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under the laws of this state for the purpose of constructing and operating canals for irrigating, or water-power purposes, or both, may acquire right of way over or upon any lands for the necessary construction of such canal, including dams, reservoirs, and all necessary adjuncts to said canal, in the same manner as railroad corporations may now acquire right of way for the construction of railroads, and the provisions of law applicable to acquiring right of way by railroad corporations are hereby declared to be applicable to corporations for the construction of canals for irrigation or water-power purposes, or both. [1877 § 1, 168.]

SEC. 159. [Works of internal improvement.]-Canals constructed for irrigating or water-power purposes, or both, are hereby declared to be works of internal improvement, and all laws applicable to works of internal improvement are hereby declared to be applicable to such canals. [Id. § 2.]

UNIVERSITIES.

SEC. 160. [How incorporated.]-Whenever any person or persons shall have become possessed of funds, securities and property of the value of one hundred thousand dollars or more, for the purpose of an institution of learning of the rank and grade of a college or university, it shall be competent for him or them to present to the judge of the district court of the county in which such institution is, or is proposed to be situated, a petition setting forth the fact, and such circumstances as may be pertinent, praying the appointment of one or more commissioners to examine into the truth thereof; and thereupon it shall be the duty of the said judge to appoint a commissioner or commissioners for the purpose aforesaid. The person or persons so appointed shall be, by said judge, sworn to full inquiry and true report make of the matters given to him or them in charge, and the said oath, duly subscribed by the parties and certified by the said judge, shall be filed in the office of the clerk of said county. The said commissioner or commissioners shall thereupon personally examine the property, funds and securities alleged to be set apart for the purpose aforesaid, and shall appraise the same and report the facts thus ascertained to the said judge. If, from the said report, it shall appear to the said judge that the sum of one hundred thousand dollars in property, funds, and securities of that value have been set apart for the purpose aforesaid, so as to be irrevocably and inviolably appropriate thereto, the said judge shall indorse the said report with an order approving the same, and directing that the same be filed in the office of the said county clerk, together with the petition aforesaid, and other papers presented to him in the same matter, which petition, report, order, and papers, shall be recorded by the said clerk in the book of incorporations to be kept in his office. [1879 § 1, 189.]

SEC. 161. [Trustees.]-Whereupon, the person or persons possessed of the said funds, securities, and properties, may, under his or their hands, appoint five or more persons to be trustees of the said institution who shall thereupon become a body politic and corporate under a name and style to be named, designated, and appointed for the purpose by the aforesaid person or persons in the said writing appointing the said trustees, which paper writing of appointment shall be filed and recorded in the book of incorporations in the office of the said county clerk, and the said trustees, under the name and style so named, designated, and appointed, may sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded in all courts of law and equity; have a common seal, and the same alter, break, and renew at pleasure, and hold all kinds of estate, real and personal, and mixed, which they may acquire by purchase, donation, devise, or otherwise necessary to accomplish the purpose of the corporation, and the same to dispose of and convey at pleasure. And a certified copy of the said paper writing, appointing said trustees, and naming, designating and appointing the name and style of such corporation, shall be

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SEC. 158. "An act to enable corporations formed for the construction and operation of canals for irrigation and other purposes, to acquire right of way, and to declare such canals works of internal improvement." 1877, 168. Took effect June 1, 1877.

SEC. 160-2. "An act to provide for the incorporation of universities under certain circumstances," Laws 1879, 189. Took effect June 1, 1879.

prima facie evidence in all courts and before all officers, boards, commissioners and tribunals of the due incorporation of such body politic and corporate. [Id. § 2.]

SEC. 162. [Powers of trustees.]-The said board of trustees shall have power to fill all vacancies in their number, to make rules, regulations and by-laws for the government of their board and of the institution; to appoint a president, professors, tutors, and teachers, and any other necessary officers and agents, and fix the compensation of each; to erect within, and as departments of said institution, such schools and colleges of the arts and sciences and professions as to them may seem proper, and to confer such academic degrees and honors as are conferred by colleges and universities of the United States. [Id. § 3.]

CORPORATIONS FORMED BY SPECIAL ACTS.

SEC. 163. [Reorganization.]-The Nebraska university, an incorporation formed under a special act of the legislature of the territory of Nebraska, approved, July 25, 1858, and amended by an act approved, October 25, 1858, and all other incorporations formed under the special acts of the legislature of the territory of Nebraska, previous to the approval of the general incorporation law, may be and are hereby empowered through their trustees, to reorganize under the general incorporation law of this state. [1871 § 1, 106.]

