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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 5 STAT. · June 17, 1844 · Chapter XCVII

Chapter XCVII. respecting the northern boundary of the State of Missouri

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Chap. XCVII.— An Act respecting the northern boundary of the State of Missouri.June 17, 1844. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That there shall be Commissioners to be appointed to run the boundary line between Iowa and Missouri. appointed by the Governor of Iowa Territory, by and with the advice and consent of the Council of said Territory, a commissioner, to act in conjunction with such commissioner as may be appointed by the State of Missouri, and such third person, not a citizen of the State of Missouri or Territory of Iowa, as may be designated by the two commissioners aforesaid; the duty of which said three persons it shall be, to ascertain, survey, and mark out the northern boundary line of the State of Missouri, and to cause plats of the said line, when so ascertained, surveyed, and marked out, to be returned to the offices of the Secretary of State of the United States, of the State of Missouri, and of the Territory of Iowa, which plats shall be accompanied by reports of their proceedings in the premises.
Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* That said three commissioners, or Commissioners to appoint a surveyor. a majority of them, shall have authority to appoint a surveyor, and engage the necessary assistants and laborers, to enable them to ascertain, survey, and mark the said line; and the compensation of said commissioners, and of the surveyor employed by them, shall be at the rate of eight dollars per day, for so many days as they may necessarily be employed about the business aforesaid; and the laborers and assistants shall Compensation limited. be paid such compensation as may be agreed upon between each of them and the commissioners, or a majority of them, not to exceed two dollars per day.
Sec. 3. *And be it further enacted,* That the report, as aforesaid, of Report of majority of commissioners fixing the boundary line, to be final. any two of said commissioners, shall be final and conclusive, and the line so ascertained, surveyed, marked out and returned as aforesaid, by any two of said commissioners, shall be the northern boundary line of the State of Missouri. Sec. 4. *And be it further enacted,* That this act shall not go into Act, when to take effect. force until the Legislature of the State of Missouri shall have assented to the same, and agreed to abide by the award of said commissioners, or any two of them, as final and conclusive; and the sum of four thousand Appropriation. dollars is hereby appropriated, out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to carry into effect the provisions of this act.
Approved, June 17, 1844.
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