CHAPTER 101.

AN ACT to incorporate the Ripon agricultural association.

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

SECTION 1. A. M. Skeels, W. B. Kingsbury, E. P. Corporators. Brockway, O. W. Kellogg, B. P. Mason, A. E. Bovay, A. Cook, D. P. Mapes, C. F. Wheeler, E. Manville, й. H. Mead, F. R. England, H. C. Hollenbeck and such other persons as have heretofore become associated with them under articles of association, and those who may hereafter be associated with them, and their successors are hereby constituted a body corporate by the name of "the Ripon agricultural association."

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SECTION 2. The object of the association is to jects. promote the interest of agriculture, stock growing and the mechanic arts.

SECTION 3. The corporation hereby created may Powers. have a common seal and change the same at pleasure, and may in its corporate name, sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, contract and be contracted with, and may purchase, hold, possess and convey real and personal estate for the purposes set forth in the foregoing section, and their fair grounds and fixtures thereon shall be exempt from taxation.

SECTION 4. The former acts of the persons named Former acts in section one of this act and those persons associated confirmed. with them under the former articles of association are hereby confirmed and declared to be binding upon the association incorporated by this act.

SECTION 5. The present directors and officers of Directors and the association shall be the directors and officers of officers. the association incorporated by this act, and shall hold their several offices respectively until the first Tuesday in January 1869, and on that day the first annual meeting of the association under this act shall be held. SECTION 6. On or before the day of the said first Annual meet annual meeting, the board of directors shall adopt and place upon the record book of the association, a code of by-laws for the government of the association and its officers, declaring the number thereafter to be elected, their official title, powers and duties, and all needful

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rules and regulations not inconsistent with the laws of this state, and until such by-laws are adopted, the rules heretofore adopted under the articles of association shall be observed. Any by-laws adopted by the board of directors may be altered or amended at any annual meeting of the association.

SECTION 7. The officers of the association shall have full jurisdiction and control of their fair grounds and shall have the same rights and powers to establish police and other rules and regulations, that state and county agricultural societies have by law.

SECTION 8. The stock of said association may (as heretofore) be owned and held in shares of twenty-five dollars each, and each share of full paid stock shall entitle the owner to one vote in the election of officers and determining questions at any meeting of the association, but no stockholder will be permitted to vote by proxy unless by unanimous consent of the members present at any meeting of the association.

SECTION 9. In the election of officers and determining questions, a majority of all the votes cast shall be required. A majority of the directors shall constitute a quorum at any meeting thereof and a majority vote of the members present shall determine all questions that may be voted upon at any such meeting.

SECTION 10. Notice of any annual meeting shall be published in a newspaper published in the city of Ripon, at least twenty days previous to the day of said meeting. Said notice shall give the time and place when and where said meeting is to be held, and if for any reason the meeting is not held on that day, it may be held another day not over sixty days thereafter, and in such case the same notice shall in like manner be published.

SECTION 11. All officers elected under this act shall hold their several offices for a term of one year and until others are elected to fill their places, except when removed by death or by acceptance of resignation, in which case the board of directors may appoint others to fill the vacancy.

SECTION 12. This act shall take effect from and after its passage

Approved February 22, 1868.

CHAPTER 102.

[Published March 18, 1868.]

AN ACT to extend the time for the collection of taxes in the county of Douglass.

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 county of Douglass is hereby extended until the fifteenth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight: provided, that this act shall not affect the collection and paying over [of] the state taxes for said

county.

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

Approved February 22, 1868.

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CHAPTER 103.

AN ACT to incorporate the "mission institute of the Germam reformed church" at the town of Herman, in the county of Sheboygan.

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

SECTION 1. Rev. H. A. Muchlmeier, Rev. Dr. S. Corporators. Bossard, Rev. S. T. Cluge, Rev. Prof. H. Kurtz, Rev. Max Stern, Rev. S. H. Klein, Rev. D. Zimmermann, Frederick Dorneier, and W. Kuhn and such other persons as now are or may hereafter from time to time become associated with them, are hereby constituted a body politic and corporate by the name of the "mission institute of the German reformed church," at the town powers. of Herman in the county of Sheboygan; and by that name to remain in perpetual succession, with full power to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded; to receive, acquire and hold property, real and personal, by

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bequest, donation or purchase, and to sell, dispose of and convey the same; to bave and use a common seal and to alter and renew the same.

SECTION 2. The said trustees shall annually elect a chairman, secretary and treasurer from among their number, and shall assign to them their respective business and duties.

SECTION 3. The trustees shall have power to appoint a president of the said institute, and professors, tutors and instructors, to have the immediate care and government of the students who shall be sent to and admitted into the said institute for instruction and education, according to such ordinances, rules and regulations as shall be made by the said trustees, and also to appoint and employ all other needful officers and ministers, and assign to them their respective business and duties; and also, from time to time, to make such ordinances, rules and regulations for the management and disposition of the land and other real estate, and of the chattels and moneys and other property at any time held or possessed by them, the said trustees, for the use of the said institute, and for the more orderly and conveniently performing and executing their trust and authorities hereby granted and committed to them, as they, the said trustees or their successsors, shall deem most fit and beneficial; and also to make all such ordinances, rules and orders, directing and appointing what books shall be publicly read and taught in said institute, and for the better government of said institute, and of the president, professors and students thereof, as they, the said trustees, think best for the general good of the same provided, that no such ordinance, rule or reg ulation shall be repugnant to the laws of the state, or the laws of the United States; and provided, that no such ordinance, rule or regulation shall have validity except as they are made by a major part of the said trustees regularly convened.

SECTION 4. The persons named in the first section of this act shall constitute the board of trustees of said institute, until their successors are respectively appointed and qualified as hereinafter provided.

SECTION. 5. The business of said corporation shall be managed by a board of trustees, to consist of nine members of said corporation. Said board of trustees shall have power to fill any vacancies that may occur

in their own number by death, resignation or neglect to attend to the duties of such trustees for the space of one year. Five members of said board shall constitute a quorum, and a less number may adjourn from time. to time. The said trustees shall be elected by ballot by the members or stockholders of their own number, at their regular annual meeting held in the town of Herman. Their first election shall take place on the second Wednesday of June, A. D. 1868, at a meeting called for that purpose by the present board of trustees or a majority thereof, and notice of such meeting shall be given to the members of said institute at least ten days previous to said meeting; and if from any cause said meeting cannot be held at said time, from want of proper notice or orther reason, then the same may be called and held at any time within the three months next after said mentioned day, upon notice given as above specified; and the subsequent annual meetings of said members shall be held at such times. and at such places as the board of trustees shall appoint.

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SECTION 6. The term of office of said trustees shall be Term of office, three years, one-third of whom shall be elected annually. and. The first board of trustees shall be divided by lot into three classes, at their first meeting after their election; the first class shall hold their offices one year, the second class two years and the third class three years; and the offices thus vacated shall thereafter be annually filled by an election for three years: provided always, that the trustees shall hold their offices until others are chosen and have qualified.

SECTION 7. Said corporation shall have power to carry on and conduct such preparatory department connected with said institute, as shall to them, the said board of trustees, seem best to promote the interest of said institute and the interest of education.

bership.

SECTION 8. The board of trustees of this corpora- May fix condition may fix and establish the conditions upon which tons of memany person may become and continue a member of such corporation, and entitled to vote at the election of its trustees, and may also establish honorary membership and life membership, under such conditions as they may deem proper.

SECTION 9. This act is hereby declared a public Public act. act; the same shall be favorably construed in all courts

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