May construct bridge. SECTION 3. Said corporation shall have power and is hereby authorized to construct and maintain a bridge across the Winconsin river, from Boscobel in Grant county, to some point in Crawford county, the the precise locality to be determiued by the board of Dimensions of directors. The said bridge shall not be less than sixteen feet in width, with strong railings at the sides, and shall be constructed and maintained in a safe and substantial manner for the passage of teams, animals and Not to obstruct foot passengers, and shall not in any manner interfere with or obstruct the full navigation of the Wisconsin river or the running or rafting of logs or lumber. bridge. navigation. Capital stock. May open books for subseription of apitalstock. When meeting may be called. SECTION 4. The captial stock of said company shall not exceed thirty thousand dollars in shares of fifty dollars each; and said corporators or a majority of them, are hereby authorized to receive subscriptions to the capital stock of said company, and may open books for subscription at such times and places as they, or a majority of them may direct, until said sum or such an amount as they may deem necessary to secure the completion of said bridge shall be taken, which stock shall be payable in such manner as may be prescribed by a majority of said corporators, in the contract of subscription. SECTION 5. Whenever one hundred shares of said captial stock shall have been taken as provided in section four of this act, a majority of said corporators may upon ten days' notice conspicuously posted in writing in some public place in the village of Boscobel, in the county of Grant, call a meeting of the stockholders, specifying time and place, who shall be authorized to elect five of their number to be the first difirst directors. rectors of the company, and said directors so elected sbal! immediately enter upon the managment of the business of the company as elsewhere provided in this Who shall be Shares personal property and transferable. act. SECTION 6. The shares of the capital stock of said corporation shall be personal property, and transferable on the books of the company, but no stock shall be transferable while the holder is indebted to the company except by the unanimous consent of the directors, and the directors may receive subscriptions to the capital stock in such amounts as they may deem to be for the interest of the company, never exceeding in the aggregate the sum of thirty thousand dollars. They may receive pay for such stock in such manner and time by instalments or otherwise as they may see fit, and may forfeit and sell any stock upon which any instalment may be due and unpaid, such sale to be at publie auction and to the highest bidder, ten days' notice of such sale having been given by posting notices in three public places in the village of Boscobel; and if there be any excess from proceeds of such sale over and above the amount of such unpaid instalments, costs and expenses of sale, it shall be paid to the person in whose name the stock stood upon the books before the forfeiture. Directors may unpaid stock. forfeit and sell When bridge to and when fin be commenced ished. May collect SECTION 7. The corporation hereby created is allowel until the first day of January 1870, in which to commence, and the first day of January 1872, in which to complete the construction of the bridge as provided in section three of this act; and whenever said bridge is completed it shall be lawful for the company to demand and collect tolls for passing over said bridge as tolls. follows: for any vehicle drawn by two animals, twenty- Rates of tolls. five cents; for any vehicle drawn by one animal, fifteen cents; for a single animal and rider, ten cents; for horses, mules, or cattle in droves exceeding ten in number, three cents each; for such animals in smaller droves, five cents each; for hogs or sheep in droves, two cents each; for foot passengers, five cents each. The rates of toll allowed by this act shall be kept conspicuously posted at each end of said bridge. payment of ulently pass over the bridge authorized by this act to tolls. shall be a quorum to transact or direct business, and compensation of such officers. wise the provisions of this act are hereby repealed. force from and after its passage and publication. Amended. CHAPTER 28. [Published March 18, 1868.] AN ACT to amend section one of chapter 325 of the private and local laws of 1867, entitled "an act for the preservation of fish in certain lakes and streams in the county of Waukesha." The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Section one, chapter 325, of the private and local laws of 1867, entitled "an act for the preservation of fish in certain lakes and streams in the county of Waukesha," is hereby amended by striking out all of section one of said chapter, and inserting the following: No person or persons shall draw or use any spear, seine or net, in the waters of any of the lakes and streams in the towns of Summit, Oconomowoc and Delafield, in the county of Waukesha, or connected therewith, in the county of Jefferson, or use any other thing except hooks and lines, for the purpose of taking or catching fish therein or therefrom: provided, that this shall not apply to the use of any scoop-nets for taking minnows for bait for the catching of fish with the hook. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved February 8, 1868. CHAPTER 29. [Published March 18, 1868.] Time extended. AN ACT to extend the time for collecting the taxes in the county of Clark. 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 in the county of Clark is hereby extended until the first Monday in July next: provided, this act shall not affect CHAPTER 30. AN ACT to authorize the state superintendent of public instruction to apportion school moneys to the towns of Monroe and Strong's Prairie, in the county of Adams. The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. The state superintendent of public in Shall apportion struction in apportioning the income of the school fund school fund. in the year 1868, shall apportion to the towns of Monroe and Strong's Prairie, in the county of Adams, the amount the said towns would have been entitled to if joint school district number one therein had maintained a school for five months during the year ending August 31st, 1867. full sum. SECTION 2. The town clerks of the said towns of Town clerks Monroe and Strong's Prairie shall, during the year 1868, shall apportion apportion to joint district number one thereof the full sum of money said district would have been entitled to if the annual report of the clerk of said district for the year 1867 had shown that a school had been maintained therein by a qualified teacher for five months during the year covered by said report. SECTION 3. This act shall take effect and be in force. from and after passage and publication. Approved February 8, 1868. 1 Corporators. CHAPTER 31. AN ACT to incorporate the Oconomowoc agricultural, mechanical and stock association. The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. J. A. Henshall, A. M. Bruce, D. McL. Miller, D. H. Rockwell, D. W. Small, D. McArthur, A. J. Rockwell, Thomas Chandler, Jacob Weltner, E. W. Barnard, E. Wing, C. H. Hartwell, Samuel Breck, William Wentworth, C. Eastman, A. B. Hall, Lewis F. Rowell, and George A. Winton, and their associates and successors are hereby constituted a body corporate Name and ob- by the name and style of the Oconomowoc agricultural, mechanical and stock association, for the purpose of promoting improvements in all the various departments of agriculture, including not only the great staples of industry and trade, but also fruits, vegetables and ornamental gardening; for the promotion of the mcchanic arts in all their various branches; for the improvement of the race of all useful domestic animals, and for the general advancement of rural economy and household manufactures. jects. Powers and Officers-their SECTION 2. The corporation hereby created may have a common seal and change the same at pleasure; may by their corporate name sue and be sued; may contract, and may acquire by purchase or otherwise. lands not exceeding one hundred acres, and may improve or sell the same or any part thereof at pleasure, and may acquire, hold and dispose of such personal property as the president and directors of said association may deem proper, and may in their corporate name do all other acts not inconsistent with the constitution and laws of this state, which the president and directors of said association shall vote to do. SECTION 3. The officers of said association shall term or once. be a president, a vice-president, a treasurer, a secretary election and and a board of directors consisting of three members; they shall be elected annually, in such manner as may be provided by the by-laws of said association, and shall hold their offices until their successors shall be elected and qualified. |