directors shall SECTION 4. The president and directors aforesaid and President and their successors shall have the control and management control affairs of the official and other concerns of said association, of corporation. together with all its estate of every kind. SECTION 5. The said association shall have power Books may be to cause books to be opened for the subscription of opened. capital stock to said association at such times and places as they may deem best, and may cause the same May adopt con to be closed and re-opened at their pleasure. They shall have power to form such constitution and by-laws, nct stitution and inconsistent with the constitution and laws of this state by-laws. a may be adopted by a majority of the members of said association, and may from time to time modify and repeal the same at their pleasure. SECTION 6. This act shall be in force from and after its passage. Approved February 8, 1868. CHAPTER 32. [Published March 18, 1868.] AN ACT to legalize the proceedings of a school district meeting beld in school district No. 5, of the town of Viroqua, Oct. 7th, 1867, and to authorize said district to borrow money to build a school house in said district. The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. The proceedings of the adjourned Legalized. meeting, held in school district No. 5, of the town of Viroqua, in Vernon county, on the 7th day of October, 1867, authorizing the building of a school house in said district, and appointing D. B. Priest, Carson Graham and J. Henry Tate as a building committee to superintend the erection of the said school house, are hereby legalized and declared valid. bonds. SECTION 2. The directors of the said school district May issue are hereby authorized to issue the bonds or orders of the district for the sum of four thousand dollars, said orders or bonds to bear interest at a rate not exceeding ten per cent, per annum, the interest on said bonds to May vote tax. May make contracts. be paid annually. Said bonds or orders when so issued by the said board of directors, are to be placed in the hands of the said building committee, or such committe as may be hereafter appointed by the said school district, to be disposed of by said committee on the best terms possible for the interest of said district. Said bonds or orders shall be made payable in four equal annual payments. SECTION 3. The said school district is hereby authorized and empowerd at any annual or special meeting, hereafter held in said district according to law, to vote a tax sufficient to pay off the said bonds or orders as they may become due with the interest as aforesaid. SECTION 4. The said building committee are hereby authorized to make all contracts in the name and for the said district necessary to be made, and generally to supervise, manage and direct, and do all things necessary to be done in the erection and completion of the said building. SECTION 5. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved February 8, 1868. Legalized. CHAPTER 33. [Published March 18, 1868.] AN ACT to legalize the proceedings of school district number two, of the town of Marshall, county of Richland. The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. The tax of one hundred dollars voted for teachers' wages at a special school meeting held March 28th, 1867, in school district number two, in the town of Marshall, in the county of Richland, is hereby declared to be legal and vaild to all intents and purposes; and the district board elected at a special meeting, April 8th 1867, are hereby declared to be the legal district board of said district for the period of time for which they were elected. SECTION 2. The treasurer of said distret is hereby Treasurer may authorized and required to proceed to collect and make collect tax. legal returns of said tax of one hundred dollars, as set down on the tax roll of said district under date of April 6th, 1867, and signed by Wm. T. Blazer, district clerk; and the treasurer of said district shall collect and make legal returns on said tax roll before the first day of June, 1868; and if from any cause said tax shall not be so collected by said district treasurer, the town clerk shall place the said tax as set down on said district roll, on the next tax roll of the town to be colected by the town treasurer as other taxes for the benefit of said district. SECTION 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved February 8, 1868. CHAPTER 34. AN ACT to prevent the catching of fish in lake Horicon and to repeal chapter 48 of the local laws of 1867, entitled the protection of fish in lake Horicon." 66 an act for The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: take fish. SECTION 1. It shall not be lawful for any person Unlawful to to take fish from lake Horicom or its tributaries with seines, gill-nets or trap-nets. SECTION 2. Any person who shall violate the pro- Penalty for vio visions of section 1 of this act shall, upon conviction lation of this thereof, be punished by fine of not more than fifty dol ars and not less than ten dollars. act. SECTION 3. Justices of the peace shall have juris- Justices have diction to try and determine all cases arising under the provisions of this act. jurisdiction. SECTION 4. Chapter 48 of the local laws of 1867, Repealed. entitled "an act for the protection of fish in lake Hori con" is hereby repealed. SECTION 5. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved February 8, 1868. May settle with CHAPTER 35. [Published March 18, 1868.] AN ACT to authorize the board of supervisors in Rock county to settle a certain claim. The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. It shall be lawful for the board of supervisors of Rock county to settle and adjust the claim of J. W. Plato, of the city of Janesville, for injuries sustained on or about the 29th day of April, 1866, while performing his duty as constable in said. city. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved February 8, 1868. Unlawful to take fish. Penalty for violation of this act. CHAPTER 36. [Published March 18, 1868.] AN ACT for the preservation of fish in Beaver Dam lake. The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. No person or persons shall take, catch or kill any fish of any kind in the lake known as the Beaver Dam lake and Fox lake, in the county of Dodge, or in any of the streams, creeks or rivulets emptying into said lake, between the first day of April and the tenth day of May in any year. SECTION 2. Any person or persons convicted of the violation of the provisions of the preceding section shall be subject to a fine for each and every such offense of not more than ten dollars nor less than five dollars, and costs of prosecution, and shall stand committed to the county jail of Dodge county until such fine and costs are paid, one half of which fine shall be paid to the person making complaint of such violation, and the other half into the county treasury. SECTION 3. Justices of the peace shall have jurisdiction to try and determine all cases arising under the provisions of this act: provided, the defendant shall not be deprived of a jury trial, or of his rights of appeal as in other criminal cases. SECTION 4. This act is hereby declared to be a public act and shall be in force from and after its passage. Approved February 8, 1868. CHAPTER 37. [Published March 18, 1868.] AN ACT to authorize the county board of supervisors of the county of Green to erect a soldiers' monument. The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: ument. SECTION 1. The county board of supervisors of the May erect moncounty of Green are hereby authorized and empowered to erect in said county a suitable monument in commemoration of the soldiers of said county who died in the service of the United States in the rebellion of the year 1861, and to purchase a suitable site for said monument, and to improve and ornament the same as in their discretion seems desirable. SECTION 2. For the purpose of carrying into effect May levy tax. the objects specified in the preceding section, the said board are hereby authorized and empowered to levy a tax not exceeding one mill upon each dollar of all the taxable property in said county. SECTION 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication. Approved February 8, 1868. 4-P. & L. LAWS |