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CHAPTER 120.
COUNTIES.
CuAr. 95, 128, 162, 220, 225, 226, 228, 229, 230, 231, 232, 233, 263, 265, 267, 268, 269, 974,
275, 276, 303, 305, 340, 34j, 347, 352, 355, :90, 419.
AN ACT supplementary to an act establishing counties and county lines.*
*
1 O der of court for ascertaining lines. 4 Non-attendance of one of the surveyors, the
2 How that order shall be executed. other to proceed--expensers how borne.
3 Settlement of expenses.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Territory of inssouri, [as follows:]
1. Whenever it shall appear to the satisfaction of the court of common pleas, or
of the county court, of any county now established, or hereafter to be established,
that the boundary line or lines of their county are not sufficiently special and well
ascertained; it is hereby made the duty of the said court of common pleas or coun-
ty court that may be hereafter established as aforesaid, t, issue an order to any
person they shall select as county surveyor, requiring 1. on a certain day by
them to be fixed on and mentioned in their said order, to ascertain, survey and mark
such line or lines, designating in such order, from what point to what point. And
it shall also be the duty of the said court, making the order aforesaid, to give notice
thereof at least ten days prior to running and marking said line or lines to the
court of the county adjacent, whereupon the court receiving such notice shall issue
an order to any person they may select as their surveyor, ordering him to proceed
with the surveyor of the other county to survey and mark such line or lines as may
be designated in said order.
!2. The persons so as aforesaid selected as surveyor shall, on the reception of
such order from their respective courts, proceed, on the day mentioned in said order
to ascertain, mark and survey such line or lines, and if they shall not be able to
finish the same in one day, to continue from day to day (Sundays excepted) until
the work shall be finished. They shall each make out a return of such line or
lines, so as aforesaid surveyed, to their respective courts at their next succeeding
term, which, if approved by the court, shall he recorded by the clerk as evidence of
said line or lines.
3. The said surveyor shall respectively make out their accounts of expenses for
surveying and marking said line or lines, and if allowed by the courts, shall be equal-
ly borne by said counties, and paid out of their respective levies or treasuries.
4. In case either person shall not attend as surveyor for the purpose of survey-
ing and marking said line or lines, it shall and may be lawful for the person attend-
ing on the part of oither county or court to proceed alone to survey and mark said
line or lines as herein before provided. And the surveyor so making the survey shall
make two copies ori plats of the line or lines thus run, and return one copy to each
of the courts, which being approved of as aforesaid, shall be recordcd, and be the
Contiuued in force. R. L. 1825, p. 260, and 4'16, ace. 1.
1815-CuT. 120]
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