CHAPTER XLIV. An Act to define the boundary line of Pope County February 28,1966 and to provide for its organization. SECTION 1. Establishes the boundary line of Pope County. 2. Locates the county seat. 3. When act to take effect. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Minnesota: SECTION 1. The boundary line of Pope county is Boundary of Pope hereby established, and shall hereafter be as follows: county. Beginning at the north-east corner of township one hundred and twenty six (126) north, of range thirtysix (36) west of fifth principal meridian, thence west to the north-west corner of township one hundred and twenty-six (126) north, of range forty (40) west; thence south to the south-west corner of township one hundred and twenty-three (123) north, of range forty (40) west; thence east to the south-east corner of township one hundred and twenty-three (123) north, of range thirty-six (36) west; thence north to the place of beginning. SEC. 2. The county of Pope is hereby declared an Temporarily loorganized county, and the county seat thereof tempo- cates county seat rarily located at the town of Stockholm, situated upon the north half of the south-east quarter of section No. eighteen (18), in township one hundred and twentythree (123) north, of range thirty-seven (37) west. SEC. 3. passage. This act shall be in force from and after its Approved February 28, 1866. March 1, 1866. Changes name of county. CHAPTER XLV. An Act to change the name of Rock County to Lincoln SECTION 1, Changes name of county. 4. When Act to take effect. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Minnesota: SECTION 1. The name of the county of Rock is hereby changed to that of Lincoln county. SEC. 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after the time when the county now forming the county of Lincoln shall become attached to and part of other counties. Approved March 1, 1866. February 28,1866 CHAPTER XLVI. An Act to establish the County of Beltrami. SECTION 1. Defines the boundaries of the county of Beltrami. 2. Repeals all acts conflicting. 3. When Act to take effect. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Minnesota: SECTION 1 That so much territory as is comprised within the following described limits, coincident with the lines of the U. S. land surveys when run and marked, be, and the same is hereby established as the county of Beltrami : Beginning at the point where the line between Boundary of Balranges thirty-eight (38) and thirty-nine (39), inter- trami county. sects the line between townships one hundred and forty-two (142) and one hundred and forty-three (143); thence northwardly on said range to the northwest corner of township one hundred and fifty-four (154), range thirty-eight (38); thence eastwardly on the line between townships one hundred and fiftyfour (154) and one hundred and fifty-five (155) to the line between ranges twenty-nine (29) and thirty (30), or to the nearest range line east of the mouth of Turtle river; thence southwardly on said range line to the centre of the main channel of the Mississippi river; thence up the centre of the main channel of said river to its intersection with the line between townships one hundred and forty-two (142) and one hundred and forty-three, (143); thence westwardly along said township line to the place of beginning. SEC. 2. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with Repeals inconthis act are hereby repealed. SEC. 3. passage. This act shall take effect from and after its Approved February 28, 1866. sistent acts. March 1, 1866. Boundary line of McPhaill county. CHAPTER XLVII. An Act to define the boundary lines of McPhaill county and attach the same to Redwood county for judicial purposes. SECTION 1. Establishes boundary lines of McPhaill county. 2. Duties of officers of the county of Redwood. 3. County officers to canvass votes within certain time: to make proclamation in newspaper. 4. When Act to take effect. 5. Repeals all acts conflicting with this act. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Minnesota: SECTION 1. The boundary line of McPhaill county is hereby established, and hereafter shall be as follows: Beginning at the intersection of the middle line of the Minnesota river and the range line between ranges thirty-nine and forty, thence in a northwesterly direction on the middle line of the main channel of the Minnesota river to the western boundary line of the State of Minnesota, thence in a southerly direction on the boundary line of the State, to the township line between township one hundred and eight and one hundred and nine, thence east on said line to the range line between ranges thirty-nine and forty, thence north on said line to the place of beginning. SEC 2. At the time of giving notice of the next County officers of general election, [it] shall be the duty of the officers of Redwood to give the county of Redwood, required by law to give notice notice of election of such election, to give notice in like manner, that at said election a vote will be taken on the question of changing the boundary lines of Redwood county in accordance with the provisions of this act. At said election the voters of said county of Redwood in favor of the change proposed by this act, shall have distinctly written or printed on their ballots, "for change of boundary lines of Redwood county," and those opposed to said change, "against change of boundary lines of Redwood county," and returns thereof shall be made. to the same officer by the judges of election of the several townships as votes for State officers. vassed within certain time. SEC 3. The county officers to whom the returns are made in said county, shall within twenty days after Votes to be cansaid election, canvass the votes returned for and against the change of boundary lines, and shall forthwith certify the result of such canvass to the Governor, who, if it appears that a majority of the votes in the said county of Redwood on the question of changing the boundary lines are in favor of such change, shall make proclamation thereof by causing to be published in a newspaper in said county of Redwood that the change proposed by this act has been ratified and adopted by the majority of the electors of said county. SEC. 4. The foregoing provisions of this act shall take effect and be in force from and after the ratifica- When provisions tion and adoption of the proposed change by a major- to go into effect. ity of the voters of Redwood county. SEC. 5. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with Repeals inconthis act are hereby repealed. Approved March 1, 1866. sistent acta. |