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Ierto of an idledretboro.!'0 H OCL-the licit-will far-save t alio [•TEE PROPER AND LEGAL SITE FOR OUR COURT-HOUSE.*For the Jralric du Cbfcti Leader, '. It is probably known to but few that the proper and legal site for tho Court House of this (Crawford) county is in the garrison, where the flagstaff now stands. But such iij the fact The proof:—By the second section of an act of the Legislative Council of tho Territory of Michigan, (to-which what is now Wiscon-consin then belonged,) entitled “An,act to establish the seats of justice within the counties of Brown and Crawford,” approved July 3d, 1S24, it is provided tl that the seat of justice of the county of Crawford shall be, and the same is hereby, established upon the Farm Lots, situated at Prairie du CUien, numbered thirty-four and thirty-five upon the map or sketch of the claims to lands at said place, submitted to the Commissioners in the year 1820,” (this is the plat found in Vol. 4 of the Pub. Land Documents,) “and entered in the names of Pierre Los sard and Strange Pore, or upon whichever of the said lots the three high mounds lying immediately below the village of St. Perreoie (so called) and above the lot claimed by Francis Lnpohit, senior, may be found to be situated when the boundary lines of said loU are run by the_ surveyor, or may be otherwise ascertained; and the county commissioners are hereby required to erect the court-house upon the highest or center mound of the said three mounds,” (this mound stood where the flagstaff now stands,) “and all the other public buildings of said county in the immediate vicinity thereof, whenever the person who is the owner of said mounds shall execute to the commissioners of said coun ty for the time being, for the use of said county, a quit-claim deed of a lot which shall include the said three mounds, bounded in front by a certain road leading from the village of St. Ferrcolc to tho 4 Old French Trading Fori/ (so'called,) and extending in the rear of said mounds thirteen rods.”These Farm Lots, ?A and 35, had been, previous to the passage of said net—that is to say, Fob. t:{ and 1824, conveyed by said Lessaul and Pore, or Powers, to James [. Doty, who, no doubt, drew up the bill, he then being a member of the Council; and, on the 2Sih day of August, JS34, said .Duty convoyed to the said county commissioners, i\lt; follows : after reciting the above act, and conveyance* to him. the instrument proceeds : “ fa consideration or Lhe said provisions contained in the act aforesaid, and for and in consideration of the probable increase in value of the lots aforesaid from the erection of the public buildings on the mounds before mentioned, and for divers other good and sufiicient considerations, I have bargained, sold, a [idq dt•churned,” 4* unto tho commission*u ml ! nrs of said conn tv of Crawford for the
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Prairie Du Chien Leader
Prairie Du Chien, Wisconsin, US
Sat, Jan 30, 1858
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