18-125.   Elk.All that portion of the county of Howard lying south of the townshipline separating township thirty-one and township thirty-two south shallconstitute the territory of a new county hereby created, to be known as thecounty of Chautauqua; and all that territory lying north of said townshipline is hereby erected into a new county by the name of Elk.

      History:   L. 1875, ch. 106, § 1; June 1; R.S. 1923, 18-125.