of all records appertaining to such suits, any law to the contrary notwithstanding.

SEC. 3. The election for sheriff, coroners, judge of probate and clerk of the circuit court, of said county, shall be held on the first Monday of September next, at the places in the several precincts at which the last general election was held, and the returns of said election shall be made to the clerk of the board of county commissioners or supervisors as now or shall be prescribed by law for other elections: said clerk shall proceed to canvass the same and give a certificate of election as the law requires. The ter.n of office of said officers shall expire at the same time as if they had been elected at the last regular time for holding elections for county officers.

SEC. 4. It shall be the duty of the clerk of the board of county commissioners of said county to post up notices of this election in three public places in each precinct at least ten days previous to the time of holding the

same.

N. E. WHITESIDE,

Speaker of the Assembly.

JOHN E. HOLMES,

Lieut. Governor and President of the Senate.

Approved, July 31, 1848.

NELSON. DEWEY..

AN ACT to authorize the Governor to distribute the quota of arms to which Wisconsin is entitled from the General Gov ernment.

The people of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. The governor of this state is hereby authorized to disribute the quota of arms and military equipments which the state of Wis

consin may receive from the government of the United States under the provisions of the several acts of Congress providing for arming and equiping the whole body of the militia of the United States. He shall require the officers to whom such arms or equipments are distributed and delivered to execute to the state of Wisconsin a bond with two sufficient sureties to be approved by him in the penal sum, as near as may be, of double the value of said arms or equipments, conditioned for the sefe keeping and rede ivery of the same on the order of the governor.

N.. E. WHITESIDE,

Speaker of the Assembly.

JOHN E. HOLMES,

Lieut. Governor and President of the Senate..

Approved July 31, 1848.

NELSON. DEWEY.

AN ACT to pay Ernest F. Herzberg the sum therein mentioned: The people of the State of Wisconsin represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. There shall be appropriated and paid out of any money in the state treasury to Ernest F. Herzberg the sum of fifty dollars in full for translating the constitution adopted in convention at Madison February 1st. A D 1848, into the German language.

N. E. WHITESIDE,

Speaker of the Assembly.

JOHN E. HOLMES,

Lieut. Governor and President of the Senate.

Approved, July 31, 1848..

NELSON DEWEY.

AN ACT to appropriate to David Holt the sum therein named. The people of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. There is hereby appropriated to be paid out of the state treasury to David Holt postmaster the sum of four hundred and thirty five dollars being the amount heretofore directed to be set apart and reserved for the payment in part of the postage of the governor, lieutenant governor and members of the 'egis ature at the present session.

SEC. 2. The secretary of state is hereby authorized and directed to isste his warrant upon the treasury in favor of the said David Holt for the sum hereby appropriated.

N. E. WHITESIDE,
Speaker of the Assembly.

JOHN E. HOLMES,

Lieut. Governor and President of the Senate.

Approved July 31, 1848.

NELSON DEWEY.

AN ACT to authorize special Town Meetings in certain cases. The people of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. If from any cause any organized town of this state neglect or shall have he.etofore neglected or reiused to bold their annual town meeting or to elect town officers or to vote any tax authorized by law, the towne erk of said town or in case there sha'l be no such officer, then the cerk of the board of supervisors of said county shall in required by twenty leal voters, order a special town meeting to be holden in such town, giv ing at least ten days notice of the time and p ace of holding such e ection by

posting notices in three of the most public places in said town: and all proceedings had at such town meetings shall be as valid and effectual as if the same had taken place at the regular town meetings.

N. E. WHITESIDE,
Speaker of the Assembly.
JOHN E. HOLMES,

Lieut. Governor and President of the Senate.

Approved August 1, 1848.

NELSON DEWEY.

AN ACT to provide for levying and collecting State Revenue. The people of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and assembly, do enact as follows:

SEC. 1. For the purpose of raising a revenue there shall be levied and collected in each county of this state in accordance with the provisions of an act entitled “an act to provide the means to pay the public debt of the territory" approved February 24th 1845 a state tax of four and one half mills on the dollar valuation to be levied collected and paid into the state treasury in gold silver or auditors warrants hereafter issued by the time hereinafter provided.

SEC. 2. The supervisors of their respective counties are hereby authorized and required to hold a session of their respective boards on the second Monday, of September next: the county commissioners of their respective .counties are hereby authorized and required to hold a session of their respective boards on the second Monday of August next (inst.); at which session all county and state taxes shall be levied upon the assessment rolls for the present year and such other business transacted as might be done at any regular or annual meeting of the respective boards.

SEC. 3. It shall be the duty of the clerk of the boards of county com

missioners and supervisors in their respective counties to give notice elther by the publication in some newspaper of the county or personally to the commissioners or supervisors of the session required to be held by this act: Provided that if a majority of the board shall fail to attend the clerk shall adjourn the same from day to day until a majority shall be in attendance and provided further that if any clerk shall fail to receive notice of the provisions of this act before the time of said meeting, he shall con v ene the county board at the earliest possible time thereafter at which session they shall discharge the duties required by this act.

Sec. 4. Each and every county shall pay over to the state treasurer the amount authorized to be levied and collected by this act in their respective counties together with all arrearages due the state on former assessments, on or before the first day of February next, and in case any county shall fail to levy collect and pay over the amount required by this act it shall be the duty of the attorney general immediately upon being notified by the secretary of state to commence suit against each and every county sodelinquent for the recovery of the amount required to be collected and paid over as aforesaid.

Sxc. 5. It shall be the duty of the secretary of state immediately after the passage of this act to transmit a copy of the same to the clerk of every county in the state.

N. E. WHITESIDE,

Speaker of the Assembly.

JOHN E. HOLMES,

Lieutenant Governor and President of the Senate,

Approved, August 1st, 1848.

NELSON DEWEY.