§ 4. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved January 11th, 1860. AN ACT To authorize J. Osterling to erect and keep a mill dam across Wyoming creek in L'eau-qui-Court county. SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Council and House of Representatives of the Territory of Nebraska, That J. Osterling be, and he is hereby authorized to erect and constantly to keep a mill dam across Wyoming creek in L'eau-qui-Court county, at any place within one mile from the confluence of said creek with the Missouri river. § 2. The said J. Osterling, his heirs and assigns, shall have the perpetual right to keep a dam on said creek, within the limits described in section one of this act, for the purpose of propelling mills or any other machinery that Osterling, or his heirs or assigns may want to erect: "Provided, the erection of said mill dam shall in no way injure or overflow the estate or property of other persons. § 3. This act to be in full force from and after its passage. Approved January 13th, 1860. AN ACT To authorize J. J. Eldridge, to erect a mill dam across Wood river in Hall county, N. T. SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Council and House of Representatives of the Territory of Nebraska, That Jasper J. Eldridge, his heirs and assigns, are hereby authorized to erect and constantly keep a mill dam across Wood river, on the claim owned by the said J. J. Eldridge, being situated in the county of Hall, Nebraska territory. § 2. The said Jasper J. Eldridge, his heirs and assigns, shall have perpetual right to keep a dam across said stream at the point designated in section one of this act, to the height of twelve feet above low water mark: Provided the said J. J. Eldridge, shall erect and keep a mill dam at said point. § 3. No person shall be allowed by law to build or erect any dam at or below the point designated in this act, so as to interfere with the right herein granted to said J. J. Eldridge, his heirs and assigns. § 4. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved January 13th, 1860. AN ACT To authorize Alexander Hallam to erect and keep a mill dam across Rock creek, in the county of Nemaha. SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Council and House of Representatives of the Territory of Nebraska, That Alexander Hallam be and is hereby authorized to erect and constantly keep a mill dam across Rock creek at the town of Glen Rock, in the county of Nemaha, at or near the place where the mill and dam is erected at this time. § 2. That Alexander Hallam, his heirs and assigns, shall have the perpetual right to keep a dam on said creek at the point designated in section one of this act, to the height of ten feet above low water mark, so as to propel mills or any other machinery that said Hallam, or his heirs or assigns may want to erect: Provided that said privilege shall not be construed in any way to interfere with the rights of other parties, without paying all damages caused by reason of such dam. § 3. No person shall be allowed by law to build or erect any dam below the point designated in this so as to interfere with rights granted in this act to Alexander Hallam, his heirs and assigns. § 4. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved January 13th, 1860. AN ACT To authorize George E. McKinsey and Benjamin F. Lenard, to erect and keep a mill dam across the Great Pappillion creek, in Douglas county, N. T. SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Council and House of Representatives of the Territory of Nebraska, That George E. McKinsey, B. F. Lenard be and are hereby authorized to erect and constantly keep a mill dam across the Great Pappillion creek on the southeast quarter of section (2) two, township number (14) fourteen, N, range number (12) twelve in Douglas county, N. T. § 2. The said George E. McKinsey and B. F. Lenard their heirs and assigns, shall have perpetual right to keep a dam on said creek at the point designated in section one of this act, to the height of fifteen feet above low water mark, so as to propel mills or any other machinery that said McKinsey and B. F. Lenard their heirs and or assigns may want to erect. § 3. No person shall be allowed by law to build or erect any dam below the point designated in this act so as to interfere with the rights granted in this act to said McKinsey and B. F. Lenard, their heirs and assigns. § 4. This act shall be in force from and after its passage. Approved January 13th, 1860. MEMORIALS AND JOINT RESOLUTIONS. MEMORIAL AND JOINT RESOLUTION Relative to school lands in the Indian reservation, in Richardson county. Be it resolved by the Council and House of Representatives of the Territory of Nebraska, That our delegate in congress be requested to use his influence in procuring the passage in accordance with the prayer contained in the following memorial: To the Honorable the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled: Your memorialists, the legislative assembly of the territory of Nebraska, respectively represent to your honorable body that in consequence of the provisions of the treaty made with certain tribes of Indians at Prairie-du-Chien in 1830, and also in consequence of the Sac and Fox reservation, the people of Richardson and Nemaha counties, Nebraska territory, are deprived of a large portion of valuable school lands which would, save for the reservation above mentioned, have been set apart for educational purposes, under the provisions of the organic act of this territory. Your memorialists therefore pray that your honorable body may appoint commissioners to select lands in lieu thereof in said county, equal in amount to the number of acres that would have been reserved for school purposes, had the Indian title been fully extinguished. And your memorialists will ever pray, etc. Approved December 22d, 1859. JOINT MEMORIAL AND RESOLUTION. To the Honorable Secretary of the Interior: Your memorialists, the legislative assembly of the territory of Nebraska would most respectfully represent that for two years past the |