This act to take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved February 23d, 1857. Permanent seat of justice for Anderson county. COUNTY COMMISSIONERS. AN ACT to legalize the acts of the Board of County Commissioners of the county of Anderson. Be it enacted by the Governor and Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Kansas, as follows: SECTION 1. That the acts of the board of county commissioners of the county of Anderson, in locating, through a commission appointed for that purpose, the county seat of said county, be and the same is hereby legalized, and the permanent seat of justice of the said county of Anderson is hereby declared to be located at the town of Shannon, in said county. This act to take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved February 14th, 1857. Acts of probate judge, &c., hereby legalized. The bonds heretofore issued by said probate judge, &c., hereby declared valid. AN ACT legalizing the acts of Probate Judge and County Commissioners of Shawnee county. Be it enacted by the Governor and Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Kansas, as follows: SECTION 1. That all contracts and agreements heretofore made by and with the probate judge and county commissioners of Shawnee county, for the erection of the court-house in the town of Tecumseh, in said county, are hereby approved and affirmed. SEC. 2. The bonds or other evidences of indebtedness heretofore issued by said probate judge and county commissioners for or on account of the construction of said court-house, are hereby declared valid and binding upon said county; and the said probate judge and county commissioners are hereby authorized and empowered to renew any such bonds or evidences of indebtedness from time to time, or to issue others in such manner and on such terms as they may deem necessary or ad- This act to take effect from and after its passage. AN ACT defining the powers and duties of County Commissioners and other county officers in certain cases. Be it enacted by the Governor and Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Kansas, as follows: SECTION 1. Each commissioner's court in the territory of Kansas shall have power in their respective counties to audit, adjust and settle all accounts in which their counties shall be a party; to order the payment, out of the county treasury, of any sum of money found due by the county; to enforce the collection of all money due the county; to order suit to be brought on the bond of any delinquent; to issue all necessary process to secure the attendance of any person, whether party or witness, whom they may deem necessary to examine in the investigation of any account. SEC. 2. It shall be the duty of the several county tribunals above named, at the October term of said county, in each year, to ascertain the amount of money that has been paid into the county treasury as county revenue for the last twelve months; also, the amount of the debt of said county, and a detailed account of the receipts and expenditures of the same for the last twelve months; and shall strike a balance, showing the deficit, if and the balance in the treasury, if any. any, SEC. 3. The facts then ascertained, and the accounts and statements thus made out, shall be put on record in said courts, and copies of the same shall be put up in the most conspicuous place in each township of the county, by the sheriff, within three weeks after the adjournment of the term at which the proceedings above mentioned shall have been had. SEC. 4. When the court shall ascertain any sum of money to be due from their county, they shall cause their clerk to issue a Every warrant shall be drawn for the whole amount due. Of the payment of any warrant. Warrants are assignable. Compensation to clerks, &c. All acts inconsistent with this act hereby repealed. , pay to warrant therefor, which may be in the following form: "Treas- the court of commissioners. "Test: C. D., Clerk." day of 18 By order of "A. B., President. SEC. 5. Every such warrant shall be drawn for the whole amount found to be due to the person entitled to the same, and but one warrant shall be drawn for the amount allowed to any person at one time; and said warrants shall be numbered progressively throughout each year. SEC. 6. No county treasurer in this territory shall pay any warrant drawn on him unless such warrant be presented for payment by the person in whose favor such warrant is drawn, or by his assignee, or executor or administrator; and when presented for payment, if there be no money in the treasury for that purpose, the treasurer shall certify on the back of the warrant the date, and subscribe the same; and said warrant shall bear interest at the rate of six per cent. per annum, from the date of said certificate until paid. SEC. 7. All warrants drawn on the treasurer of any county shall be assignable, and nothing in this act contained shall be so construed as to prevent the collectors of the revenue from receiving such warrants in payment of county taxes. SEC. 8. The courts aforesaid shall allow to their clerks and SEC. 9. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with and con- Approved February 20th, 1857. Defendant may tender to plaintiff the amount of debt. TENDER AND CONFESSION. AN ACT concerning Tender and Confession. Be it enacted by the Governor and Legislative Assembly of SECTION 1. At any time before the sitting of the court to record or otherwise, the defendant may tender to the plaintiff or the plaintiff's attorney who brought the action, the amount in specie of the debt and costs, and such tender shall be a bar to any further costs in the proceedings in such case. SEC. 2. In any action the defendant may confess the plaintiff's action, or any part thereof, and that the plaintiff is entitled to recover certain real estate, or a certain amount of debt or damages, and plead to the residue of his claim; and if the plaintiff shall afterwards prosecute his action, and shall not recover more than is so confessed, the defendant shall recover his costs from the date of such confession. This act to take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved February 17th, 1857. In case the defendant confesses to the plaintiff's action or any part thereof. CONVEYANCES. AN ACT concerning Conveyances. Be it enacted by the Governor and Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Kansas, as follows: SECTION 1. That any deed of conveyance which shall be made and duly acknowledged, shall be understood to convey to the grantee as well all the right, title, interest and claim which the grantor had of, in and to the same at the time of such conveyance, as also all the right, title, interest and claim which the said grantor may at any time afterwards acquire of, in and to the real estate in any such deed of conveyance mentioned. SEC. 2. The receipt of the receiver of the land office of the United States shall be evidence of title in the holder thereof until the contrary be shown, and shall be sufficient proof, when produced, to sustain an action of ejectment, or any other action, or for any other purpose, where the title of the land shall come in question, as fully and absolute as if a patent had issued from the general land office of the United States. SEC. 3. All conveyances and transfers heretofore made of any land in this territory, prior to the issuing of a patent by the general government of the United States, and all conveyances made in this territory before titles were acquired from the general government, are hereby legalized; and all such con- This act to take effect and be in force from and after its Approved February 23d, 1857. Bank notes of a less denomina to be circulated. CURRENCY. AN ACT to prohibit the circulation of Paper Currency of a less denomi- Be it enacted by the Governor and Legislative Assembly of SECTION 1. That from and after the first day of July next, tion than $3 not if any person shall give, take, receive, pass, or circulate, as currency any bank bill, note, check, draft or scrip, of a less denomination than three dollars, whether issued by any bank in this territory or elsewhere, such person so offending for each offence shall be liable to prosecution before any justice of the peace, and, on conviction, shall forfeit and pay four times the amount of the bill, note, check, draft or scrip so circulated; one-half to go to the person prosecuting, and the other half into the county treasury, to be appropriated to school purposes; and all persons so offending shall be subject to indictment, and punished by fine not exceeding five hundred dollars. Approved February 20th, 1857. Costs of crimi nal offences to be COSTS. AN ACT to amend the eleventh article of an act entitled "An act concern- Be il enacted by the Governor and Legislative Assembly of SECTION 1. In case of all offences punishable by death or paid by the terri- confinement and hard labor, the costs shall be paid by the ter tory-when, |