Time extended. CHAPTER 122. [Published April 2, 1868.] AN ACT to extend the time for the collection of taxes in the town of Mukwa, Waupaca county. 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 Mukwa, Waupaca county, is hereby extended to the 25th day of March next, and the treas urer of said town shall have the same authority to collect the taxes therein and return the lands delinquent therefor up to the said 25th day of March as he now has within the period provided by law. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved February 27, 1868. CHAPTER 123. [Published April 2, 1868.] May correct assessment roll. AN ACT to allow the supervisors of the town of Maple Creek, Outagamie county to correct their tax and assessment roll for the year 1867. The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. The supervisors of the town of Maple Creek, Outagamie county, are hereby authorized to correct the assessment and tax roll for said town for the year 1867, by making out a new and complete tax roll of all lands and persons in said town liable to assessment for taxes for the year 1867. SECTION 2. The time for the collection and payment of taxes in said town is hereby extended until the first day of April, 1868. SECTION 3. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. Approved February 27, 1868. CHAPTER 124. [Published April 3, 1868.] AN ACT to legalize certain acts of the board of supervisors of the town of Shullsburg, in the county of La Fayette. The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. All the acts and doings of the board of Legalized. supervisors of the town of Shullsburg, in the county of La Fayette, in the state of Wisconsin, at a meeting held by said board on the 28th day of November, A.D. 1866, for the purpose of extending the boundary lines of school district number 6, by including and embracing school districts numbers two (2) and four (4) within said school district number 6 in said town, and to unite, consolidate all of said districts into one school district, called and known as school district number 6, are hereby legalized and confirmed and declared legal and valid for all the intents and purposes for which the same was held; and said school district number 6, so enlarged and established shall have the same validity and effect as though all the requirements of law were in all respects complied with, in regard to calling and conducting said meeting and establishing said district. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved February 27, 1868. CHAPTER 125. [Published April 3, 1868.] AN ACT to legalize the acts of a special meeting of school district No. 6, in the town of Shullsburg, in the county of La Fayette. The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. That all the proceedings of a special Legalized. school meeting of district number 6, in the town of Legalized. Shullsburg in the county of La Fayette, in this state, held on the 7th day of May A.D. 1867, and the adjournments of said meetings, and all the acts of said adjourned meetings, are hereby legalized and confirmed, and declared to be valid to all intents and purposes for which the same were held. SECTION 2. All of the acts of the officers of the said school district number 6, or a majority of them, and all the indebtedness in writing, denominated as bonds, issued or that may be issued in pursuance of said meeting, to the amount of ten thousand dollars, are hereby legalized and declared valid, and that the bonds so issued or may be issued as aforesaid by said officers of said school district to said amount in the hands of bona fide holders, shall be taken and held to be a legal and valid claim against said school district number 6, to all intents and for all purposes. SECTION 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved Feburary 27, 1868. Amended. CHAPTER 126. [Published February 29, 1868.] AN ACT to amend chapter 230 of the general laws of 1864, entitled "an act to incorporate the the village of Columbus." The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Part 3d, of section No. 18 of chapter No. 230 of the general laws of the year 1864, is hereby amended, so as to read as follows: "To license and regulate auctioneers and auction sales, the exhibition of common showmen or shows of any kind, or the exhibition of any natural or artificial curiosities, caravans, circuses or theatrical performances, also the sales of peddlers, within the village limits, under the ordinances or commonlaw." SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication. Approved February 27, 1868. CHAPTER 127. AN ACT to change the name of Mary Angie E. Woolf to Mary Angie E. Reed, and make her legal heir to David W. and Elizabeth D. Reed. The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. The name of Mary Angie E. Woolf, of Name changed. the town of Omro, county of Winnebago, in the state of Wisconsin, is changed to Mary Angie E. Reed, and she is hereby declared to be the legal heir of David W. Reed and Elizabeth D. Reed, of the above mentioned town, county and state. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved February 28, 1868. CHAPTER 128. AN ACT to amend an act entitled "an act to incorporate the approved March 15th, 1861, and the several acts amendatory thereof. The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Section two (2) of the said "act to Substituted. incorporate the Platteville and Calamine railroad company," approved March 15th 1861, is hereby repealed and the following is substituted for and declared to be section 2 of said act: The capital stock of said corporation shall be such sum, not less than three hundred thousand dollars, nor more than five millions of dollars, as shall be, in the opinion of the board of directors thereof, necessary and proper for the carrying into effect the objects named herein, and in the several acts amendatory hereof, and the said board of directors are Powers of dihereby authorized and empowerd to fix the said amount rectors. of capital stock, by resolution of said board of directors, at such sum, not less than three hundred thou Substituted. Appointment of sand dollars, as shall be sufficient to build the said railroad from Calamine to Platteville, and to increase the said amount of the capital stock of said corporation, in like manner from time to time, as in their opinion. shall be necessary and proper to erect, build and construct, lease or purchase any of the extensions or connections of said railroad, provided for in the several acts amendatory hereof, and said capital stock shall be divided into shares of one hundred dollars each. SECTION 2. Section 14 of the said act to incorporate the "Platteville and Calamine railroad company,' is hereby repealed, and the following is substituted therefor, and declared to be section 14 of said "act to incorporate the Platteville and Calamine railroad company," approved March 15th, 1861, that is to say: Whenever the line of said railroad shall be located and its route determined, the said company shall apply by attorney to the circuit court of any county in this state, through or into which it passes, or to the judge therecommissioners. of in vacation, for the appointment of three commissioners to make an appraisal and award of the value of any and all lands which are the private property of any person on the line of said railroad, and which the said company shall have entered upon, taken, possessed, occupied or used, or which it may thereafter enter upon, take, possess, occupy or use for any of the purposes for which by this act the said company is authorized to enter upon, take, possess, occupy or use lands. The said company shall give notice of its intention to apply for the appointment of such commissioners, by publishing the same at least ten days before the time for hearing such application, in at least one newspaper published in the county in which such lands shall lie; and upon an affidavit of the publication of such notice, the court or judge to whom the application shall be made, shall appoint three disinterested persons, not stockholders in said company, commissioners, who shall have cognizance of all cases arising under this section or the section for which this is substituted, arising on the line or route of said railroad, and they shall proExamination of ceed to examine the premises in each case separately, having first given such notice as they may deem reasonable, and at least five days' personal notice to such owner, if resident in the county; and whenever it shall appear to said company or its officers, that the premises. |