SEC. 164. [Power of trustees.]-The trustees of any incorporation reorganized according to section one of this act, shall be, and are hereby empowered to act as successors of such former trustees, and to have and to hold, and to take legal possession of all franchises, rights, privileges and estates, of said special incorporation against all persons whatsoever, and for the interest and purposes of the original incorporation, and for no other purposes whatever. [Id. § 2.]

MASONS, ODD FELLOWS AND GOOD TEMPLARS.

SEC. 165. [Incorporation.1-That all organizations known as the subordinate lodges of the order of Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, and all organizations known as subordinate lodges of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and also, all orders known as Good Templars Lodges, which have been or may hereafter be regularly chartered by the respective grand lodges of the said several orders in the state of Nebraska, be and they are hereby incorporated, and shall be hereafter entitled to all the privileges incident to bodies corporate, so long as they retain their respective organizations and charters aforesaid. [1869 § 1, 64.]

SEC. 166. [Title and powers.]-All such subordinate lodges of Masons, Odd Fellows, and Good Templars, shall be known by the name and title designated in their several respective charters, as issued by the said grand lodges, by which name they shall be capable of suing and being sued, pleading and being impleaded in the several courts of this state the same as natural persons, and shall have power to hold and convey real estate and personal property, and do any and all other things usually done by corporations. [Id. § 2.]

CHAPTER 17.-COUNTIES, COUNTY BOUNDARIES AND COUNTY SEATS.

ARTICLE I.-BOUNDARIES."

SECTION 1. That the counties hereinafter named shall be bounded by boundary lines as set forth in this act. [G. S. § 1. 212.]

SEC. 2. [Adams.]-The county of Adams is bounded as follows: Commenc

SEC. 163-4. "An act to provide for the reorganizing under the general law of incorporations, of all incorporations heretofore formed under special acts." Laws 1871, 106. Took effect Mar. 17, 1871.

SEC. 165-6. "An act incorporating subordinate lodges of Masons, Odd Fellows and Good Templars." Laws 1869, 64. Took effect Feb. 9, 1869.

*NOTE.-ART. I. "An act defining the boundaries of certain counties." G. S. 212. Took effect Mar. 3, 1873. Secs. 12-13 of "An act to correct clerical errors in and to amend an act entitled 'An act defining the boundaries of certain counties' " [Gen. Stat. 225, 226,] are re-enacted by act of 1879, p. 353, secs. 2 and 3, chap. 18, p. 175. NOTE, also, that at the 10th session of the legislature called to correct errors in the county boundaries act of the 9th session, two acts were passed for the purposes set forth in their titles which were: 1. "An act to extend the time for making assessments in newly organized counties, and in portions of the state affected by changes in county boundaries by an act entitled 'An act defining the boundaries of certain counties.' Approved March 3, 1873. 2. "An act to make valid and legalize the acts of public officers acting in good faith, and to prevent the failure of justice, or the abatement of actions commenced, owing to any change in county boundaries by an act entitled 'An act defining the boundaries of certain counties,' approved March 3, 1873." These acts [Gen. Stat. 226, 227] are omitted from this volume.

ing at the southwest corner of township five, north, of range twelve, west; thence east to the southeast corner of township five, north, of range nine, west; thence north to the northeast corner of township eight, north, of range nine, west; thence west to the northwest corner of township eight, north, of range twelve, west; thence south to the place of beginning. [Id. § 2.]

SEC. 3. [Antelope.]-The county of Antelope is bounded as follows: Commencing at the southwest corner of township twenty-three, north, of range eight, west; thence east to the southeast corner of township twenty-three, north, of range five, west; thence north to the north east corner of township twenty-eight, north, of range five, west; thence west to the northwest corner of township twenty-eight, north, of range eight, west; thence south to the place of beginning. [Id. § 3.]

SEC. 4. [Boone.]-The county of Boone is bounded as follows: Commencing at the southwest corner of township eighteen, north, of range eight, west; thence east along the northern boundary of the Pawnee reservation, to a point where the dividing line between ranges four and five, west, intersect the same; thence north to the northeast corner of township twenty-two, north, of range five, west; thence west to the northwest corner of township twenty-two, north, of range eight, west; thence south to the place of beginning. [Id. § 4.]

SEC. 5. [Burt.j-The territory bounded as follows: Commencing at the state boundary at the southeast corner of the Omaha Indian reservation, thence northwestwardly along said state boundary to the center line of town twenty-five, north; thence due west to the line dividing ranges seven and eight, east; thence south by said line to the south line of township twenty-one, north, of range eight, east; thence east by said line to the northwest corner of section six, in township twenty, north, of range nine, east; thence south by section lines, one mile east of the guide meridian to the southwest corner of section twenty, in township twenty, north, of range nine, east; thence east by section lines to the state boundary; thence northwardly up said boundary to the place of beginning, shall constitute the county of Burt. [Amended 1879, 77.]

