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440 . 4. Should any of the above-named commissioners fail to serve, those serving shall have power to appoint substitutes, whose duties shall be the same as herein given to the other commissioners.

. 5. The expenses incurred in the surveying, marking, and establishing of said roads, shall be paid gratuitously by those interested in the establishment of the same.

. 6. After the said roads shall be surveyed and located, it shall be the duty of the surveyor of said roads, on or before the first day of December next, to file, in the office of the register of deeds of each county through which said road or roads may pass, a plat of so much of said road as passes through said county.

. 7. This act to take effect from and after its passage.
 * Approved April 10, 1862.

W. JAYNE, Governor.

1. That John Stanage, Austin Cole, and Hugh Compton, be and are hereby appointed commissioners to locate, mark, survey, and establish a territorial road from Yankton by the way of Vermilion, Elk point, and Willow post-office, thence diverging, one branch to terminate at a point on the Big Sioux river at or near the dwelling-house of John McBride in section 22, in township 89, north of range 48 west, and the other branch of said road to terminate at a point on the Big Sioux river at or near the dwelling-house of Austin Cole and F. M. West in section 2, in township 89, north of range 48 west.

. 2. The said commissioners, or a majority of them, shall meet at the town of Yankton on the first Monday of