Chap. 3. tod. An Act for the relief of the County of Iowa. THE People of the State of Wisconsin represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. The Secretary of State is hereby authorized and Arrearage tax required, on his being furnished with satisfactory proof by the es, &c., remit- Supervisors of the county of Iowa, to certify the amount now standing against said county for arrearage of taxes, that has resulted from double assessment and taxation of property in said county, and the State Treasurer is hereby required to credit the amount so certified to the county of Iowa. MOSES M. STRONG, Speaker of the Assembly, SAMUEL W. BEALL, Lt. Governor, and President of the Senate. Approved, January 21, 1850. NELSON DEWEY. Chap. 4. sessors. An Act to provide for the assessment and collection of the taxes for the year 1849, in the town of Koskonong. THE People of the State of Wisconsin represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. The supervisors of the town of Koskonong, in To appoint as the county of Jefferson, are hereby authorized to appoint, by warrant under their hands, any number of persons not exceeding five, to make an assessment of the taxable property in said town, who shall, previous to entering upon their duties, severally take and subscribe the oath prescribed by law to be taken and subscribed by town assessors. to be made. SECTION 2. The persons so appointed and qualified, shall Assessment to thereupon immediately proceed to ascertain and assess the value of the taxable property in said town, and complete, review, correct, and certify the assessment roll thereof, in the manner prescribed by an act to provide for the assessment and collection of taxes, passed at the January session of the legislature of the State of Wisconsin in 1849, and shall deliver the same to the town clerk of said town. To be valid. When to be completed. SECTION 3. The said assessment roll, when completed and delivered as aforesaid, shall be of equal validity to, and shall have the same force and effect to all intents and purposes, of an assessment roll of said town, made, corrected and delivered, to the town clerk thereof, within the times and in the manner prescribed by said act. SECTION 4. The time for the completion and review of said roll shall be the eighteenth day of February, eighteen hundred and fifty, at ten o'clock, A. M. The time for the delivery of a copy of the assessment roll, with the warrant annexed, to the treasurer of said town, is hereby extended to the twenty-fifth day of February, eighteen hundred and fifty, and the time for the pay ment of the state and county taxes apportioned to said town, is ex tended to the twenty fifth day of March, eighteen hundred and When taxes to fifty, and the town clerk and treasurer of said town, are hereby be paid. invested with all the powers necessary by law, for making out and collecting the town, county, and state taxes within the time above specified. SECTION 5. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. MOSES M. STRONG, Speaker of the Assembly, SAMUEL W. BEALL, Lt. Governor, and President of the Senate. Approved, January 22, 1850. NELSON DEWEY. An act to change the terms of the Circuit Courts herein named. THE People of the State of Wisconsin represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: Chap. 5. SECTION 1. The terms of the Circuit Court in the third judi- Third Circuit. cial circuit, shall be holden at the times and places following, that is to say: In the county of Portage, on the last Monday in February, and the first Monday in September in each year. In the county of Sauk, on the first Monday in March, and the second Monday in September in each year. In the county of 'Marquette, on the second Monday in March, and the third Monday in September in each year. In the county of Columbia, on the third Monday in March, and the fourth Monday in September in each year. In the county of Dodge, on the fourth Monday of March, and the first Monday in October in each year. In the county of Washington, on the second Monday in April, and third Monday in October in each year. Second Cir. SECTION 2. That the terms of the Circuit Court in the second judicial circuit, in the following named counties, shall be holden cuit. at the times and places following, that is to say: In the county of Milwaukee, on the second Monday in February, the first Monday in May, and the third Monday in September in each year. In the county of Dane, on the first Wednesday after the second Monday in April, and the second Monday in October in each year. SECTION 3. The persons drawn to serve as petit jurors for the several Circuit Courts in the third and fourth judicial circuits, Petit jurors to shall be summoned to appear before said courts, at or before the be summoned. hour of eleven o'clock, A. M. on the first day of the terms thereof. SECTION 4. All writs, summons, indictments, recognizances, and other proceedings, made returnable by any law of this state now in force to the terms of the several circuit courts mentioned Writs &c., when returna. ble. When act to take effect. in this act, shall be returnable to the terms of said courts as the same are hereinbefore fixed; and all adjournments, appearances, continuances, motions, and notices of any proceedings in said courts, made or taken to any term of a date subsequent to the term when this act shall take effect, shall be held to be made and taken for the time hereinbefore fixed for holding the terms of said courts. SECTION 5. