TERRITORIAL ROADS. AN ACT To Locate and Establish a Territorial Road from Dakota City to the Elkhorn River at or near West Point. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Council and House of Representatives of the Territory of Nebraska, That Henry Ream, John F. Deborde and Samuel Parks, be, and are hereby appointed commissioners to locate and establish a territorial road from Dakota City westwardly to the Elkhorn river, at or near West Point. SEC. 2. The said commissioners, or any two of them, shall meet at Dakota City, on the first Monday in May, A. D. 1864, or within three months from that date, and proceed to lay out and establish said road according to the provisions of this act. SEC. 3. Said commissioners shall have power to employ one competent surveyor, a necessary number of assistants and teams, and to incur whatever other expenses may be necessary for the location and establishment of said road. SEC. 4. Said commissioners shall make a report of their doings, and furnish a map of said road to the county clerks of the different counties through which it may pass, to be filed in the offices of such clerks, within thirty days after locating said road. SEC. 5. That the expense of locating and establishing said road, shall be paid by the organized counties through which it may pass, in proportion to their population, as returned by the United States marshal in the last census. SEC. 6. Said commissioners shall receive three dollars per day, the surveyor four dollars per day, and the assistants two dollars per day for each day actually employed in locating said road. SEC. 7. This act to take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved January 25, 1864. AN ACT To Locate a Territorial Road through the County of Polk. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Council and House of Representatives of the Territory of Nebraska, That Joseph Gardner, of Polk county, be, and he is hereby appointed a commissioner to survey and locate a territorial road through the county of Polk, in this Territory, beginning at a point where the military road crosses the fourth standard parallel, thence on the most direct and practicable route, to a point known as the Eagle Island stage station, in the county of Merrick, Nebraska. SEC. 2. It shall be the duty of such commissioner, on or before the first day of May, 1864, accompanied by a competent surveyor and such other assistants as he may deem necessary for that purpose, to proceed to locate said road. SEC. 3. Within sixty days after the completion of the survey and location of said road, said commissioner shall file a plat of the same with the county clerk of the county of Platte, and the said road shall be deemed permanently located from and after the filing of the plat aforesaid, and after the same shall have been plainly staked and marked. SEC. 4. Said commissioner shall receive three dollars per day, said surveyor four dollars per day, and their assistants two dollars per day each, for every day actually engaged in such work. SEC. 5. The expense of such location shall be borne in equal proportion by the counties through which the same may pass. SEC. 6. Said commissioner and surveyor shall take an oath to faithfully discharge their duties, before entering upon the performance of their work. SEC. 7. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and approval. Approved February 10, 1864. AN ACT To Legalize the Location of a Territorial Road from Decatur to Columbus. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Council and House of Representatives of the Territory of Nebraska, That the location and establishment of a county road, made by virtue of an act entitled "An act to locate a |