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LAWS OF WISCONSIN.AN ACT To incorporate tho Wisconsin RiverNavigation Company.JJe it enacted by the Council and Jfottsj of iiefjreaentutivcs of the Territory if Wisconsin.See. 1. That John B. Dub ay, Abraham Brawly and Enoch G. Rean and such other persons as may hereafter subscribe stock in said company for tho purpose authorized in this act shall bo known in law and equity by the name of the Wisconsin River Navigation Company, and by said name shall have perpetual succession, may enter into contracts and be contracted with, sue and, be sued, plead and be impleaded, in all courts of J.tff and equity in this territory and may have a common seal and may alter it at pleasure.Sec. 2- That said company shall have power and right to erect a dam across tho Wisconsin river below the Little Bull Falls the same being on the south east quarter of section twenty-nine in town twenty-seven north ami range eleven east of the fourth principal meridian from the main cast shore to an island known by the name of John L. Mores island and of such weight as will raise the water on said falls as high as the present surface of the water above said falls at an ordinary, stage of water, and in soma suitable place in said dam there shall be a slide not less than sixty feet wide and not less than sixty feet long, or eight feet long for every one foot the dam is high.See. 3. The business of said company »hall be conducted under a board of three directors who shall ap-
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Madison Express
Madison, Wisconsin, US
Thu, Mar 20, 1845
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