commissioners for said county, on or before the first Monday of December next ensuing the passage of this act, and all persons refusing, or failing to present or file their several claims as aforesaid, shall be, and are hereby forever barred. The said notice shall be published once a week, for six months, in each of the said newspapers, previous to the said first Monday of December next. Tax deeds by ted. SEC. 18. The clerk of the board of county commissionwhom execu- ers for Iowa county shall execute in all cases required by law, title deeds on all lands sold for taxes, lying and situate in said county of La Fayette, before the said first day of May next, and he is hereby authorized to receive redemption money for lands so sold, and issue certificates therefor. cords. SEC. 19. Any and all records of Iowa county, relating to Access to reperson's or property in La Fayette county, shall be free of access to, and shall be free of charge to the proper officer of La Fayette county, to transcribe. tive district. SEC. 20. That until otherwise provided by law, the coun- Representaties of Iowa, La Fayette, and Highland, shall continue to be represented in the legislative assembly as at present, and be - entitled to one member of the council, and three members of the house of representatives. SEC. 21. All acts, or parts of acts, which in any way con-flict, in whole, or in part, with this act, be and are hereby repealed. WILLIAM SHEW, Speaker of the House of Representatives. MASON C. DARLING, APPROVED February 4, 1847. HENRY DODGE. President of the Council. AN ACT Granting to Alexander D. Ramsey and Orris Be it enacted by the Council and House of Representatives of the Terratory of Wisconsin: SECTION 1. That Alexander D. Ramsey and Orris McCartney, their heirs, executors, and administrators, or assigns, shall have the exclusive right and privilege for the |