year 1868, and at the time and in the same manner as other city taxes are levied, assessed and collected for said year, and in addition to the amount now by law authorized to be raised by taxation for ward purposes in said eighth ward of said city, a tax of eight hundred ($800) dollars upon all the property, real and personal, liable to taxation in said ward for said city.

SECTION 2. Said amount when collected by the city To whom paid. treasurer shall be paid to Thomas Crandall, Joseph Vogt and others who contributed in the year 1867 the amount of eight hundred dollars, for the construction of a brick sewer on first avenue in the said eighth ward.

SECTION 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved February 14, 1868.

CHAPTER 65.

AN ACT to authorize and confirm the purchase by the Milwaukee and St. Paul railway of the railway property, rights and franchises of Milwaukee and Prairie du Chien railway company, and to make effectual the securities and instruments connected therewith.

The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:

firmed.

SECTION 1. The purchase by the Milwaukee and Purchase conSt. Paul railway company of the railway property, rights and franchises of the Milwaukee and Prairie du chien railway company, and also the sale and conveyance of the same by the said last mentioned company, are hereby authorized, ratified and confirmed, and all bonds and stock, and all deeds of trust or mortgage, and all other instruments executed, or which shall be executed or delivered by or on behalf of the said Milwaukee and St. Paul railway company, or by or on behalf of the said Milwaukee and Prairie du Chien railway company, to carry out the terms of such purchase or for any purpose thereof, are hereby declared and made to be valid and effectual in all respects for the purposes and

according to the terms therein expressed: provided, Issue of bonds that the execution or delivery of such bonds, deeds or

must be approved by directors.

instruments, executed or to be executed or delivered,
by or on behalf of the said Milwaukee and St. Paul
railway company has been or shall be authorized or ap-
proved by the board of directors thereof and that the
execution or delivery of any conveyance or other in-
strument executed or to be executed or delivered by or
on behalf of the said Milwaukee and Prairie du Chien
railway company to carry such sale into effect, has been
or shall be authorized or approved by a majority in in-
terest of each class of the preferred and common stock
holders thereof.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
Approved February 15, 1868.

Amended.

CHAPTER 66.

[Published February 26, 1868.]

AN ACT to amend chapter twenty (20,) private and local laws of 1868, entitled "an act to incorporate the city of Fond du Lac," &c.

The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. Chapter twenty (20), private and local laws of 1868, shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Approved February 15, 1868.

CHAPTER 67.

AN ACT to provide for an abstract of tax sales in the county of
Waupaca.

The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate
and assembly, do enact as follows:

to procure books.

SECTION 1. It shall be the duty of the clerk of the Clerk of board board of supervisors of the county of Waupaca, state of Wisconsin, to procure suitable books at the expense of said county of Waupaca, and to get up and manitain therein an abstract of tax sales and to post and note therein all sales made by said county of Waupaca for taxes each year, commencing with the sale for the year 1862, and to note in a conspicuous manner all deeds, redemptions, &c. And as a compensation for such ser- Compensation vices, the said clerk of the board shall be paid the sum of five cents for each tract entered in such abstract for each year, to be paid from the county treasury and which amount shall be over and above his regular salary: provided, that the amount for which said county shall be liable, shall not exceed the sum of six hundred dollars for the services of said clerk for making said abstract of tax sales up to and including the sale of

1867.

SECTION 2. Whenever redemptions are made or Additional fe deeds for taxes executed, there shall be added to the

fee now authorized by law for the same the sum of five cents for each tract so redeemed or deeded.

SECTION 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Approved February 15, 1868.

Corporators.

Name.

Powers and franchises.

CHAPTER 68.

AN ACT to incorporate the "Germania" of the city of Milwaukee.

The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. Albert B. Geilfus, Otto Peuser, John Cremer, August Luering, Paul Yabel, Charles Buetow, A. C. Yinn, Otto Thling, Paul Biersac, Chas. L. Kiewert, August Oster, A. F. Sauer, Julius Meiswinkel, Jacob Singer, F. Wm. Goetz, who for the purpose of encouraging and promoting the study of fine arts, of maintaining a library, instituting lectures, and providing other literary exercises of a moral and intellectual nature by means of debates, declamatory and musical exercises, &c., have united themselves into an association, are hereby created a body corporate and politic by the name of the "Germania" of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and by that name to remain with their associates and successors in perpetual succession, for the purposes above specified.

SECTION 2. The said association shall have power to establish for its government a constitution and such by-laws, rules, orders and regulations, not inconsistent with the constitution and laws of this state, as may be necessary for the management of the affairs of the said association, to take by purchase, gift, grant or devise, and hold, transfer and convey real and personal prop erty not exceeding in value twenty-five thousand dol lars, and further to contract and be contracted with, to sue and be sued, to implead and be impleaded, to answer and be answered unto, in all courts of this state, to have and use a common seal, and to alter the same at pleasure, to make such contracts and agreements with any person or persons, copartnership, corporation or body politic of any kind as said association shall deem necessary in order to enable them to carry out May borrow and the objects of said association; and they are hereby further authorized in their corporate capacity to borrow and loan any sum or sums of money not exceeding the sum of twenty thousand dollars, from or to any person or persons, copartnership, corporation or body politic of any kind, and to make and execute in their corpo

loan money.

rate name all necessary writings, notes, bonds or other papers, and make, execute and deliver such securities in amount and kind as may be deemed expedient by said corporation not exceeding the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars, and shall be vested with all the powers and priviliges necessary to carry out and fulfill the objects of this corporation; and the official acts of said corporation are declared binding in law and equity upon said corporation and upon all other parties to such contracts.

SECTION 3. The members of this association shall Further powers have further power to assemble at such times and places

as may be agreed upon, and they shall be authorized
to elect a board of directors to consist of the follow-
ing officers: president, vice president, first secretary, officers.
second secretary, treasurer, librarian, and trustees, three
in number, all of whom shall be elected semi-annually
to their respective offices by such members as shall, by
the rules and regulations of this association, be entitled
to vote at such election.

SECTION 4. The control and disposal of the funds, Board of property and estate, and the direction and management directors. of all the business and exercises of the said association under such directions and restrictions as may be imposed by the rules and regulations thereof, shall be vested in the board of directors so elected as aforesaid, and all real and personal property, funds or securities now held or hereafter acquired by the present officers of said association, or by either or any of them as such officer, or by any other person or persons in trust for said association, or for the use or benefit of the same, including all debts due or to become due to the same from the members thereof, for stated dues in arrears, fines or otherwise, or from any other person or persons, shall vest and become the property of and may be sued for and recovered in the name of said corporation hereby created.

SECTION 5. It shall be lawful for said corporation May require to prescribe the powers and duties of the board of di- bonds. rectors, and to require bonds for the faithful perform

ance thereof, in such penal sum and with such sureties as they may choose.

SECTION 6. It shall be the duty of the secretary to Duty of secre keep a record of all proceedings that shall take place at tary. the meetings of said corporation, and to copy all the