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county, and of the payment by county warrants or otherwise by the county commissioners of Douglas county of one half of the cost of the construction of said bridge or bridges to the persons therein named.

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SEC. 5. The said commissioners shall receive the same Compensation compensation for their services, and shall be paid therefor sioners. in the same manner as is provided in the said act, providing for the opening and location of said state road.

SEC. 6. That after the final completion of said bridge Bridge, how or bridges, they shall be maintained free of toll, and the maintained. cost of maintaining and keeping in repair, the same shall

be bound equally by the said counties of Douglas and Saunders.

SEC. 7. That section nine of the aforesaid act "To locate and open a state road from the city of Omaha in Douglas county, to intersect the Ashland and Fremont road, and to provide for the payment of the expense thereof, so far only as the same conflicts with the provisions of this act," be and the same is hereby repealed.

Acts repealed.

SEC. 8. This act shall take effect and be in force from To take effect. and after its passage.

Approved, February 25, 1875.

AN ACT

For the relief of persons having rights of action or demands upon the Nebraska Colonization Company,

Whereas, The Legislature of Nebraska Territory did, Preamble. A. D. 1855, pass an act for the incorporation of the Ne.braska Colonization Company, which company did organize under said act, and maintained a corporate existence

Proceedings in district court of

county.

for many years, and was finally dissolved by an act of the legislative assembly, approved, February 15, 1869; and,

Whereas, It is claimed by certain parties, that at its dissolution, said Nebraska Colonization Company had not conveyed to them the legal title to certain property, to which they are entitled;

Therefore,

Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Nebraska:

SECTION 1. That any person may file his complaint Washington in the district court of Washington county, Nebraska, showing his rights, claims, demands, or grievances, and said court shall thereupon have the authority to cite the last executive officer of said Nebraska Colonization Company before it, and to make such orders and decrees in reference to the matters in controversy thereto as shall seem to be demanded; or if the judge deem best, he may refer the matter to a special master or commissioner, to take the testimony and report the facts to the court, and thereupon such order or decree as the rights of the parties may require, may be rendered by the court.

To take effect.

SEC. 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Approved, February 25, 1875.

AN ACT

To form a new school district, to be called district number eightysix, Lancaster county, Nebraska.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Nebraska :

SECTION 1. That sections two, three, four, nine, ten,

in Lancaster

eleven, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, twenty-one, twenty-two, School district the north half of section twenty, and the northeast quar- county. ter of section seventeen, all lying in town ten, range seven, Lancaster county, be, and the same are hereby set apart and formed into a separate school district, to be known as school district number eighty-six, in Lancaster county.

district.

SEC. 2. That within ten days from the passage of this Organization of act, the county superintendent shall give notice in the usual form, to the inhabitants of said new district, and shall proceed to complete the organization of said district in the manner prescribed in the general school law: Provided, That the division of school district property, as provided for in sections seven, eight, and nine, in the general school law, shall not apply to this district.

SEC. 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from To take effect. and after its passsage.

Approved, February 19, 1875.

AN ACT

Granting to the city of Lincoln a certain block of lots in said city, for a market place.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Nebraska : SECTION 1. That there is hereby granted and donated to the city of Lincoln for public use, as a market square, all of block twenty-nine in said city, heretofore known as and called "The State Historical Society Block."

Market square in Lincoln.

Fundamental condition of the

SEC. 2. That it is a fundamental condition of this grant, that said block shall, forever, remain the public grant. property of said city, for the use of its citizens, for market

To take effect.

purposes, and shall never be sold or alienated by said city.

SEC. 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Approved, February 24, 1875.

Change of name of market

AN ACT

To change the name of market square in the city of Lincoln.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Nebraska :

SECTION 1. That block forty-three in the city of square, Lincoln Lincoln, heretofore called and known as market square, and sometimes as market space, in the city of Lincoln, shall hereafter be called and known as Union Square. Approved, February 25, 1875.

Ordinance exempting lots

56, Lincoln

declared legal.

AN ACT

Declaring a certain act of the city of Lincoln legal.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Nebraska:

SECTION 1. That a certain ordinance enacted by the 1, 2 and 3. block city council of the city of Lincoln, approved, July 17, from axation 1872, which is in the words and figures following, to-wit: "An ordinance exempting lots one, two and three in block number fifty-six, in the city of Lincoln, from city taxes, for the period of five years from July 13, 1872. Sec. 1. Be it ordained by the mayor and councilmen of the city

of Lincoln, that lots one, two and three in block fifty-six, are hereby exempt from city taxes from the thirteenth day of July, A. D. 1872, until the thirteenth day of July A. D. 1877: Provided, That H. Hallo, shall build, erect, or cause to be built, erected, or constructed in said lots, a building seventy-five (75) by ninety (90) feet, with a stone foundation and brick superstructure, the upper story of which is to be furnished into a hall suitable for an opera or city hall, and to be twenty-two (22), feet between joists, said building to be completed on or before the first day of August, A. D. 1873.

SEC. 2. And be it further ordained, that this ordinance, when accepted by the said H. Hallo, shall have the effect of a contract between the city of Lincoln and the said H. Hallo.

E. E. BROWN, Mayor.

Attest.

THOMAS J. CANTLON, Clerk.

Be, and the same is hereby declared to be legal.

SEC. 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from To take effect. and after its passage.

Approved, February 25, 1875.

AN ACT

To provide for the sale of lots in the city of Lincoln

Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Nebraska:

Lincoln to be

SECTION 1. That it shall be, and it is hereby made the Unsold lots in duty of the governor, auditor, and secretary of state, to sold, appraise all of the unsold lots belonging to the state and

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