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its publication, and all laws now in force incompatible with the provisions hereof, are hereby repealed. The Secretary of State is hereby directed to cause this act to be published in some newspaper printed in Madison, at as early a day as possible. MOSES M. STRONG, SAMUEL W. BEALL, Speaker of the Assembly, Lt. Governor, and President of the Senate. Approved, January 24, 1800. NELSON DEWEY. Chap. 6. An Act to change the name of the village of Minersville, in lowa county. Name chang ed. THE People of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. That the village of Minersville, situate on the south-west quarter of section twenty-seven, township six, north of range three east of the fourth principal meridian, as surveyed, laid out, and recorded in the county of Iowa, shall hereafter be called and known by the name of "Maddin's addition to the village of Dodgeville." THE People of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. That the several state officers, the boards of public When officers, works, and the regents of the University, who are now required &c., to report. by law to report annually to the legislature, be, and they are here. by required to report through the executive. SEC. 2. All such reports shall be presented to the governor on or before the first Monday of January in each year. MOSES M. STRONG, Speaker of the Assembly. SAMUEL W. BEALL, Lt. Governor and President of the Senate. Approved January 24th, 1850. NELSON DEWEY. An Act to lay out a state road from the town of Franklin, in the county of Iowa, Chap. 8. to town ten, range five, in the county of Crawford. THE People of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Commissioners That John Combs, Burrill, McIney, and James D. Gray be and are hereby appointed commissioners to lay out and appointed. establish a state road beginning at Franklin, in the county of Iowa, running on the nearest and best ground to Comb's ferry, on the Wisconsin, thence on the best and most practicable route to Gay's mill on the Kickapoo, thence on the nearest and best route to intersect with the Black river road, leading from Prairie du Chien to the Falls of Black River, on section 25, in town 10, north, range 5, west. &c, SEC. 2. The commissioners appointed under the provisions of Compensation, this act, shall, upon the performance of the work, be entitled to such compensation for their services, as the supervisors of the counties where such services are performed, shall deem just and proper: Provided, That neither of said counties shall be required to pay for the expense of survey and laying out of said road more than fifty dollars. MOSES M. STRONG, Speaker of the Assembly. SAMUEL W. BEALL, Lt. Governor and President of the Senate. Approved January 24th, 1850. NELSON DEWEY. An Act to appropriate to Peter Burns the sum therein named. THE People of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: Chap. 10. SECTION 1. There is hereby appropriated, to be paid out of Peter Burns. any money in the treasury, to Peter Burns, the sum of four hun dred and twenty dollars, in full for services as commissioner in locating state lands. MOSES M. STRONG, Speaker of the Assembly. SAMUEL W. BEALL, Lt, Governor and President of the Senate. Approved January 26th, 1850. NELSON DEWEY. Chap. 11: An Act to amend an act entitled an act to incorporate the village of Sheboy gan, and to vacate a part of the plat of said village. THE People of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. The limits of said village shall be so extended as Boundary of to include all piers or wharves extending into Lake Michigan in village. said village; and the trustees thereof shall have and may exercise the power to pass ordinances or by-laws regulating the construction of all piers, wharves, or docks, in said village, and to prescribe and regulate the prices to be charged for pierage, wharfage, or dockage thereon; and all streets and alleys of said village, north of the north line of Huron street, west of the west line of Twelfth street, and west of the east line of Spruce street, and south of the south line of Kentucky street, are hereby declared vacated and discontinued: [Provided, This act] shall not be construed to alter or change the corporate limits of said village. SEC. 2. The annual compensation of the treasurer of said Compensation village shall not exceed five per cent. of the tax levied upon the and duty of property of the same, to be paid quarterly from the treasury, treasurer. and he shall pay all moneys which may be collected by virtue of any law, or which may arise from any source, and come into his hands by virtue of his office, into the treasury of said corporation. SEC. 3. The trustees of said village shall receive no compensation for their services. SEC. 4. The compensation of the clerk of said village shall not exceed fifty dollars per annum. SEC. 5. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. MOSES M. STRONG, Speaker of the Assembly, SAMUEL W. BEALL, Lt. Governor and President of the Senate: Approved January 26th, 1850. NELSON DEWEY. |