library association of Manitowoc," and by that name to remain in perpetual succession for the purpose of establishing and maintaining a library and literary society and reading room, instituting literary and scientific lectures and providing other means of moral and intellectual improvements.

SECTION 2. The corporation hereby created may in Powers. its corporate name acquire, take, hold, transfer and convey real and personal property and estate to the amount of fifty thousand dollars, and further to take, hold and convey all such books, cabinets, library furinture and apparatus as may be necessary for the attaining of the objects and carrying into effect the purposes of said corporation.

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of office.

SECTION 3. The business of the association hereby Board of direccreated, shall be under the direction and management tion and term of a board of nine directors who shall be divided by lot into three classes, who shall hold office for one, two and three years respectively, when first chosen; and each year thereafter three directors shall be chosen to serve for the term of three years, to supply the vacancies caused by the expiration of the term of service of directors in each year, which said board of directors shall be elected by the members of the corporation who shall not be indebted thereto.

board.

SECTION 4. The board of directors shall annually Officers of the elect from their own number a president, vice-president, secretary and treasurer of the association; shall make rules and by-laws for the management of the business of the association, and shall transact such other business as may fall within the objects of the association.

SECTION 5. The first meeting of said association First meeting. shall be held, pursuant to a call to be made by the persons named in the first section of this act, or a majority of such persons at such time and place, in the village of Manitowoc, as they shall designate, and said association shall, at such first meeting, proceed to elect a board of directors to hold their offices as provided in the 3d section of this act. At said first meeting, all who entitled persons shall be entitled to vote who have paid to the corporators named in the first section of this act, for the purposes of the association, a sum not less than four dollars, and such sums of money as shall be paid to said corporators for the purposes aforesaid shall be

to vote.

Annual meet

ing.

By-laws.

Privileges of members.

Persons not members may have use of library.

Constitution to remain in force till amended.

How funds to be used.

Notice of annual meeting.

credited to the persons so paying the same upon the organization of said association.

SECTION 6. An annual meeting for the choice of directors and the transaction of other business shall be held on the 2d Wednesday of January in each year, and special meetings at the call of the board of direc It shall be the duty of the board of directors to call special meetings at any time on the written request of six members of the board of directors.

tors.

SECTION 7. The by-laws of this association shall prescribe the conditions of membership.

SECTION 8. The members of the association shall be entitled to the use of the library and reading room upon condition of their paying such taxes as may be assessed by the association.

SECTION 9. Persons who are not members of the association may enjoy the use of the library and reading room on such terms as may be fixed by the board of directors from time to time.

SECTION 10. The constitution and by-laws of this said association as far as they are consistent with the provisions of this act, and not inconsistent with the constitution and laws of this state or the United States, shall continue in force as the rules and regulations of the corporation hereby created until the same shall be legally altered or amended.

SECTION 11. The estate, property and funds of the said corporation shall be devoted solely to the general purposes and objects specified in the first section of this

act.

SECTION 12. Notice of each and every annual meeting shall be given by publishing the same at least three weeks successively prior to said meeting in a newspaper printed and published in the village of Manitowoc, which notice shall be given by the secretary of said association, specifying the time and place of holding such annual meeting; and notice of special meetings shall be given as the board of directors may in their rules direct.

SECTION 13. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Approved February 21, 1868.

CHAPTER 95.

[Published March 18, 1868.]

AN ACT to extend the time for the collection of taxes in Ocon

omowoc.

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

SECTION 1. The time for the collection of taxes in the town of Oconomowoc, Waukesha county, is hereby extended until the twenty-eighth day of March, 1868.

SECTION 2. The treasurer of said town of Oconomowoc shall have the same power and authority to collect the taxes contained in said town tax roll, after as before such extension of time for the collection of said taxes, and the return of the said town treasurer to the county treasurer of said county within the time limited for the collection of taxes in this act shall be as valid as if made pursuant to the direction of the original warrant.

SECTION 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved February 21, 1868.

Time extended.

CHAPTER 96.

AN ACT to incorporate the "Pittsburg and Wisconsin mining company".

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

William Corporators.

SECTION 1 That Curtis G. Hussey, B. Hayes, William Dillworth, jr. Edgar Cowan, Gustaves Stoy, Richard Coulter, Lucien F. Gaylord, William D. Smith, Samuel Harnnett, Wallace Pratt, Alpha C. May and John B. Turley, their associates, successors and assigns are hereby created a body corporate and politic by the name and

Name and powers.

Objects.

Organization.

Rules and bylaws.

Stock divided into shares.

style of "Pittsburg and Wisconsin mining company," and by that name shall have perpetual succession and be able and capable in law to have and use a common seal and the same to alter and renew at pleasure, to contract and be contracted with, to sue and be sued, to implead and be impleaded, and to do all such other acts as are incident to a corporation.

SECTION 2. The object of said corporation shall be the mining, smelting and manufacturing of lead and other metals, said corporation shall have power to purchase, hold and convey real and personal estate.

SECTION 3. The first organization of the corporation shall be had at such time and place as shall be agreed upon by a majority of the corporators named in the first section of this bill.

SECTION 4. The corporators at the first meeting for organization provided for in section three, and the stockholders at any general meeting thereafter shall have full power to ordain and establish all by-laws, rules and regulations not contrary to the constitution and laws of United States or of this state, which may be be necessary for the proper government of the corporation, and the same to amend, alter and amend at pleasure, and at all elections or meetings of the stockholders each stockholder shall be entitled to vote in person or by proxy, one vote for each share of stock then standing in his, her or their names upon the books of the company.

SECTION 5. Said corporation shall have authority to divide their stock into as many shares and also to increase the same and to provide for the sale and transfer thereof upon such terms and in such manner as they shall from time to time deem expedient.

SECTION 6. It is hereby declared that in the judgment of the legislature the objects of this corporation cannot be obtained under general laws.

SECTION 7. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Approved February 22, 1868.

CHAPTER 97.

AN ACT to incorporate the Saint Clara female academy.

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

powers.

SECTION 1. Emily Power, Albertie Duffy and Corporators. Magdalen Madigan and their associates and successors are hereby created a body corporate and politic, for educational purposes, by the name of "Saint Clara Name and female academy," and by that name to remain in perpetual succession with full power to sue and be sued, to acquire, hold and convey property, real and personal, and to make such by-laws as they shall judge necessary for the government of their academy, and to appoint all officers for the same.

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SECTION 2. The board of trustees of Saint Clara Board female academy shall consist of three members with power to increase the number to five, and three of such number shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business.

SECTION 3. The said female academy__shall be Location. located at Sinsinawa Mound, Grant county, Wisconsin, and the trustees of said academy shall have power to establish and maintain a branch in the county of La Fayette, in the state of Wisconsin, such branch to be styled the Saint Clara female academy and such branch shail be under the control and management of the trustees of said corporation.

estate.

SECTION 4. The female academy in its corporate May hold real name may hold real estate not to exceed the value of five hundred thousand dollars.

ation.

SECTION 5. The academy buildings, out houses, Buildings exchurch buildings, library, furniture, apparatus and empt from taxappertenances of said academy and its branch, together with sufficient land for academy purposes not exceeding forty acres at each place where the said academy and its branch may be located, shall be forever exempt from taxation.

SECTION 6. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Approved February 22, 1868.