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 16 COUNTIES.

CHAPTER XIV.

AN ACT FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF UNION COUNTY, TO LOCATE THE COUNTY SEAT OF THE SAME, [AND] LEGALIZE THE ACTS OF CERTAIN COUNTY OFFICERS OF COLE COUNTY.

Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Dakota:

Section 1. That the district of country embraced within the following described boundaries, shall be and is hereby declared to be the county of Union, to wit:

Commencing at the confluence of the Big Sioux with the Missouri river, and following up the main channel of said Missouri river to range line between fifty and fifty-one west; thence north on said range line to the northern boundary line of township ninety-five, north; thence east on said line to the Big Sioux river; thence down the main channel of said river to the place of beginning.

Sec. 2. And the county seat of Union county be and the same is hereby located on the point of the bluff on the southeast quarter of the northeast quarter of section twenty-nine, township ninety-two, north, range forty-nine, west.

Sec. 3. Nothing in this act shall interfere with the rights to seats in the Council, of M. M. Rich, J. O. Taylor, and John Mathers; but the county of Union shall constitute the first Council and Representative district, the same as the county of Cole did before the passage of this act.

Sec. 4. And the acts of William Frisbie, William Mathers, and John R. Wood, as county commissioners, M. M. Rich, register of deeds, and A. R. Phillips, judge of probate for the county of Cole, are hereby legalized.

Sec. 5. All acts and parts of acts in conflict with [the provisions of] this act are repealed.

Sec. 6. This act shall take effect from and after its passage.

Approved, January 7th, 1894.