SEC. 6. [Butler.]-The county of Butler is bounded as follows: Commencing at the southeast corner of township thirteen north, of range four, east; thence north to the south bank of the main channel of Platte river, thence along the south bank of the main channel of the Platte river to the northwest corner of township sixteen, north, of range one, east; thence south to the southwest corner of township thirteen north, of range one, east; thence east to the place of beginning. [1875, 70. Amended 1879, 109.]

SEC. 7. [Buffalo.-The county of Buffalo is bounded as follows: Commencing at a point where the dividing line between ranges twelve and thirteen crosses the southern channel of the Platte river; thence up said channel to a point where the dividing line between ranges eighteen and nineteen intersect the same; thence north along said line to the third standard parallel; thence east along said parallel to the northeast corner of township twelve, north, of range thirteen, west; thence south to the place of beginning. [G. S. § 7, 213.]

SEC. 8. [Cass.-The county of Cass is bounded as follows: Commencing at the southwest corner of township ten, north, of range nine, east; thence east to the middle of the main channel of the Missouri river; thence up said channel until it intersects the Platte river; thence up said Platte river until it intersects the line dividing townships twelve and thirteen, north, the last time; thence west to the northwest corner of township twelve, north, of range ten, east; thence south two miles; thence west six miles; thence south to the place of beginning. [Id. § 8.]

SEC. 9. [Cedar.]-The county of Cedar is bounded as follows: Commencing at a point in the middle of the main channel of the Missouri river, at which the line dividing ranges one and two, west, crosses said river; thence south to the southwest corner of township twenty-nine, north, of range one, west; thence east to the southeast corner of township twenty-nine, north, of range one, west; thence south to the southeast corner of township twenty-eight, north, of range one, west; thence east to the southeast corner of township twenty-eight, north, of range

three, east; thence north to the middle of the main channel of the Missouri river; thence up said channel to the place of beginning. [Amended 1875, 73.]

SEC. 10. [Chase.]-That the following portion of the state of Nebraska, commencing at a point where the first standard parallel intersects the west boundary line of the state of Nebraska; thence east to the southeast corner of township five, north, of range thirty-six; thence north to the northeast corner of township eight, north, of range thirty-six; thence west to the west boundary line of the state of Nebraska; thence south to the place of beginning, shall hereafter be known as the county of Chase. [G. S. § 5, 225.]

SEC. 11. [Cheyenne.-The county of Cheyenne is bounded as follows: Commencing at a point formed by the intersection of the forty-first degree of north latitude with the twenty-seventh degree of longitude west from Washington; thence north along said twenty-seventh degree of west longitude to a point formed by its intersection with the forty-second degree of north latitude; thence east along said forty-second degree of north latitude to a point formed by the intersection with the twenty-fifth degree of longitude west from Washington; thence south to the northeast corner of Colorado territory; thence west to the place of beginning. [G. S. § 10, 214.] SEC. 12. [Clay.]-The county of Clay is bounded as follows: Commencing at the southwest corner of township five, north, of range eight, west; thence east to the southeast corner of township five, north, of range five, west; thence north to the north corner of township eight, north, of range five, west; thence west to the northwest corner of township eight, north, of range eight, west; thence south to the place of beginning. [Id. § 11.]

SEC. 13. [Colfax.]-The county of Colfax is bounded as follows: Commencing at a point where the dividing line between ranges one and two, east, intersects the south bank of the Platte river; thence along said south bank to a point where the dividing line between ranges four and five, east, intersects the same; thence north to the northeast corner of township twenty, north, of range four, east; thence west to the northwest corner of township twenty, north, of range two, east; thence south to the place of beginning. [Id. § 12.]

SEC. 14. [Cuming.]-The county of Cuming is bounded as follows: Commencing at the southwest corner of township twenty-one, north, of range four, east; thence east to the southeast corner of township twenty-one, north, or [of] range seven, east; thence north to the northeast corner of township twenty-four, north, of range seven, east; thence west to the northwest corner of township twenty-four, north, or [of] range four, east; thence south to the place of beginning. [Id. § 13.] SEC. 15. [Custer.]-That all of that portion of the state of Nebraska commencing at the southeast corner of township thirteen (13), north, of range seventeen (17), west of the sixth principal meridian, thence north to the northeast corner of township twenty, north, of range seventeen (17), west; thence west to the northwest corner of township twenty (20), north, of range twenty-five (25), west; thence south to the southwest corner of township thirteen (13), north, of range twenty-five (25), west; thence east to place of beginning, be and the same shall constitute the county of Custer. [1877 § 1, 211.]

