Attorney General ex rel. Longyear v. Weimer

On the third day of April, 1885, the Legislature passed “ An act to organize the county of Iron, and the townships of Bates and Mastodon, in said county of Iron.” See Act No. 35, p. 32, Laws 1885.

The act did not take effect until September 18, 1885.

The territory embraced within the limits of the proposed new county consists of 33J surveyed townships, and was detached from the counties of Marquette and Menominee. The larger part of this territory was, however, included in the three townships of Felch, Crystal Falls, and Iron River, in Marquette county, and were taken therefrom intact, .and…