SEC. 16. [Dakota.-The territory bounded as follows: Commencing at the most westerly point where the township line between townships twenty-nine and thirty, north, intersects the state boundary; thence west along said line to the northwest corner of section three in township twenty-nine, north, of range six, east; thence south by section lines to the north line of the Omaha reservation; thence east along said line to the state boundary; thence northwardly by said boundary to the place of beginning, shall be and constitute the county of Dakota. [G. S. $ 14, 214.]

SEC. 17. [Same-Indian reservation.]-That all that portion of the Winnebago and Omaha reservations not embraced in the counties of Cuming and

SEC. 17. "An act to attach a portion of what is known as the Winnebago and Omaha reservations, in the state of Nebraska, to the county of Dakota for election, judicial and revenue purposes.” Laws 1879, 18 Took effect Feb. 27, 1879.

Burt, be and the same is hereby attached to the county of Dakota for election, judicial, and revenue purposes. [1879 § 1, 180.]

SEC. 18. [Dawson.-The county of Dawson is bounded as follows: Commencing at the southwest corner of township nine, north, of range twenty-five, west; thence east to the center of the south channel of the Platte river; thence down said channel to a point where the dividing line between ranges eighteen and nineteen intersects the same; thence north along said dividing line to the northeast corner of township twelve, north, of range nineteen, west; thence west to the northwest corner of township twelve, north, of range twenty-five, west; thence south to the place of beginning. [G. S. § 15, 215.]

SEC. 19. [Dixon.]-The county of Dixon is bounded as follows: Commencing at the southwest corner of township twenty-seven, north, of range four, east; thence east to the line dividing sections thirty-three and thirty-four in township twenty-seven, north, of range six, east; thence north to the dividing line between townships twenty-nine and thirty, north, of range six, east; thence east to the middle of the main channel of the Missouri river; thence up said channel to a point where the dividing line between ranges three and four, east, intersects the same; thence south to the place of beginning. [Id. § 16.]

SEC. 20. [Dodge.]-The territory bounded as follows: Commencing at the intersection of the line dividing ranges 4 and 5 east with the south bank of Platte river; thence easterly along the south bank of the Platte river to the fourth standard parallel; thence east along said parallel to the southeast corner of section thirty-one (31), township seventeen (17), north, range ten (10), east; thence north on section lines three miles, to the northeast corner of section nineteen (19), township seventeen (17), north, of range ten (10), east; thence west on section lines two miles to southwest corner of section thirteen (13), township 17, range 9, east; thence north on section lines, one mile to northwest corner of section 13, last aforesaid; thence west on section line one mile to southwest corner of section eleven (11), township 17, N. R. 9, east; thence north on section lines one mile to northwest corner of said section eleven (11), last aforesaid; thence west on section lines one mile to the southwest corner of section three, T. 17, R. 9, E.; thence north on section lines one mile to the northwest corner of said section 3; thence west on section line one mile to northwest corner of section 4, township seventeen, range 9, east; thence north on section line one mile to northeast corner of section thirty-two (32), township 18, R. 9, E.; thence west one-half mile on section line to northwest corner of the northeast quarter of section thirty-two, township 18, R. 9, E.; thence north on half section line two miles to the southeast corner of the southwest quarter of section seventeen, township 18, R. 9, E.; thence west on section line one-half mile to southwest corner of section seventeen, township 18, R. 9, E.; thence north on section lines fifteen miles to northeast corner of section six, township 20, R. 9, E.; thence west along the fifth standard parallel to the northwest corner of township twenty, north, of range five, east ; thence south by the line dividing ranges four and five, east, to the place of beginning, shall be and constitute the county of Dodge. [G. S. § 17, 215. Amended 1875, 71.1

SEC. 21. [Douglas.]-The county of Douglas is bounded as follows: Commencing at a point in the middle of the main channel of the Missouri river, two miles south of the dividing line between townships fourteen and fifteen, north; thence up said main channel to a point where the fourth standard parallel intersects the same; thence west to a point in the middle of the main channel of the Platte river; thence down said channel to a point two miles due south of the dividing line between townships fourteen and fifteen; thence east to the place of beginning. [G. S. § 18, 215.]

SEC. 22. [Dundy.]-That the following portion of the state of Nebraska, commencing at the southwest corner of said state; thence east to the southeast corner of township one, north, of range thirty-six; thence north to the northeast corner of township four, north, of range thirty-six; thence west to the west boun[dary] line of the state of Nebraska; thence south to the place of beginning, shall hereafter be known as the county of Dundy. [G. S. § 4, 225.]

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